Dr. Anja Volk (former Fleischer)

Postdoctoral Researcher
WITCHCRAFT project
University of Utrecht
Department of Information and Computing Sciences

postal address:
Postbus 94264
1090 GG Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel.:+31(20) 4628507
Fax +31(20) 4628555
Email: anja . volk "(at)" meertens . knaw . nl





















Education

2002 Ph.D. in Musicology at Humboldt University Berlin: The Analytic Interpretation (download pdf here, for English abstract click here,)

1998 Master ("Diploma") in Mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin.

1996 Master ("Magistra Artium") in Musicology at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Employment

since 2006: PostDoc in the WITCHCRAFT project at the University of Utrecht and the Meertens Institute Amsterdam.

2003- 2005: Postdoctoral Fellow in the MuCoaCo-group at the Integrated Media Systems Center, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.

1998-2003: Research Assistant and PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Research Group for Mathematical Music Theory at the Technical University Berlin.

Research Interests

Recent Publications

P. van Kranenburg, J. Garbers, A. Volk, F. Wiering, L.P. Grijp, R.C. Veltkamp (2009). Collaboration Perspectives for Folk Song Research and Music Information Retrieval: The indispensable Role of Computational Musicology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 2009, doi: 10.4407/jims.2009.12.030,  [pdf]

F. Wiering, J. de Nooijer, A. Volk, H. J.M. Tabachneck-Schijf (2009). Cognition-based Segmentation for Music Information Retrieval Systems. Journal of New Music Research 38(2), 2009, 139–154. [pdf]

A. Honingh and A. Volk (2009), Mathematische muziektheorie: Nieuwe mogelijkheden voor muziekgerelateerd onderzoek. Dutch Journal of Music Theory, 14(3), 181-193. [download]

P. van Kranenburg, A. Volk, F. Wiering, R. C. Veltkamp. Musical Models for Folk-Song Melody Alignment, Proceedings of the International Society on Music Information Retrieval conference, 2009, Kobe, Japan, 507-512. [pdf]

Anja Volk (2008), The Study of Syncopation using Inner Metric Analysis: Linking Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Metre in Music, In: Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 37:4, p. 259-273.[pdf]

Anja Volk (2008), Persistence and Change: Local and Global Components of Metre Induction using Inner Metric Analysis, In: Journal of Mathematics and Computation in Music, Vol. 2:2, p. 99-115. [Download Preprint of the article]  Final version can be downloaded under: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17459730802312399 or send an email to me for the final version.

Anja Volk and Elaine Chew (2008), Reconsidering the Affinity between Metric and Tonal Structures in Brahms' Capriccio Op. 76, No. 8, In: Computing in Musicology, Vol. 15. [pdf]

A. Volk, P. van Kranenburg, J. Garbers, F. Wiering, R.C. Veltkamp, L.P. Grijp, A manual annotation method for melodic similarity and the study of melody feature sets, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2008, Philadelphia, USA, 101-106. [pdf]

Justin de Nooijer, Frans Wiering, Anja Volk, Hermi J.M. Tabachneck-Schijf (2008), An experimental comparison of human and automatic music segmentation, In: Proceedings of the International  Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 10). Sapporo.

Justin de Nooijer, Frans Wiering, Anja Volk, Hermi J.M. Tabachneck-Schijf (2008), Cognition-based segmentation for music information retrieval systems. In: C. Tsougras, R. Parncutt (eds.), Proceedings of the fourth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM08), http://web.auth.gr/cim08. [pdf]

Anja Volk, Jörg Garbers, Peter van Kranenburg, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp, Louis P. Grijp (2007),  Applying Rhythmic Similarity based on Inner Metric Analysis to Folksong Research, Proceedings of the 8th ISMIR conference, Vienna. [pdf]

Peter van Kranenburg, Jörg Garbers, Anja Volk, Frans Wiering, Louis P. Grijp, Remco C. Veltkamp (2007), Towards Integration of MIR and Folk Song Research Proceedings of the 8th ISMIR conference, Vienna. [pdf]

Jörg Garbers, Peter van Kranenburg, Anja Volk, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp, Louis P. Grijp (2007), Using pitch stability among a group of aligned query melodies to retrieve unidentified variant melodies, Proceedings of the 8th ISMIR conference, Vienna.[pdf]

Aaron C. Yang, Elaine Chew and Anja Volk (2005), A Dynamic Programming Approach to Adaptive Tatum Assignment for Rhythm Transcription, First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2005), Irvine, CA, December 12-14.

Anja Volk (2005): Modeling a Processive Perspective on Meter in Music. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona.[pdf]

Anja Volk (2005): Coffee Bean (and other) Models about the Metric Structure of Music. In: Sebastian Bab, et. al. (eds.): Models and Human Reasoning - Bernd Mahr zum 60. Geburtstag. W&T Verlag, Berlin.[pdf]

Chew, Elaine, Volk (Fleischer), Anja and Lee, Chia-Ying (2005), Dance Music Classification Using Inner Metric Analysis: a computational approach and case study using 101 Latin American Dances and National Anthems. in The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization and Decision Technologies: Proceedings of the 9th INFORMS Computer Society Conference. Bruce Golden, S. Raghavan, Edward Wasil (eds.) Kluwer.  ICS2005, Annapolis, MD, Jan 5-7, 2005.[pdf]

Noll, Thomas and Anja Volk (2005), Transformational Logic of Dissonances, In: Bernd Enders (ed.): Musik, Mathematik und Technik. Volkswagenstiftung.

Anja Volk (2004), Exploring the Interaction of Pulse Layers Regarding their Influence on Metrical Accents, In: S.D. Lipscomb et al.(eds): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Evanston, IL.[pdf]

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Invited Lectures



Feb 2009: Mathematics and the Groove in Music, Nationale Wiskunde Dagen, Noordwijkerhout.

March 2007: The Study of Persistence and Change in Meter using Inner Metric Analysis, ISMS seminar, Goldsmiths, University of London.

January 2007: Applying inner metric analysis to rhythm perception, analysis and classification, Music Cognition Reading Group, University of Amsterdam.

October 2004: Lecture “Inner Metric Analysis - The investigation of metric structures in relation to music theory and cognition” at the Pomona College Music Department, California.

August 2004: Lecture: “On Meter, Pulse, Accent and Harmony” at the University of Chicago Department of Music.

May 2004: Lecture “Ragtime, Fugue or Madrigal: Describing Metric Peculiarities with a Computational Approach” at the CCRMA Stanford University.


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Presentations at Conferences


July 2008: Cognition-based segmentation for music information retrieval systems, CIM4, Thessaloniki.

September 2007: Applying Rhythmic Similarity based on Inner Metric Analysis to Folksong Research, 8th ISMIR conference, Vienna.

June 2007: Rhythmic Similarity in the Oral Tradition of Folk Songs,  11th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Dublin.

May 2007: Applying Inner Metric Analysis to 20th century compositions, conference Mathematics and Computation in Music, Berlin.

May 2007: Comparing Computational Approaches to Rhythmic and Melodic Similarity In Folksong Research, conference Mathematics and Computation in Music, Berlin.

October 2006: Creating a Search Engine for Folksongs... and Other Music, Workshop Music, Mathematics and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

August 2006: Muugle: A Framework for the Comparison of Music Information Retrieval Methods, 9th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition in Bologna.

June 2006: Rhythm in Music as a Dynamic Process, interdisciplinary conference “Rhythm, Time and Temporal Organisation” organized by the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, Edinburgh

September 2005: Modeling a Processive Perspective on Meter in Music. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona.
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