Polifonia's ‘Harmonic Memory’ introduced at Web Conference 2023 (Austin, USA)

Andrea Poltronieri (UNIBO) is to present the paper The Harmonic Memory: a Knowledge Graph of harmonic patterns as a trustworthy framework for computational creativity at the Web Conference 2023, a yearly international conference on the topic of the future directions of the World Wide Web.

2 May 2023

Andrea Poltronieri (UNIBO) is to present the paper The Harmonic Memory: a Knowledge Graph of harmonic patterns as a trustworthy framework for computational creativity at the Web Conference 2023, a yearly international conference on the topic of the future directions of the World Wide Web.

The Conference aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. During the track “Creative Web – Session 2: Text, images & music” on May 3rd, Polifonia will introduce the Harmonic Memory. 

Harmonic Memory is a Knowledge Graph of harmonic patterns extracted from a large and heterogeneous musical corpus and has a goal to enable trustworthy machine creativity. Andrea will provide examples of how this design enables novel pathways for combinational creativity. 

The paper written by Andrea Poltronieri (UNIBO), Valentina Presutti (UNIBO), Jacopo de Berardinis (KCL) and Albert Meroño-Peñuela (KCL) can be found here.

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