| HC-278112-21 | Digital Humanities: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Digital Humanities) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | New Directions in Digital Jazz Studies: Music Information Retrieval and AI Support for Jazz Scholarship in Digital Archives | 2/1/2021 - 1/31/2025 | $149,031.00 | Gayle | Sherwood | Magee | Adriana | | Cuervo | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2020 | Music History and Criticism | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Digital Humanities) | Digital Humanities | 149031 | 0 | 149031 | 0 | The development of artificial intelligence and music information retrieval tools and archival workflows to enhance access to archival jazz collections, including those held by the US Institute of Jazz Studies and the Scottish Jazz Archive. The UK partner, City, University of London, is requesting £199,659 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
New Directions in Digital Jazz Studies uses state of the art music information retrieval and artificial intelligence algorithms for the analysis of jazz recordings and linked data to enable novel approaches to co-creative use of materials in the archival collections of the Institute of Jazz Studies and Scottish Jazz Archive. This trans-Atlantic collaboration between jazz historians, technologists, and jazz archivists will expand access to unique materials held in archives and illuminate their musical relationships to more widely studied recordings. This project will create, analyse, and visualize relationships between audio and other materials and create rich research workflows to be shared within the scholarly community as a novel way to support co-creation with cultural institutions. We envision a disciplinary transformation through the discovery of new models for jazz historiography, and a broader, interdisciplinary transformation in methodology for digital humanities |