Fagseminar
16
mai
Norwegian Folk Music & Computational Analysis
Tirsdag 16. mai 2023, at 10:00 – 15:30
Nasjonalbiblioteket – Store Auditorium
Gratis
As a prélude for Norway’s Constitution Day, this special event celebrates the Norwegian folk music tradition, showcasing our new online archive and demonstrating the richness of Hardanger fiddle music, with live performance. One aim of the project is to conceive new technologies allowing to better access, understand and appreciate Norwegian folk music.
Free entrance (registration required; please register by May 8).
The event will also be streamed online (no registration necessary for the online attendance).
In this event, we introduce a new online version of the Norwegian Folk Music Archive and discuss underlying theoretical and technical challenges. A live concert/workshop, with the participation of Olav Luksengård Mjelva, offers a lively introduction to Hardanger fiddle music and its elaborate rhythm. The interests and challenges of automated transcription and analysis are discussed, with the public release of our new software Annotemus. The symposium is organised in the context of the MIRAGE project (RITMO, in collaboration with the National Library of Norway‘s Digital Humanities Laboratory).
Programme:
| 10:00 | Welcome | |
| 10:10 | Overview of the MIRAGE project | Olivier Lartillot |
| 10:30 | Presentation of the Norwegian Collection of Folk Music | Hans-Hinrich Thedens |
| Segmentation of the collection into tunes, the AudioSegmentor software | OL, HHT and Rasmus Kjorstad | |
| 11:30 | Break (light buffet) | |
| 12:00 | Introduction to Hardanger fiddle (with live performance) | Olav Luksengård Mjelva |
| Manual note transcription, the Annotemus software (with live performance by OLM) | OL (and Anders Elowsson) | |
| Automated note transcription | OL and Lars Monstad | |
| 13:15 | Break | |
| 13:45 | Rhythm in Hardanger fiddle (with live performance by OLM) | Mats S. Johansson |
| Automated rhythm transcription | OL and MSJ | |
| Music analysis, visualisation; browsing into the music catalogue | OL | |
| Discussion, closing | ||
| 15:30 | End of program |
Contact
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Olivier Lartillot.
Organizer
MIRAGE, National Library and RITMO