Music informatics

Music informatics is a study of music processing,^[1] in particular music representations, fourier analysis of music, music synchronization, music structure analysis and chord recognition.^[1]^[2] Other music informatics research topics include computational music modeling (symbolic, distributed, etc.),^[2] computational music analysis,^[2] optical music recognition,^[2] digital audio editors, online music search engines, music information retrieval and cognitive issues in music. Because music informatics is an emerging discipline, it is a very dynamic area of research with many diverse viewpoints, whose future is yet to be determined.

Sub-topics in Music Informatics research

interdisciplinary relationships in music informatics
the digital revolution in music its impact on music information services and music libraries
knowledge of current trends in music technologies including software and hardware
mental models in the cognition of music listening and performing
symbolic music modeling systems and computer-aided composition
social and economic realities of the consumption of music in Western societies
improvisation in music, especially where it is facilitated by music technology
music digital libraries and collections architectures
future of music distribution, the music industry, and music libraries
music information retrieval
music recommendation systems
studying and synthesizing music expression
audio signal-to-score (singing, polyphonic, piano, etc.)
musical analysis
musical accompaniment systems
score following
optical music recognition (OMR)
music Source Separation
music for Computer Games
MIDI to Symbolic Score

Music informatics in education

Music informatics, as a degree subject, offers a similar learning experience to music technology, but goes further into learning the principles behind the technology.^[3] Informatics students will not just use existing music hardware and software, but will learn programming and artificial intelligence.

References

^ ^a ^b Müller, Meinard (2015). Fundamentals of Music Processing: Audio, Analysis, Algorithms, Applications. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-21944-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Music Informatics Interest Group | SMT". societymusictheory.org.
^ "Music Informatics". University of Sussex. Retrieved 2008-04-20.

Information processing

Information processes

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information processing abstractions	event processing sign processesing signal processing data processing stream processing agent processing state processing

Information processors

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mixed	mixed reality brain–computer interface physical computing human–computer interaction
artificial	processors and processes bio-inspired computing ubiquitous computing artificial brain and mind uploading virtual reality virtual world

Information processing
theories and concepts

in biology	computational and systems biology genetic informatics and cellular computing computational neuroscience and neurocomputing
in cognitive psychology	information processing theory mind and intelligence cognitive informatics and neuroinformatics behavior informatics
in computer science	neural computation computation theory algorithms and information structures computational circuits artificial intelligence
in philosophy	computational theory of mind philosophy of information philosophy of artificial intelligence
interdisciplinary	information theory decision theory systems theory
other	infosphere inforg Decoding the Universe information overload