2023/08/04 by Danbinaerin Han, Han, Danbinaerin, Rafael Caro Repetto +3 · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Diverse Musicological Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.02249
openalex publication_date 2023/08/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we introduce a computational analysis of the field recording dataset of approximately 700 hours of Korean folk songs, which were recorded around 1980-90s. Because most of the songs were sung by non-expert musicians without accompaniment, the dataset provides several challenges. To address this challenge, we utilized self-supervised learning with convolutional neural network based on pitch contour, then analyzed how the musical concept of tori, a classification system defined by a specific scale, ornamental notes, and an idiomatic melodic contour, is captured by the model. The experimental result shows that our approach can better capture the characteristics of tori compared to traditional pitch histograms. Using our approaches, we have examined how musical discussions proposed in existing academia manifest in the actual field recordings of Korean folk songs.