This course surveys computational research in music perception and cognition. Information processing by humans serves as a basis for improving human-computer interaction in music information systems. The topics include basic concepts of music perception and cognition, computational methods for abstracting and extracting pitch and time structures, pattern and style recognition, expression synthesis, analysis and interpretation. Students will gain hands-on experience by implementing selected algorithms from the surveyed literature. The implementation projects will provide computational practice in music analysis, segmentation, synchronization and retrieval.

The course will be approved for credit towards the MSIMS and MSEE (MCT) and possibily for the MSCSCI (MCT) degrees. It will be cross-listed in the 2004-5 schedule as ISE 575 / EE 675 / CSCI 575.