Musical Data Mining for Electronic Music Distribution

  • Authors:
  • F. Pachet;G. Westermann;D. Laigre

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WEDELMUSIC '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music (WEDELMUSIC'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Music classification is a key ingredient for electronicmusic distribution. Because of the lack of standards inmusic classification - or the lack of enforcement ofexisting standards - there is a huge amount ofunclassified titles of music in the world. In this paper wepropose a method of classification based on musical datamining technique based on co-occurrence and correlationanalysis that can be used for classification. It gives a newapproach of similarity between several titles of music orseveral artists. We study large corpora of textualinformation referring titles of music or artists whosenames are decided by humans without particularconstraints other than readability, and draw varioushypotheses concerning the natural similarities thatemerge from these corpora. Based on a clusteringtechnique, we show that interesting groups can revealspecific music genres and allow classifying titles of musicin a kind of objective manner.