National Association of Music Merchants Convention: Two Views

bolic" approach to musical knowledge representation. The study, using fine-grain computer systems, sheds new light on recent findings concerning the perceptual structures involved in the processing of tonal music. Leman presented some interesting simulations based on an implementation of Kohonen's work with feature maps and self-organizing neural networks. After lunch, N. Zahler (Connecticut College) presented "The Al Computer Performer: The Second Generation (AICP)." This is a software system that listens to and accompanies the musician. AICP uses both heuristics written by the author and tracking algorithms developed by R. Dannenberg and B. Vercoe. The final session featured a paper by H. Charnass6 (CNRS) proposing a cognitive approach to the interpretation of thirteenth-century German lute tablature.