Computer-Human Interactive Performance Symposium (CHIPS)

流行音乐（如民谣、摇滚、音乐剧）在数百万人的生活中发挥着核心作用。从业余到专业的各种水平的音乐家都在制作音乐，这些音乐可以在收音机和电视上听到，也可以在音乐霍尔斯和剧院演出。青少年有动力学习乐器和在乐队中演奏，以模仿他们的专业偶像，严肃的业余爱好者在开放麦克风之夜，慈善音乐会和教堂中一起演奏和唱歌，专业人士在俱乐部，剧院和多媒体节目中表演，如太阳马戏团和蓝人集团。学习、排练和表演流行音乐通常需要音乐家成为合奏团的一员，但组建这样一个团体可能具有挑战性，特别是对业余音乐家来说。即使是在教堂这样的成熟社区，日常生活的要求意味着音乐家不能总是参加排练或定期一起演奏。在专业合奏中，疾病可能导致主要音乐家缺席排练或表演。计算机音乐技术提供了在这些情况下替代音乐家的潜力，但可靠，强大，简单的系统，可以快速设置，并发挥音乐和创造性还不存在。为了更广泛地关注这一重要且潜在的高影响力问题，CHIPS项目将围绕流行音乐的计算机-人类表演形成一个感兴趣的网络。其目的是了解和塑造未来的研究议程，通过学习相关背景下的技术采用经验，了解流行音乐表演的技术状态，并想象未来的表演实践，将计算机“音乐家”。该项目的重点将是一个专题讨论会，在此之前和之后通过网络进行协作讨论，其长期目标是建立一个感兴趣的网络，随后在该领域的相关主要国际会议上组织一系列自我维持的专题讨论会或工作会议。

Popular music (e.g. folk, rock, music theatre) plays a central role in the lives of millions of people. Musicians of all standards from amateur to professional produce music that is heard on radios and televisions, and performed in concert halls and theatres. Teenagers are motivated to learn instruments and play in bands to emulate their professional idols, serious amateurs play and sing together at open-mike nights, charity concerts, and in churches, and professionals perform in clubs, theatres, and multimedia shows like Cirque du Soleil and the Blue Man Group. To learn, rehearse, and perform popular music often requires a musician to be part of an ensemble yet forming such a group can be challenging, particularly for amateur musicians. Even in established communities such as churches, the demands of everyday life mean that musicians cannot always attend rehearsals or play regularly together. In professional ensembles, illness can cause the absence of key musicians in rehearsal or performance. Computer music technology offers the potential to substitute for musicians in these situations, yet reliable, robust, and simple systems that can be quickly set up, and that play musically and creatively do not yet exist. To focus broader attention on this significant and potentially high-impact problem, the CHIPS project will form a network of interest around the computer-human performance of popular music. The aim is to understand and shape the future research agenda by learning from experiences of technological adoption in relevant contexts, understanding the technological state of the art in relation to popular music performance, and imagining future performance practices incorporating computer "musicians". The focus of the project will be a symposium, supported before and after by web-enabled collaborative discussion, and with the longer-term aim of establishing a network of interest to subsequently organise a self-sustaining series of symposia or working sessions at relevant major international conferences in the field.