Guest Editors
Bob L. T. Sturm (lead), Associate professor of Computer Science, KTH, Sweden
Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd, Senior Lecturer, School of Science, RMIT University
Anna Huang, Research Scientist, Magenta, Google Brain
Hendrik Vincent Koops, Senior Data Scientist, RTL Netherlands
This special issue will focus on new research developments in the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to modeling and creating music in a variety of styles, e.g., popular, folk, classical and contemporary classical. It is motivated by the 2020 AI Song Contest, in which the four guest editors adjudicated or participated among many academic teams from Europe, the UK and Australia. This event provided an exciting and unique opportunity for AI music researchers to put to the test current approaches and develop new ones, within the context of music creation. It not only revealed just how far we are from the automatic generation of hit music, but also ways in which humans and machines can work together as partners in music creation.
We are looking for mature work about the application and use of AI for music creation, e.g.,
This special issue of TISMIR provides an opportunity to bring together state of the art research in these areas. It is important and especially timely to consolidate and build new knowledge about how we can effectively, creatively and ethically use such algorithms in creative contexts.
Submission Guidelines:
Please note in your cover letter that your paper is intended to be part of this Special Issue on AI and Musical Creativity.
Submissions should adhere to formatting guidelines of the TISMIR journal: https://transactions.ismir.net/about/submissions/
Specifically, articles must not be longer than 8,000 words in length, including referencing, citation and notes.
Please also note that if the paper extends or combines the authors' previously published research, it is expected that there is a significant novel contribution in the submission (as a rule of thumb, we would expect at least 50% of the underlying work - the ideas, concepts, methods, results, analysis and discussion - to be new).
Deadlines:
- Submission deadline: The special issue is now open for submission until February 28, 2021
- First round of reviews finished: April 30, 2021
- Second submission deadline (in case revisions are necessary): June 30, 2021
Please note that as soon as a paper has been accepted and successfully passed the production stage, it will already be published online, even if the decision process for other special issue papers is not finished yet.
We expect all accepted papers to be published before the end of 2021.
Posted on 15 Oct 2020
ISMIR is the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. It is also proud to support the journal Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. The 21st edition of the ISMIR conference, initially planned to take place in Montréal, Canda, will finally take place in a virtual format from October 11-15, 2020.
For more information please visit https://ismir.github.io/ISMIR2020/
Posted on 24 Sep 2020
To commemorate this year's anniversary of 20 years of ISMIR conferences, TISMIR (Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval) calls for special papers which reflect on the development of MIR as a research field by charting MIR's progress over the last two decades, and also elaborate on MIR's future. Such papers should provide a critical state-of-the-art overview of a broader MIR problem area and at the same time discuss the midterm future of this research area.
We are looking for thought-provoking and insightful papers reflecting on the evolution of the Music IR field as a whole or particular topics therein. For example:
- Review and explain how particular MIR ideas have stood over time.
- Reflect on why particular ideas have failed or have not worked as expected.
- Reflect on results that have, or have not, had the proper impact on MIR research.
- Reflect on how methodological issues have boosted or delayed the development of the field.
- Review how an MIR idea has impact in related fields or vice-versa.
- Confirm how MIR ideas commonly accepted by the community do, or do not, hold in reality.
- Present new ideas or proposals to help the community at large.
Submission Guidelines:
Please note in your cover letter that your paper is intended to be part of this Special Issue on Anniversary Papers
Submissions should adhere to formatting guidelines of the TISMIR journal: https://transactions.ismir.net/about/submissions/
Specifically, articles must not be longer than 8,000 words in length, not including referencing, citation and notes.
Please also note that if the paper extends or combines the authors' previously published research (e.g. an anniversary paper at ISMIR 2019), it is expected that there is a significant novel contribution in the submission (as a rule of thumb, we would expect at least 50% of the underlying work - the ideas, concepts, methods, results, analysis and discussion - to be new).
Deadlines:
- Submission deadline: The special issue is now open for submission until February 28, 2020
- First round of reviews finished: April 30, 2020
- Second submission deadline (in case revisions are necessary): June 30, 2020
Please note that as soon as a paper has been accepted and successfully passed the production stage, it will already be published online, even if the decision process for other special issue papers is not finished yet.
We expect all accepted papers to be published before the end of 2020.
Posted on 21 Nov 2019
ISMIR is the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. It is also proud to support the journal Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. For the 20th anniversary of the inaugural conference, ISMIR invite you to the beautiful city of Delft, The Netherlands, where the conference will take place from November 4-8, 2019.
The tagline for this year's conference is Across the Bridge. Our community reflects a diversity of scientific disciplines, seniority levels, professional affiliations, and cultural backgrounds. It always has been explicitly interested in fostering and stimulating this diversity, leading to better science and better music services. At ISMIR 2019, we want to explicitly encourage the community to take this a step further, and actively connect across the bridges between our backgrounds.
For more information, to submit a paper, or to register for the conference, please visit https://ismir2019.ewi.tudelft.nl/
(note: Author Registration Deadline - September 1, 2019)
Posted on 16 Jul 2019
The Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval is open for submissions and invites all members of the journal's community to submit a paper for consideration within this volume.
We publish interdisciplinary research in the field of music information retrieval (MIR) and welcome paper from disciplines including (but not limited to) computer science, musicology, cognitive science, library & information science and electrical engineering.
Visit our author guidelines for more information on how to submit a paper: https://transactions.ismir.net/about/submissions/
Posted on 01 Jul 2019
Posted on 03 Sep 2018
The Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval is currently accepting submissions for its first issue. View our submission guidelines for more information.
Editorial Team:
Editors in Chief
Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Emilia Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Anja Volk (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Editorial Board
Juan Bello (New York University, United States)
Arthur Flexer (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Austria)
Fabien Gouyon (Pandora, United States)
Xiao Hu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Olivier Lartillot (University of Oslo, Norway)
Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington, United States)
Meinard Mueller (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany)
Geoffroy Peeters (Sound Analysis/Synthesis Team, France)
Markus Schedl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Posted on 18 Apr 2017