IEEE 1599: MUSIC ENCODING AND

INTERACTION

PRESENTED BYSHUVRADEB BARMAN SRIJON [0507044]

UNDERGRAD STUDENT OF CSE@KUET, KHULNA, BD

Goffredo HausUniversity of Milan, Italy

Original Article By

Denis BaggiUniversity for Applied Science of Southern Switzerland

WHAT IS IEEE 1599 IEEE 1599 is a new standard to encode

Multilayer music with XML symbols, was proposed to the IEEE Standards Association in 2001.

IEEE  1599  is  the  result  of  the  research  efforts  of  the  IEEE  Standards AssociationWorking Group  on ʺMusic Application  of  XMLʺ. The work has been endorsed by the  international research program Intelligent  Manufacturing  Systems.

BASIC FEATURES

Two features distinguish IEEE 1599 from any other standard or encodingThe encoding is in the form of symbols that

can be read both by machines and humans. It allows the realization of applications in

which all aspects of music, such as audio and sound, graphical representation, historical data, performance indications, represented by the new concept of layers, are fully integrated, synchronized.

DIFFERENT LAYERS

General Layermusic‐related metadata, i.e. catalogue

information about the piece Logic Layer

Contains symbolic contents, as well as the Spine, with Logically Organized Symbols (LOS)

Structural LayerIdentification of music objects and their 

mutual relationships 

DIFFERENT LAYERS

Notational LayerGraphical representations of the score

Performance LayerComputer‐based descriptions and

executions of music according to performance languages

Audio LayerDigital or digitized recordings of the piece

DIFFERENT LAYERSIl mio ben quando verràNina o sia la pazza per amore by G. Paisiello

General

Logic

Structural

Notational

Performance

Audio

INTERACTION OF LAYERS

GENERAL STRUCTURE A generic IEEE 1599 document presents an

XML structure similar to the one shown below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE ieee1599 SYSTEM "http://www.mx.dico.unimi.it/ieee1599.dtd">

<ieee1599>

<general>...</general>

<logic>...</logic>

<structural>...</structural>

<notational>...</notational>

<performance>...</performance>

<audio>...</audio>

</ieee1599>

WHAT IS SPINE The spine is a sort of glue needed in a multi-layer

framework. In this approach, heterogeneous descriptions of the same music piece are not simply linked together

<ieee1599> <logic> <spine> <event id="e1" timing="0" hpos="0"/> <event id="e2" timing="2" hpos="2"/> <event id="e3" timing="2" hpos="2"/> <event id="e4" timing="1" hpos="1"/> <event id="e5" timing="1" hpos="1"/> ... </spine> <los>...</los> </logic> </ieee1599>

HOW SPINE BINDS

<spine> ... <event id="e5“... /> ... </spine>

APPLICATION OF IEEE 1599

Multilayer music composition Composing Jazz & Blues chords Embedding Audio & Instrumental

chords More interactive Music composition

using image & video clips

APPLICATION USING IEEE 1599

APPLICATION USING IEEE 1599

CONCLUSION

IEEE 1599 introduces a new era of music encoding technology in which music is not only the recorded audio to listen. Its further implementation improves the experience of Music Enthusiast.

REFERENCES

IEEE Computer , March 2009 Proceedings ELPUB2009 Conference o

n Electronic Publishing, Milan, Italy, June 2009

G Haus, M Longari, “A Multi-Layered Time-Based Music Description Approach based on XML”, Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, Spring issue, 2005.