MAGES 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Music Analysis for Generation Systems (MAGES 2016)

The 1st International Workshop on the Role of Music Analysis in the Evaluation of Music Generation Systems (MAGES) will be held June 27, 2016 in Paris, France, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016.
The integration of music analysis for the evaluation of automatic music generation systems
Ideally, automatic music generation systems should make use of some sort of evaluation of their productions during the generation process. Such self-evaluation or “critics” are usually modelled with the formalisms and tools of Artificial Intelligence. On the other hand, musicologists have conducted music analysis on human produced music for a long time, and developed specific models. However, there is still little dialogue between the two communities.
This workshop focuses on the integration of music analysis in music generation systems, including the modeling of “musical critics” and self-evaluation during the compositional process. To this aim, the workshop will be divided into two phases:
1) A small number of short talks, possibly with a poster / discussion session.
2) Collective listening sessions, during which attendants will be able to analyse/criticise automatically generated music produced by the participants.
These sessions will be video recorded for later use.
We therefore welcome two kinds of contributions: position papers pertaining to computational music analysis methods, and position papers about automatically generated music, accompanied by musical examples to be used in the listening sessions.