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Towards Automatic Transcription of Australian Aboriginal Music
Towards Automatic Transcription of Australian Aboriginal Music
ABORIGINAL MUSIC
Anthony Senyard
Andrew Nesbit 1 Lloyd Hollenberg
Dept of Computer Science
School of Physics School of Physics
and Software Engineering
University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
Australia Australia
Australia
Clapsticks
Classification Independent
and component
reconstruction analysis (ICA)
Figure 3. Kila kanggi: Our mother excerpt reference tran-
scription (lirrga 1). Track 1 from CD [11]. Song text c composed
Harmonic audio by Clement Tchinburrur, sung by Pius Luckan, recorded by Chester
Street, Pt Keats, 1985. Musical transcription c Linda Barwick, Univer-
sity of Sydney, 2002. Marri Ngarr morphemic analysis and translation
Figure 2. Independent subspace analysis [15] c Lysbeth Ford, BIITE, 2002. Reproduced with permission.
Figure 6. Father Deakin excerpt reference transcription This gives an overall accuracy of 93% for correctly
(lirrga 4). Track 5 from CD [11]. Song text c composed by Clement classified clapstick tracks.
Tchinburrur, sung by Pius Luckan, recorded by Chester Street, Pt Keats,
1985. Musical transcription c Linda Barwick, University of Sydney,
2002. Marri Ngarr morphemic analysis and translation c Lysbeth Ford,
BIITE, 2002. Reproduced with permission. 4. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK