Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology

Aalborg University, Denmark

8-10 October 2025

Venue: AAU CREATE building, Room 4.105, Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark. (Map of room location)

 

Programme

 

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Start time

End time

Event

12.00

17.00

Hackathon

12.00 – 12.30

Introduction and presentation of following topics:

1.     Structural complexity through musical entropy: Six analytical perspectivs on Beethoven’s late piano sonatas, in comparison with his early and middle works (proposed by Xiran SUN) (Slides)

2.     Automatic analysis and visualization of structure in the third movement of Samuel Barber’s Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 (proposed by David MEREDITH) (Slides)

3.     Singing voice conversion for Ukrainian folk song (proposed by Anna ALJANAKI) (Slides)

4.     Mapping the evolving purpose of music analysis: A network-based exploration (proposed by Miya KOHNO) (Slides)

12.30 – 13.00

Assignment of participants to topic groups and group orientation meetings

13.00 – 16.00

Hacking!

16.00 – 17.00

Presentation and demonstration of systems developed

 

Thursday 9 October 2025

Start time

End time

Event

08.30

09.30

Registration

09.30

09.40

Welcome from conference chair, David MEREDITH

09.40

10.40

Keynote talk: Groove on the brain: Predictive processing of music

Peter VUUST, Director of the Centre for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University

10.40

11.00

Coffee break

11.00

12.20

First oral presentation session (Chair: David MEREDITH)

11.00-11.20

Recep GÜL
Giray DÜZEL
Ozan BAYSAL

From Theory to Topology: Modeling Turkish Makam Complexity with Multiplex Networks and Deep Learning

11.20-11.40

Lucas HOFMANN
Christoph FINKENSIEP
Fabian C. MOSS

Metric Complexity in Polyphonic Music: A Theoretical Framework and Quantitative Analysis of Hugo Distler’s Motets

11.40-12.00

Philon NGUYEN

Musical Complexity and Symbolic Representation in AI Composition: From Transformer Architectures to Symbolic and Sonic Transduction

12.00-12.20

James DENNIS

Entropy-Based Critical Points in Overtone Interaction Predict Cross-Cultural Pitch Stabilization in Maqam and Raga Performance

 

 

12.20

13.00

Lunch

13.00

14.00

Keynote talk: Rewiring radio: Rediscovering public service through technology

Thomas DOSE, Head of Music Services at Danmarks Radio (DR)

14.00

14.20

Coffee break

14.20

15.20

First poster session

Noel ALBEN
Nat CONDIT-SCHULTZ

Bridging Computational Rhythm Analysis and Learner Progression in Pattern Replication Tasks

Serena ALLEGRA

Superposition, Entanglement, and Collapse in Performance and Listening: the case of Bach’s Polyphony

Matteo BIZZARRI
Satoshi TOJO

A Hybrid Framework for Chord Analysis: Lambek Calculus and Tonal Pitch Space

Ruan BUITENDAG
J. Pieter JACOBS

Comparison of symbolic transformer neural network models for analysis of phrase structure in Mozart piano sonatas

Gabriele CECCHETTI
Roger T. DEAN

Artificial music theory: Interpreting the hidden spaces in neural-network models as a tool for music-theoretical investigation

Matt CHIU

Visual Features and Style Classification with Convolutional Autoencoders

Darrell CONKLIN

Constrained sampling for Mozarabic chant

Efraim DAHL
Peter VAN KRANENBURG
Anja VOLK

RhythGen: Controlling rhythmic complexity in generating symbolic music for interactive serious game interventions

Mark DE ZWAAN

The Importance of Gesture in Automatic Piano Fingering: Expanding Corpora to Promote Complex Understanding of Digital Piano Music

Arne EIGENFELDT
Darrell CONKLIN

Mining Contrast Patterns in Charlie Parker Solos

Luca IACOVELLA
Ward GAUDERIS
Nicholas HARLEY
Lin DE HUYBRECHT
Geraint A. WIGGINS

Quantum jazz: spectral representation of musical harmony

Miya KOHNO
Yo TOMITA
Masahiro NIITSUMA

Is C Major Truly Radiant? A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of J.S. Bach’s Solo String Works and Their Tonal Characteristics

Marina MACIÁ
David RIZO
Javier SANCHIS

Towards best practices in visual design of graphical interfaces for computational musicology

Shuxin MENG
Martin ROHRMEIER

From Theory to Listening: A Cross-Cultural Study of Chinese Pentatonic Scale Perception

Thomas NUTTALL
Lara PEARSON

Computational analyses of coarticulatory processes in Karnatak music

Yizhen WANG
Patricie KYSLÍKOVÁ

Can Computational Methods Capture the Voice of Resistance? An NLP and Ethnographic Investigation of Czech Romani Hip-Hop

Linglan ZHU
Mael OUDIN
Benjamin LAVASTRE
Stephen McADAMS

Perceiving musical interaction between digital and acoustic instruments: A case study with the Karlax

 

 

15.20

16.40

Second oral presentation session (Chair: Anja VOLK)

15.20-15.40

Niels Chr. HANSEN

Universal dynamics of musical phrase structure in ~10,000 melodies from across the world

15.40-16.00

Alexander CHIRIBOGA
Liam POND
Ichiro FUJINAGA

The Shape of Swing: How Timing Outlines Form in Jazz Solos

16.00-16.20

Pascal SCHMOLENZKY
Stephanie KLAUK
Meinard MÜLLER
Rainer KLEINERTZ
Christoph WEIß

Corpus-Based Perspectives on Exposition and Recapitulation in Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

16.20-16.40

Ron TAIEB
Barak SOBER
Yoel GREENBERG

Probabilistic Multilabel Graphical Modelling of Motif Transformations in Symbolic Music

 

 

 

Friday 10 October 2025

Start time

End time

Event

09.30

10.50

Third oral presentation session (Chair: Johanna DEVANEY)

09.30-09.50

Teresa
CASCUDO GARCIA-VILLARACO
David FERREIRO CARBALLO
Arturo DE LAS CASAS ESCOLAR

Reconstructing Historical Cognitive Models of Musical Knowledge: A Semantically-Enriched Corpus Approach

09.50-10.10

Jure JUVAN
Klara ŽNIDERŠIČ
Matija MAROLT
Anja VOLK
Matevž PESEK

Pattern Annotation Framework (PAF): The Analysis of Annotators' Pattern Discovery Perception in Diverse Music Datasets

10.10-10.30

Bill MANARIS
James CYGANEK
Blake STEVENS

J.S. Bach’s Unfinished Contrapunctus XIV – A Zipf’s Law Based Computational Study to Analyze and Classify Attempted Completions

10.30-10.50

Bastian VOBIG
Thomas WOSCH

Integrating Music Therapy Assessment: From High-Level Reasoning to Computational Frameworks

 

 

10.50

11.10

Coffee break

11.10

12.10

Second poster session

Lena ALFTER

Diffracting Beethoven’s Copy Making

Vanessa Nina BORSAN
Jure JUVAN
Matija MAROLT
Matevž PESEK
Leon STEFANIJA
Filip TRPLAN

From Corpus to Classroom: Interactive Access to Children’s Song Repertoire on the MUSCO Platform

Nat CONDIT-SCHULTZ

Enabling the Study of Lyric-Music Correspondence in Song: Encoding Linguistic Annotations in Humdrum Scores

Tim EIPERT
Adrian NACHTWEY

MusicDiffVision: Visualising Differences in Music Encodings

Joshua FRANK
Peter M. C. HARRISON

Modelling roughness and harmonicity from musical audio

Benjamin HENZEL
Meinard MÜLLER
Christoph WEIß

An Audio-Based Strategy for Investigating Style Evolution in Western Choral Music

Olja JANJUŠ
Julia JAKLIN
Reinier DE VALK

“l’arte del bene intavolare et rettamente sonare”: (De)coding 16th-Century Ornamentation Rules for Computational Analysis

Inna LISNIAK
Anna ALJANAKI
Liudmyla YEFREMOVA

Melodic and Rhythmic-Syllabic Patterns In Ukrainian Folk Songs

Tace McNAMARA
Jon McCORMACK
Jesper KJELDSKOV

Indirect Acquisition of Pitch Comprehension in Speech-to-Speech Large Language Models

Anjuli MISTRY
Mirjam VISSCHER

Mode classification in Renaissance and Baroque polyphony using ‘Dissonance Pitch Class Profiles’

Michaella Jung Hyun MOON
Dale CARNEGIE
Jim MURPHY

Computational onset detection for the haegeum: addressing cultural and acoustic complexity

Xiran SUN

A Pitch-Based Framework for Musical Structural Complexity: Gravitational and Entropic Perspectives on Beethoven’s Op.110

Peter VAN KRANENBURG
Geert MAESSEN

Connecting Medieval Chant Traditions: A Comparative Analysis

Charlotte VAN ROIJEN
Mirjam VISSCHER

Modelling the Evolution of Tonal Complexity: A Statistical Analysis from Renaissance to Baroque

Ningxiang XIE
Eamonn BELL
Robert LIECK

Investigating Unsupervised Constituency Parsing for Music Harmony

Tengyue ZHANG
Daniel McKEMIE
Johanna DEVANEY

Unveiling the “Mysterious” Notes in Chinese Qinqiang Opera Through Computational Methods

 

 

12.10

13.30

Fourth oral presentation session (Chair: Anders BONDE)

12.10-12.30

J. Albert YOO

Beyond the Recording: Musical Performance as a Combinatorial and Kinaesthetic Game

12.30-12.50

Lindsey REYMORE
Nicole BIAMONTE
Ben DUINKER
Jade ROTH
Nicholas SHEA
Jeremy TATAR
Leigh VanHANDEL
Christopher William WHITE
Matthew ZELLER

Analyzing Timbre and Texture in a Multi-Genre Popular Music Corpus

12.50-13.10

Yui UEHARA
Satoshi TOJO

Towards composer-specific harmony theories: an unsupervised harmonic analysis modelwith neural hierarchical HSMM

13.10-13.30

Mauro Orsini WINDHOLZ
David R. W. SEARS
Fabian C. MOSS

Conventional and characteristic harmonic sequences across Brazilian choro, Western classical music and rock: tonal harmony in a Global South context

 

 

13.30

14.30

Lunch

14.30

 

END OF CONFERENCE