The proceedings of 2nd CompMusic Workshop, which was held in July 12th-13th, 2012 in Bahçeşehir University, are now online. In the proceedings, I have a paper titled An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music of Turkey. I have also contributed to another paper titled A Musically Aware System for Browsing and Interacting with Audio Music Collections.

The presentations of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop, which was hosted in Bahçeşehir University between 12th and 13th July 2012, is online in CompMusic Project‘s Youtube channel. I have also given a presentation about the paper submission named, An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music in Turkey. You can watch the presentation above and check the pdf of the presentation here…

Next week between July 12th-13th, 2012, I will be attending to the 2nd CompMusic Workshop in Bahçeşehir University. I will present the paper titled An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music in Turkey. I have also contributed to another paper titled A Musically Aware System for Browsing and Interacting with Audio Music Collections.

I have passed the defense of my PhD. proposal, titled Computational Characterization of Seyirs in Makam Music in Turkey!!

I would like to thank Jehan Barbur, Groove Armada, Büyük Ev Ablukada, A Perfect Circle, Pentagram, Yoko Kanno, Massive Attack, Hiromi Uehara, Vega and all other musicians, which have accompanied me in the sleepless nights…

On Tuesday June 12th 2012 at 10:15, I will defend my PhD. thesis proposal named, “Computational Characterization of Seyirs in Makam Music in Turkey”. The defense will take place in room 55.410 in the Tànger Building in the Poblenou campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The event is public and everybody is welcome to come.

Today at 12:00 midnight, I will be live in the programme, Sosyal Medya, in TRT Haber. We will be talking about social media, digital technologies and music…

Between 17 and 19 October in Barcelona, there was an internal meeting with the Turkish team. We had a very fruitful meeting and shared a lot of information between each other.

The meeting presentations are recorded and they are freely accessible at the CompMusic Youtube channel.

The conference paper titled “Modeling Melodic Improvisation in Turkish Folk Music Using Variable-Length Markov Models” will be presented in ISMIR 2011, Miami, FL. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend this year’s conference, but any attendees can see the poster in the 15:10-17:00 session on 25 October 2011. You can also read the poster here. Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has been the world’s leading forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data.

The paper describes the Uzun Hava Humdrum Database, the first machine-readable symbolic database of uzun havas, a non-metered structured improvisation form in Turkish folk music, and also a computational system, which is shown to predict the improvised melodic progressions in Turkish folk music with success.

Recently, I have completed my masters studies in Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, and got affiliated to the CompMusic Project in the Music Technology Group in Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. In the project, I will be working on Ottoman classical and Hindustani musics.

CompMusic, Computational Models for the Discovery of the World's Music, is a research project funded by the European Research Council and coordinated by Xavier Serra from the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain). The project will run from 2011 to 2016. The main goal of CompMusic is to advance in the field of Music Computing by approaching a number of the current research challenges from a multicultural perspective. You can have more information about the project in the CompMusic web site.

The paper titled “Predictive Tabla Modeling Using Variable-length Markov and Hidden Markov Models”, which is authored by Parag Chordia, Avinash Sastry and me, is accepted to the Journal of New Music Research. In the paper, we model the tabla sequences in a predictive framework with variable-length Markov models (VLMMs). You can read more about the project and the paper in here.