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CON ESPRESSIONE
Towards Expressivity-aware Computer Systems in Music

ERC Advanced Grant 2015, European Research Council (ERC)

Call identifier: ERC-2014-AdG

Project Number: 670035

Principal Investigator: Gerhard Widmer

Project Period: 2016 – 2020

Funding Amount: € 2,318,750.00

Our Music & Expressivity Research in the Media

Since 2015 (receipt of ERC Grant):

2018-09-07: Article on our AI & Music Pavillion at the FWF BE OPEN Science & Society Festival, produced by Austrian Newspaper "Die Presse".
2018-05-25: On-line article in ERC=Science^2 ("Mind-blowing science, from the European Research Council") on our work on computational models of expressive music performance.
2017-03-21: Article in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten on Gerhard Widmer's appearance in the Kepler Salon Linz.
2017-10-19: Article on the Con Espressione Project in the Slovenian newspaper DELO: "Umetna inteligenca in glasba" ("Artificial Intelligence in Music")
2017-10-14: Gerhard Widmer as studio guest in the main evening news of Slovenian public TV station RTV Slovenia (via RTV Slo Archive)
2016-04-16: Article in Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung - Research/Science Supplement Future: "Wie musikalisch ein Computer sein kann"
2015-11-25: Portrait of Gerhard Widmer in Science Magazine Heureka: "Musikwahrnehmung im Computer"
2015-10-09: Article in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse: "Musik verstehen mit dem Computer"
2015-08-13: Portrait of Gerhard Widmer in SciLog (e-magazine of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF))
2015-08-13: Video with Gerhard Widmer at the Bösendorfer piano factory (interview and live demo: controlling a Chopin performance on the Bösendorfer CEUS with a Midi theremin); video produced by Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2015-07-01: Interview with Gerhard Widmer in the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard: "Musik braucht eine bestimmte Menge Redundanz" -- PDF article; online article
2015-06-10: TV coverage of science gala ("20 years Wittgenstein Awards") in the Austrian public television (ORF) (Sophiensäle, Vienna, with live "scientific show act" by Gerhard Widmer)
2015-05-12: Report on the Con Espressione Grant on Austrian public television (ORF OÖ) (Oberösterreich Heute: "Förderpreis für Linzer Top-Forscher")

Before that:

2015-02-05: Two interviews with Gerhard Widmer in Austrian public radio Ö1: Ö1 Kulturjournal (mp3) and Ö1 Mittagsjournal (mp3) on the AI-augmented concert with our computers tracking a live symphony concert in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Richard Strauss' Alpensinfonie
Mar 2013: Article in Universum Magazin: "Herr der leisen Töne"
2012-02-29: Gerhard Widmer as studio guest in Ö1 radio show Apropos Musik: "Abenteuer Interpretation: hörende Computer"
2010-01-12: 45 minute TV documentary on our music research group and music performance research on German TV station BR-alpha: "Stil und Interpretation - Fingerprints der Musik"

From our early days of expressive music performance research:

Feb 2006: TV documentary about our music performance research on German international TV station Deutsche Welle TV: "Projekt Zukunft - Der Mozart-Code" (in German), "Tomorrow Today - Cracking the Riddle of Living Music" (in English).
This documentary is awarded the Journalistikpreis Informatik (Hauptpreis Fernsehen) des Saarlandes
Jan 2006: TV documentary about our music performance research in the science show "W wie Wissen" of German public TV station Das Erste (ARD): "Auf der Suche nach dem Horowitz-Faktor"; Screenshots: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2006-05-11: Article in Die Furche: "Ein Wurm für Horowitz "
2006-01-10: Interview with Gerhard Widmer in Codex Flores (online magazine for classical music and music psychology): "Wie aus Zahlen Stilmerkmale werden"
2005-10-25: Article in Tagesanzeiger Zürich: "Ein Klavierkonzert der dritten Art"
2005-10-12: Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Glenn Goulds algorithmische Variationen"
2005-06-01: Article in the New York Times: "Play It Again, Vladimir (via Computer)"
2004-06-01: Article in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse: "Artificial Intelligence: Gibt es den Horowitz-Faktor?"
June 2002: Artikel in German magazine Der Spiegel: "Der automatische Horowitz"
Sept 2001: Feature Article in WIRED Magazine: "The Creative Processor"

This project receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 670035.