Eita Nakamura　　Lab. page　　日本語

Associate Professor, ICE Lab.
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
nakamura[at]inf.kyushu-u.ac[dot]jp
Publications and Talks [arXiv] [Google Scholar]
Curriculum Vitae

Music styles change over time. How and why do they change? Can we predict future music styles? We are studying the evolution of music based on computational analyses of music data and theoretical models of music creation process and social selection.

Can we compose music by computers? We are studying music creation from the viewpoints of statistical learning and optimization. We are interested in how individual music styles are developed and transmitted, and in the roles of active and dynamic statistical learning in musical creativity.
Melody style conversion　　 Piano arrangement

Trained musicians can listen to music audio and represent it as a musical score. We are studying computational methods to emulate this ability. Automatic music transcription is a key experimental method for analyzing music audio in the symbolic domain.
　　 Evaluation metrics (MUSTER)

Can computers listen to music and interact with humans? We are studying a method for understanding human performances and playing accompaniments with humans. Various aspects of human performances including tempo changes, errors, repeats and skips, ornaments are studied.
Eurydice system

Fingering is a basic skill for pianists, but the principle of finding appropriate fingerings is not fully understood scientifically. We are constructing computational models to formulate and search for optimal fingerings and to measure performance difficulty.

Study for comparing two symbolic representations of a musical piece (for example a MIDI recording and a corresponding musical score) at the note level.
Software and demo