Continuing CompMusic: New approaches in the computational analysis of Carnatic Music

Paper presentation by Genis Plaja at the 26th International Symposium On Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2021)

The CompMusic project ran between 2011 and 2017 with the aim of promoting culturally specific approaches in Computational Musicology, focusing on the art music traditions of India (Hindustani and Carnatic), Turkey (Turkish-Makam), Morocco (Arab-Andalusi) and China (Jingju). A large corpus was compiled for each of these traditions, from which much research was carried out. Since then, the evolution of new and increasingly more sophisticated methods and tools for Computational Musicology tasks has continued, and their application/development in culturally specific contexts remains as important as ever.

We present here the ongoing research and continuation of the CompMusic project in the tradition of Carnatic music, introducing new methodologies for (1) dataset gathering and management, (2) Music Information Retrieval tasks (vocal pitch extraction and source separation) and (3) melodic analysis (melodic pattern recognition, exploration and visualisation). We aim to achieve state-of-the-art results for these tasks in Carnatic music whilst providing the community with tools for the continued research of this musical repertoire.

Genis Plaja, Thomas Nuttall, & Xavier Serra: Continuing CompMusic: New approaches in the computational analysis of Carnatic Music

This work is part of Musical AI project PID2019- 111403GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)