Music as a Material for Information Science Education and Research (Delivered in English)
- LecturerProf. Tetsuro Kitahara (Department of Computer Science and System Analysis, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University)
Host: Li Su - Time2026-06-04 (Thu.) 10:30 ~ 12:30
- LocationAuditorium 106 at IIS new Building
Abstract
Music is one of the most popular forms of art, entertainment, and self-expression. At the same time, music—especially Western music—is well suited to computer-based analysis and processing because symbolic notation systems have been well established. Since our laboratory was founded in 2010, we have used music as a platform for information science education and research. Music provides a suitable domain for learning programming, signal processing, and machine learning. In addition, because many students have personal experience with music, they can easily develop highly motivated research projects. In this talk, we introduce several examples of music-related research projects conducted in our laboratory.
BIO
Tetsuro Kitahara is a professor at Nihon University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2007. From 2008 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Kwansei Gakuin University. He joined Nihon University in 2010 and has been a professor there since 2020. His research interests cover a wide range of topics in sound and music computing.