École de musique Schulich | CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture: Eleanor Selfridge-Field, CCARH, Stanford University

Eleanor Selfridge-Field, CCARH, Stanford University. Présenté en anglais.

Ear, mind, or brain? Reflections on musical similarity

Discussions of musical similarity—what it is and how it can be assessed—run rampant in the real world as well as the academic one.  Efforts to define musical similarity have roved over several disciplines, as the pertinence of the question surfaces at will in diverse quarters.  The quest for a simple method of assessing musical similarity has been pursued in both the academic and the commercial worlds but with highly diverse methods and with little success.  In our own research into the development of digital tools for musical evaluation and query, we have recurrently encountered two problems.  Either the “matches” are too numerous to be useful or they offer a promising statistical result that not convincing to listeners.  Are we failing to formulate the right questions? Or are we misinterpreting the machine-driven answers?

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