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GiantSteps – Seven League
Boots for Music Creation and Performance
Sponsor: European
Commission
Call
identifier: FP7-ICT-2013-10
Project
Number: 610591
Duration:
36 months
(Nov 2013 – Oct 2016)
Project Website: http://www.giantsteps-project.eu
Key Personnel at cp.jku:
Project Summary
The
GiantSteps project aims to create the "seven-league boots" for music
production in the next decade and beyond. We envision digital musical
tools that unleash the creative potential of practitioners by targeting
three directions:
- Developing and integrating musical
expert agents, supportive and inspirational systems for melody,
harmony, rhythm, structure or style, providing suggestions from sample
to song level, while guiding users when they lack inspiration or
technical or musical knowledge. These systems will be based on the
latest findings in multimodal music information research (MIR) on
symbolic, audio and metadata, as well as on new recommendation
strategies for the music production domain.
- Developing improved interfaces and paradigms for musical
human-computer interaction and collaborative control of
multi-dimensional parameter spaces, leading to intuitive, expressive
and tangible input modalities. These interfaces will incorporate novel
visualisation techniques that provide meaningful and relevant feedback
to enable fast comprehensibility for novices and improved workflows for
professionals.
- Addressing low cost portable devices by developing low complexity
algorithms for music analysis and recommendation tailored to their
capabilities. This will allow for beyond state of the art music
analysis algorithms in affordable production tools and Apps that can be
easily distributed and accessed by both professionals and amateurs.
The
GiantSteps project unites leading music research institutions,
industrial R&D companies, and music practitioners, to combine
techniques and technologies in new ways, including state of the art
interface design techniques with MIR methods new in the areas of real
time interaction and creativity. The consortium's industry partners
will guarantee the alignment of these cutting edge technologies with
market requirements.
Partners
- JCP-Connect SAS,
France (project leader)
- Universitat
Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Spain
- Johannes
Kepler Universität
Linz, Austria
- Red Bull Music Academy
(Yadastar GmbH), Germany
- STEIM, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
- Reactable Systems, Barcelona,
Spain
- Native Instruments, Germany
last edited by pk
on Jan 22, 2015