Rencon: Performance Rendering Contest for Automated Music Systems
Mitsuyo Hashida, Teresa Marrin Nakra, Haruhiro Katayose, Tadahiro Murao, K. Hirata, Kenji S. Suzuki · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2008
Rencon (Performance Rendering Contest) is an annual international competition at which entrants present the computer systems they have developed for generating expressive musical performances and audience members and organizers judge the performances. Recent advances in performance rendering technology have brought with them the need for a means for researchers in this area to obtain feedback about the abilities of their systems in comparison so those of other researchers. At the ICMPC10, the competition will consist of an autonomous section (for evaluating the ability of the entered systems to generate performances autonomously) and a system-supported section (for evaluating human performances done using computer systems). The autonomous section aims to evaluate performances rendered by autonomous computer systems using e.g. a rule-based or case-based approach, and the system-supported section aims to build common ground for evaluating human performances done using computer systems.