The need of multicultural Web technologies

The need for Multicultural

Web Technologies

Xavier Serra Music Technology Group

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) xavier.serra@upf.edu

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CompMusic: Computational models for the discovery of the world’s music”

[funded with an ERC Advanced Grant for a period of 5 years and a budget of 2.5 million Euros]

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compmusic.upf.edu

CompMusic Objectives

•  Promote multicultural approaches in Music Information Technology.

•  Work on information models for culture specific contexts. Characterize differences.

•  Use as many types of information sources as possible (audio features, symbolic scores, text commentaries, user evaluations, …)

•  Use culture specific perspectives. Involve researchers immersed in the music cultures to be studied.

Musical repertoires •  Hindustani (North India), Carnatic (South India),

Turkish-makam (Turkey), Andalusi (North Africa), Han (China).

•  Classical traditions with alive performance practices and strong social and cultural relevance.

•  A lot of “good” data available.

Possibility to challenge current western centred information paradigms.

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Expert information

Community information

Multicultural approaches should make qualitative advancements in

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The Web Technologies should help preserve and enrich our

multicultural world.

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