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2022 UTokyo 3MT – Shintaro Seki – The New Possibilities for Traditional Japanese Sheet Music brought by digitization
"Most people can read music on a staff. On the other hand, very few people can read sheet music that is not in five-line notation, especially that traditionally used in East Asia, including Japan. My research interest is in new music scores for the digital age. While the paper has physical limitations, digital media offers great extensibility. By taking advantage of this extensibility, I am considering how to make sheet music more accessible to a wider audience. Specifically, I aim to represent sheet music in a format that is understandable by computers and to have computers take over the task of reading music, which has traditionally been assigned to humans. By using a computer-readable notation system, even people who cannot read sheet music can listen to and re-edit the music written on the score. This is a new way of using sheet music and has great potential for the future."
These videos are part of The University of Tokyo’s fourth Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Seventeen PhD students each introduce their research in under three minutes, in English, with just a single slide. UTokyo students, faculty and staff can log-in with their email address to cast a vote for the People’s Choice Award between Friday July 24th and 4pm on Friday June 8th 2022. Please click here: forms.office.com/r/Kc5SKAKbd7
The top three winners are announced on Saturday July 9th 2022. The Grand Prize winner represents UTokyo at the University of Queensland’s 2022 Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition.
3MT is a registered trademark of The University of Queensland.
https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/
2022 UTokyo 3MT – Shintaro Seki – The New Possibilities for Traditional Japanese Sheet Music brought by digitization
"Most people can read music on a staff. On the other hand, very few people can read sheet music that is not in five-line notation, especially that traditionally used in East Asia, including Japan. My research interest is in new music scores for the digital age. While the paper has physical limitations, digital media offers great extensibility. By taking advantage of this extensibility, I am considering how to make sheet music more accessible to a wider audience. Specifically, I aim to represent sheet music in a format that is understandable by computers and to have computers take over the task of reading music, which has traditionally been assigned to humans. By using a computer-readable notation system, even people who cannot read sheet music can listen to and re-edit the music written on the score. This is a new way of using sheet music and has great potential for the future."
These videos are part of The University of Tokyo’s fourth Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Seventeen PhD students each introduce their research in under three minutes, in English, with just a single slide. UTokyo students, faculty and staff can log-in with their email address to cast a vote for the People’s Choice Award between Friday July 24th and 4pm on Friday June 8th 2022. Please click here: forms.office.com/r/Kc5SKAKbd7
The top three winners are announced on Saturday July 9th 2022. The Grand Prize winner represents UTokyo at the University of Queensland’s 2022 Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition.
3MT is a registered trademark of The University of Queensland.
https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/
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The Hitachi-UTokyo Laboratory (H-UTokyo Lab.) was established in 2016 by the University of Tokyo and Hitachi. H-UTokyo Lab has pioneered the industry-academia collaboration model in Japan, with the goal of realizing Society 5.0, a super smart society where people can lead secure, comfortable, energetic and high-quality lives, and where no one is left behind. We are determined to build the sustainable smart city we are promoting through the Habitation Innovation Project: “Urban transformation through living” initiative.
H-UTokyo Lab Website：http://www.ht-lab.ducr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/
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