[MEI-L] Reminder - Music and Digital Humanities: Today, 1. June, Christof Weiß

[David Weigl]

Distinguished Lecture Series in Music and Digital Humanities

https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh

The next lecture in the Distinguished Lecture Series on Music and Digital Humanities at the mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna will take place TODAY, Monday 1 June 2026 and be given by Christof Weiß, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU):

"Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: Corpora, Concepts, and Algorithms"

Abstract: Due to their wide availability and the relatively low effort required for data preparation, audio data offers significant opportunities for musical corpus studies. Moreover, they allow for considering improvised, electronically generated, or graphically notated music. Extracting explicit information such as pitches, chords, or (local) keys from audio recordings poses a major challenge. This talk focuses on dataset and methods for extracting such information and presents strategies how to exploit the potential of deep learning while preserving interpretability of the methods. The developed methods build the basis for in-depth analyses of major works such as Wagner's Ring and comprehensive corpus studies of vocal and instrumental music across several centuries of music history.

Bio: Christof Weiß received the Ph.D. degree (2017) in media technology from Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany. He also holds degrees in physics (University of Würzburg) and composition (Würzburg University of Music). Since 2022, he has been aprofessor for Computational Humanities at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), where he leads a DFG-funded Emmy Noether research group on computational music analysis. Previously, he worked at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) and was a visiting researcher at Télécom Paris. His research lies at the intersection of music information retrieval, audio signal processing, and computational musicology, with a focus on harmonic and tonal analysis and corpus-based approaches. He has received several awards, including the Baldwin and Inge Knauf Award (2026) and a Best Paper Award at CHR (2023). He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR, 2022–2023) and has been a member of the Editorial Board of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) since 2022.

The lecture will start at 17:00 (Vienna/CET) and take place in the Bankettsaal, mdw Campus.

As always, the lecture will be streamed via Zoom, and both in-person and remote participation is free.

Zoom Link:

https://mdw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/67606221415?pwd=9VUR9zPcIe43mV2Gj5IIXyd3jgWZw1.1

Please refer to https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh for further information.

The next lecture in our series will take place on 22. June 2026: a panel discussion on digital editions featuring Kateryna Schöning (University of Vienna; E-LAUTE), Iacopo Cividini (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum; Mozart Interactive Digital Edition) and Christoph Steindl (Austrian National Library; ÖNB Digital Editions Platform). Further information to follow.
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