LCM, the Computer Music
Lab (Laboratório de Computação Musical, in
Portuguese) at the Institute of
Informatics, together with the Electronic Music Center - CME (Centro de
Música Eletrônica, in Portuguese) at the School of Arts, are
the labs of the Computer Music Research Group from the Federal University
of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS. Its creation, back in 1994,
emerged from the need to explore both the technological
aspects of music (now at the CME) and the development of
computer music systems.
Current research
at the LCM include the following
topics: - Cooperative music prototyping on the Web
(Networked Music) - Music with mobile devices (Mobile
Music) - Music in Ubicomp context (Ubiquitous Music) - New
interfaces for musical expression (NIME) -
Musical Interfaces/Interaction - Computers in music
education - Musical multi-agent systems
History:
Early research at the LCM began in 1994 at the Institute of Informatics, concerning Artificial
Intelligence and Music. With one Macintosh LC II connected to a Roland A-30 MIDI controller and a Sound Canvas
module, the MSc student (at that time) and musician Eloi Fritsch wrote his first programs in Max, EduMax and AcompMax, and in PROLOG, advised
by Prof. Rosa Vicari.
At that same time, Fabio Beckenkamp developed an artificial
intelligence model for chord classification and harmony analysis,
advised by Prof. Paulo
Engel.
Eloi and Fabio continued their studies with AI and Music, and
developed systems such as the SETMUS (Expert System on Musical
Theory) in HyperCard (an early Apple multimedia environment), ARPA
(Automatic Arpeggiator), and CAMM (Automatic Melody Composer).
These systems were presented at some of the first Brazilian Symposia
on Computer Music - SBCM, and also at the International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence - IJCAI, in 1995.
Today, the LCM is coordinated by professors Marcelo
Pimenta, Rosa Vicari,
and Eduardo Miranda,
with aid from Prof. Marcelo
Johann and still from Prof. Eloi
Fritsch (now teaching at the School of
Arts). Besides AI and Music, and Systems for Musical Education,
the LCM team now covers new fields of research, such as
Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, HCI - Human Computer Interaction, and
CSCW - Computer Supported Cooperative Work, in relation
to computer music systems. |