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CON ESPRESSIONE
Towards Expressivity-aware Computer Systems in Music
Our Music & Expressivity Research in the Media
Since 2015 (receipt of ERC Grant)
- 2021-06-03: Article about our next ERC project (Whither Music?), opens an external URL in a new window in the The Economist, opens an external URL in a new window
- 2021-05-31: Extended interview with Gerhard Widmer, opens a file on computational music modelling and its limitations, in the Wiener Zeitung, opens an external URL in a new window [in German]
- 2021-05-04: Interview with Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window on computational music modelling, in the TMW-Zine, opens an external URL in a new window of the Technical Museum Vienna (TMW), opens an external URL in a new window [in German]
- 2019-06-27: On-line article on Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window in the Science Blog "Schrödingers Katze", opens an external URL in a new window of Universities Austria, opens an external URL in a new window
- 2019-03-21: Gerhard Widmer and our computational performance modelling research mentioned in an article on a Google Doodle, opens an external URL in a new window in the Washington Post, opens an external URL in a new window.
- 2019-03-14: Radio feature, opens an external URL in a new window reporting on our Music & Expressivity work in German radio station SWR 2, opens an external URL in a new window.
- 2018-09-07: Article on our AI & Music Pavillion, opens an external URL in a new window at the FWF BE OPEN Science & Society Festival, opens an external URL in a new window, produced by Austrian Newspaper "Die Presse".
- 2018-05-25: On-line article, opens an external URL in a new window in ERC=Science^2, opens an external URL in a new window ("Mind-blowing science, from the European Research Council") on our work on computational models of expressive music performance.
- 2017-03-21: Article in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, opens an external URL in a new window on Gerhard Widmer's appearance in the Kepler Salon Linz, opens an external URL in a new window.
- 2017-10-19: Article on the Con Espressione Project in the Slovenian newspaper DELO, opens an external URL in a new window: "Umetna inteligenca in glasba" ("Artificial Intelligence in Music"), opens an external URL in a new window
- 2017-10-14: Gerhard Widmer as studio guest in the main evening news of Slovenian public TV station RTV Slovenia, opens an external URL in a new window (via RTV Slo Archive, opens an external URL in a new window)
- 2016-04-16: Article in Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung, opens an external URL in a new window - Research/Science Supplement Future, opens an external URL in a new window: "Wie musikalisch ein Computer sein kann", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2015-11-25: Portrait of Gerhard Widmer in Science Magazine Heureka, opens an external URL in a new window: "Musikwahrnehmung im Computer", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2015-10-09: Article in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, opens an external URL in a new window: "Musik verstehen mit dem Computer", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2015-08-13: Portrait of Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window in SciLog, opens an external URL in a new window (e-magazine of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), opens an external URL in a new window)
- 2015-08-13: Video with Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window at the Bösendorfer piano factory, opens an external URL in a new window (interview and live demo: controlling a Chopin performance on the Bösendorfer CEUS with a Midi theremin); video produced by Austrian Science Fund (FWF), opens an external URL in a new window
- 2015-07-01: Interview, opens an external URL in a new window with Gerhard Widmer in the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, opens an external URL in a new window: "Musik braucht eine bestimmte Menge Redundanz" -- PDF article, opens an external URL in a new window; online article, opens an external URL in a new window
- 2015-06-10: TV coverage of science gala ("20 years Wittgenstein Awards"), opens an external URL in a new window in the Austrian public television (ORF), opens an external URL in a new window (Sophiensäle, Vienna, with live "scientific show act" by Gerhard Widmer)
- 2015-05-12: Report on the Con Espressione Grant on Austrian public television (ORF OÖ), opens an external URL in a new window (Oberösterreich Heute: "Förderpreis für Linzer Top-Forscher")
Before that
- 2015-02-05: Two interviews with Gerhard Widmer in Austrian public radio Ö1: Ö1 Kulturjournal, opens an external URL in a new window (mp3, opens an external URL in a new window) and Ö1 Mittagsjournal, opens an external URL in a new window(mp3, opens an external URL in a new window) on the AI-augmented concert with our computers tracking a live symphony concert in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, opens an external URL in a new window: Richard Strauss' Alpensinfonie, opens an external URL in a new window
- Mar 2013: Article in Universum Magazin, opens an external URL in a new window: "Herr der leisen Töne", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2012-02-29: Gerhard Widmer as studio guest in Ö1 radio show Apropos Musik: , opens an external URL in a new window"Abenteuer Interpretation: hörende Computer", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2010-01-12: 45 minute TV documentary on our music research group and music performance research on German TV station BR-alpha, opens an external URL in a new window: "Stil und Interpretation - Fingerprints der Musik", opens an external URL in a new window
From our early days of expressive music performance research
- Feb 2006: TV documentary about our music performance research on German international TV station Deutsche Welle TV, opens an external URL in a new window:"Projekt Zukunft - Der Mozart-Code", opens an external URL in a new window (in German), "Tomorrow Today - Cracking the Riddle of Living Music", opens an external URL in a new window (in English).
This documentary is awarded the Journalistikpreis Informatik (Hauptpreis Fernsehen), opens an external URL in a new window des Saarlandes - Jan 2006: TV documentary about our music performance research in the science show "W wie Wissen", opens an external URL in a new window of German public TV station Das Erste (ARD), opens an external URL in a new window: "Auf der Suche nach dem Horowitz-Faktor"; Screenshots: 1, opens an external URL in a new window 2, opens an external URL in a new window 3, opens an external URL in a new window 4, opens an external URL in a new window 5, opens an external URL in a new window 6, opens an external URL in a new window 7, opens an external URL in a new window 8, opens an external URL in a new window 9, opens an external URL in a new window 10, opens an external URL in a new window
- 2006-05-11: Article in Die Furche, opens an external URL in a new window: "Ein Wurm für Horowitz ", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2006-01-10: Interview with Gerhard Widmer in Codex Flores, opens an external URL in a new window (online magazine for classical music and music psychology): "Wie aus Zahlen Stilmerkmale werden" , opens an external URL in a new window
- 2005-10-25: Article in Tagesanzeiger Zürich, opens an external URL in a new window: "Ein Klavierkonzert der dritten Art", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2005-10-12: Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, opens an external URL in a new window: "Glenn Goulds algorithmische Variationen", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2005-06-01: Article in the New York Times, opens an external URL in a new window: "Play It Again, Vladimir (via Computer)", opens an external URL in a new window
- 2004-06-01: Article in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, opens an external URL in a new window: "Artificial Intelligence: Gibt es den Horowitz-Faktor?", opens an external URL in a new window
- June 2002: Artikel in German magazine Der Spiegel, opens an external URL in a new window: "Der automatische Horowitz", opens an external URL in a new window
- Sept 2001: Feature Article in WIRED Magazine, opens an external URL in a new window: "The Creative Processor", opens an external URL in a new window
Acknowledgment
This project receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC), opens an external URL in a new window under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 670035.
