>InterSinging 2010 The following schedule is tentative and flexible. (updated, 28/September/2010)
1st October (Friday) 13:10 Registration starts 13:30 Opening remark: Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University, Japan) 13:40 [Invited talk] "Singing Information Processing Systems(歌う情報処理システム)": Masataka Goto (AIST Japan) 14:30 "VOCALOID and Hatsune Miku phenomenon in Japan(日本でのボーカロイド初音ミク現象)", Hideki Kenmochi == short break == 15:10 "Automatic Song Composition from Japanese Lyrics with Singing Voice Synthesizer" Satoru Fukayama, Kei Nakatsuma, Shinji Sako, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono and Shigeki Sagayama 15:40 "A Singing Robot Realized by a Collaboration of VOCALOID and Cybernetic Human HRP-4C(ボーカロイドとサイバネティックヒューマン「HRP-4C」による歌唱ロボットの理解)" Makoto Tachibana, Shin'ichiro Nakaoka, Hideki Kenmochi == short break == 16:10 Hands-on demonstrations on singing voice systems (welcome for proposals) Orpheus: Satoru Furukawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) SingBySpeaking: Takeshi Saitou (Kanazawa University, Japan) TANDEM-STRAIGHT and multi-aspect morphing for singing voice: Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University, Japan) Vocal Dynamics Controller: Yasunori Ohishi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) 17:10 Discussions on singing voice technologies
2nd October (Saturday) 9:10 [Invited talk] "Physiological basis of singing voice": Ken-ichi Sakakibara (Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Japan) 10:00 "Vocal fold vibration in lamenting, speaking and singing" Margarita Mazo, Ken-ichi Sakakibara, Hiroshi Imagawa, Niro Tayama and Donna Erickson == short break == 10:40 "Linguistic and Para-Linguistic Mechanisms of Production in Human ‘Beatboxing’: a Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study" Michael Proctor and Shrikanth Narayanan 11:10 "Ah, how sweet the sound: Some acoustic characteristics of emotionally sung /ah/" Donna Erickson, Tomoe Suzuki, Kayo Tanosaki, Kuniyo Yahiro, Eri Haneishi & Hiroko Kishimoto == short break == 11:50 "Singing Voice Enhancement for Monaural Music Signals Based on Multiple Time-Frequency Analysis" Hideyuki Tachibana, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, 12:20 "Resurrecting past singers: Non-Parallel Singing-Voice Conversion(過去の歌手を蘇らせる:非並列歌唱音声変換)" Fernando Villavicencio, Hideki Kenmochi 13:00 Discussions for future plan 13:20 Closing remark
2010年10月9日(土)、10日(日)に、音楽を楽しみ、創る、ミュージックメディアの祭典「シンセサイザーフェスタ2010」(Synthesizer Festa 2010)が西新宿 芸能花伝舎 創造スペースにて開催予定となっているそうだが、そこにボカロなセミナーがいくつか予定されているようだ。セミナーについては「受講料は無料です。セミナー受講にはネットによる事前予約か当日配布する整理券が必要です。」とのことなので、参加したい人は予約…よのさ^^