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A Visualization Tool for the CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series

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The CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture (DL) series consists of over seventy 1-h videos of leading scholars and artists discussing their interdisciplinary work, a unique video encyclopedia of Music, Science and Technology. Though this collection in itself is already an invaluable research and pedagogical tool, searching videos in the collection is not a trivial task given the diversity of fields and topics. To facilitate the navigation in the collection, we developed a visualization tool representing textual metadata of videos in a hierarchical bubble chart. In this paper we describe the distinguished lecture series and discuss the iterative prototyping of the visualization tool, as well as avenues for future developments.

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    http://www.cirmmt.org.

  2. 2.

    http://www.cirmmt.org/research/axes.

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    https://www.youtube.com/c/CIRMMT.

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    live@CIRMMT concert videos, although regularly recorded, are unfortunately not available to the public due to more complex copyright management.

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    http://www.cirmmt.org/video.

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    Issues such as the availability of theatrical lighting for videos were not initially considered. The result was that sometimes the speaker was barely seen in the videos due to the high intensity of the slide projector. Similarly, given that the talks typically took place in the late afternoon in a room with several windows, daylight changes between the beginning and the end of the talks did cause drastic light variations.

  7. 7.

    Until then, students filming the lectures did it in a volunteer basis. Editing of the early recordings was mostly done by the CIRMMT administrator or by a professional editor.

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    The visualization tool is available from http://www.cirmmt.org/video.

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Acknowledgments

The CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series and the visualizations presented in this paper are a joint effort of dozens of people that started some 15 years ago.

Essential players in establishing and maintaining the DL series include former and current CIRMMT directors & associate directors (Stephen McAdams, Sean Ferguson, Gary Scavone, Isabelle Cossette, Fabrice Marandola, Catherine Guastavino, Jean Piché and Jérémie Voix) and staff (Sara Gomez, Jacqueline Bednar, Julien Boissinot, Yves Méthot, Harold Kilianski and Sylvain Pohu, among others), as well as axis leaders, student representatives and the dozens of students involved in the organization, recording and editing of the lectures, and the creation of the dataset.

Thanks also to the other graduate students who took the seminar MUMT620 in the winter of 2019: Mark Bennett, Mathias Kirkegaard, Josh Rohs and Evan Savage.

Thanks to Michael McGuffin and Guillaume Boutard for many suggestions for future work and to Isabelle Cossette and Jacqueline Bednar for commenting on this manuscript.

Funding allowing for the development of the final visualization prototype was provided through a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant to the first author.

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  1. Input Devices and Musical Interaction Laboratory - IDMIL, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology - CIRMMT, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Marcelo M. Wanderley, Mathias Bredholt & Christian Frisson

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  1. Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

    Sakae Yamamoto

  2. Tokyo City University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hirohiko Mori

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Wanderley, M.M., Bredholt, M., Frisson, C. (2020). A Visualization Tool for the CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series. In: Yamamoto, S., Mori, H. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Designing Information. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50020-7_10

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