Some Projects and Reflections on Algorithmic Music.- Real-Time Beat EstimationUsing Feature Extraction.- Towards a General Architecture for Musical Archive Information Systems.- The Study of Musical Scales in Central Africa: The Use of Interactive Experimental Methods.- Evolving Automatically High-Level Music Descriptors from Acoustic Signals.- 'Ambiguous Live' - Exploring Collaborative, Dynamic Control of MIDI Sequencers.- Characterization of Musical Performance Using Physical Sound Synthesis Models.- Conserving an Ancient Art of Music: Making SID Tunes Editable.- "GMU" - An Integrated Microsound Synthesis System.- What Are We Looking for?.- Extraction of Structural Patterns in Popular Melodies.- Musical Pattern Extraction Using Genetic Algorithms.- Automatic Extraction of Approximate Repetitions in Polyphonic Midi Files Based on Perceptive Criteria.- Deriving Musical Structures from Signal Analysis for Music Audio Summary Generation: "Sequence" and "State" Approach.- Musical Style Classification from Symbolic Data: A Two-Styles Case Study.- FMF(Fast Melody Finder): A Web-Based Music Retrieval System.- The Representation Levels of Music Information.- "Leçons": An Approach to a System for Machine Learning, Improvisation and Musical Performance.- About the Role of Mapping in Gesture-Controlled Live Computer Music.- Designing Musical Interfaces with Composition in Mind.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Symposium, CMMR 2003, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2003.
The 20 revised full papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the area, the papers address a broad variety of topics including information retrieval, programming, human-computer interaction, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence, acoustics, signal processing, etc. The book comes with a CD-ROM presenting supplementary material for the papers included.