Wed 24 Mar 2021 15:30 - 16:00 at Virtual Space B - Session 4 Chair(s): Ademar Aguiar
Thu 25 Mar 2021 17:30 - 18:00 at Virtual Space B - Session 13 Chair(s): Jens Lincke

This paper presents Skini, a programming methodology and an execution environment for interactive structured music. With this system, the composer programs his scores in the HipHop.js synchronous reactive language. They are then executed, or played, in live concerts, in interaction with the audience. The system aims at helping composers to find a good balance between the determinism of the compositions and the nondeterminism of the interactions with the public. Each execution of a Skini score yields to a different but aesthetically consistent interpretation.

This work raises many questions in the musical fields. How to combine composition and interaction? How to control the musical style when the audience influences what is to play next? What are the possible connections with generative music? These are important questions for the Skini system but they are out of the scope of this paper that focuses exclusively on the computer science aspects of the system. From that perspective, the main questions are how to program the scores and in which language? General purpose languages are inappropriate because their elementary constructs (i.e., variables, functions, loops, etc.) do not match the constructions needed to express music and musical constraints. We show that synchronous programming languages are a much better fit because they rely on temporal constructs that can be directly used to represent musical scores and because their malleability enables composers to experiment easily with artistic variations of their initial scores.

The paper mostly focuses on scores programming. It exposes the process a composer should follow from his very first musical intuitions up to the generation of a musical artifact. The paper presents some excerpts of the programming of a classical music composition that it then precisely relates to an actual recording. Examples of techno music and jazz are also presented, with audio artifact, to demonstrate the versatility of the system. Finally, brief presentations of past live concerts are presented as an evidence of viability of the system.

Wed 24 Mar

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15:00 - 16:30
Session 4Research Papers at Virtual Space B
Chair(s): Ademar Aguiar FEUP, Universidade do Porto
15:00
30m
Live Q&A
Path-Sensitive Atomic Commit: Local Coordination Avoidance for Distributed Transactions
Research Papers
Tim Soethout ING Bank and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands, Jurgen Vinju CWI, Netherlands
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15:30
30m
Live Q&A
Interactive Music and Synchronous Reactive Programming
Research Papers
Bertrand Petit INRIA, France, Manuel Serrano Inria, France
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16:00
30m
Live Q&A
Programming Paradigms, Turing Completeness and Computational Thinking
Research Papers
Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University
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Thu 25 Mar

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17:30 - 19:00
Session 13Research Papers at Virtual Space B
Chair(s): Jens Lincke Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
17:30
30m
Live Q&A
Interactive Music and Synchronous Reactive Programming
Research Papers
Bertrand Petit INRIA, France, Manuel Serrano Inria, France
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18:00
30m
Live Q&A
Capturing High-level Nondeterminism in Concurrent Programs for Practical Concurrency Model Agnostic Record & Replay
Research Papers
Dominik Aumayr Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Stefan Marr University of Kent, Sophie Kaleba University of Kent, Elisa Gonzalez Boix Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Hanspeter Mössenböck JKU Linz, Austria
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18:30
30m
Live Q&A
Transparent Compiler and Runtime Specializations for Accelerating Managed Languages on FPGAs
Research Papers
Michail Papadimitriou University of Manchester, UK, Juan Fumero University of Manchester, UK, Athanasios Stratikopoulos The University of Manchester, Foivos S. Zakkak Red Hat, Inc., Christos Kotselidis KTM Innovation / The University of Manchester
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