Music Cultures Opened Up by Music Technologies

Music technologies have opened up various music cultures. For example, any musical instruments such as guitar, piano, and sound synthesizers were originally invented by state-of-the-art music technologies and have had huge influences on music cultures.This keynote talk will demonstrate several practical systems such as VocaListener that can synthesize natural singing voices by analyzing and imitating human singing, VocaWatcher that can generate realistic facial motions of a humanoid robot, Songle (http://songle.jp) that has analyzed more than 840,000 songs on music or video-sharing services and facilitates deeper understanding of music and music-synchronized control of robot dancers, and Songrium (http://songrium.jp) that allows users to explore music while seeing and utilizing various relations among more than 690,000 music video clips on video-sharing services.