Shlomo Dubnov is a Professor in the Music Department and Affiliate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his research on poly-spectral analysis of musical timbre and inventing the method of Music Information Dynamics with applications in Computer Audition and Machine improvisation. His previous books on The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning and Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing: Semantic and Aesthetic Modeling were published by Springer.

Ross Greer is a PhD Candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he conducts research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human agent interaction. Beyond exploring technological approaches to musical expression, Ross creates music as a conductor and orchestrator for instrumental ensembles. Ross received his B.S. and B.A. degrees in EECS, Engineering Physics, and Music from UC Berkeley, and an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UC San Diego.

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction to Sounds of Music

Chapter 2 Noise: the Hidden Dynamics of Music

Chapter 3 Communicating Musical Information

Chapter 4 Understanding and (Re)Creating Sound

Chapter 5 Generating and Listening to Audio Information

Chapter 6 Artificial Musical Brains

Chapter 7 Representing Voices in Pitch and Time

Chapter 8 Noise Revisited: Brains that Imagine

Chapter 9 Paying (Musical) Attention

Chapter 10 Last Noisy Thoughts, Summary and Conclusion

Appendix A Introduction to Neural Network Frameworks: Keras, Tensorflow, Pytorch

Appendix B Summary of Programming Examples and Exercises

Appendix C Software Packages for Music and Audio Representation and Analysis

Appendix D Free Music and Audio Editting Software

Appendix E Datasets

Appendix F Figure Attributions

References

Index