Research

I work on music theory, analysis, and composition, almost (but not always) using computational methods of one kind of another.

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New/Featured
All Publications
Recent Invited Talks
Some Posters and Videos

Feature

Much of the recent work centres on the creation, curation, and analysis of musical dataset, particularly human analyses in encoded formats. For example, for harmonic analysis I’ve been curation the “When in Rome” meta-corpus which and used that for …

research projects using that data for automatic harmonic analysis with machine learning.
- See especially “Augmentednet” (Paper, Poster, Video)
- … and before that “Not all Roads lead to Rome”
- … as well as related tasks studies like What if the When implies the What? (Paper, Poster, Video)
research on that data in itself (“Chromatic Chords in Theory and Practice ” ISMIR 2023, coming soon)
pedagogical / public-facing anthology as discussed here and provided as part of the Open Music Theory textbook here

Publications

Published and Indexed

Lists of indexed publications are available in all the usual places: publications are available in all the usual places:

No need to repeat all of that content here!

Published recently, not well indexed ^

“Old Sources in new Sauces: John Joubert and the Analysis of Ancient Materials in Modern Music”. Intégral, vol.36, 2023. Paper HTML, Paper PDF
Gotham, Mark R. H.; Song, Kunpeng; Böhlefeld, Nicolai; Elgammal, Ahmed: Beethoven X: Es könnte sein! (It could be!), AIMC 2022. Paper. Video

Coming soon (all in press for 2023 publication)

Gotham, Micchi, Nápoles López, & Sailor 2023 (in press): “When in Rome”, TISMIR (exp.2023)
Derek Remeš, Victor Duy Phan, & Mark Gotham: “Clausulae-Pairs in Multiple-Bass Chorales” in Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation and Thematic Techniques, (Jeffrey Swinkin ed).

Invited Talks

Current/recent invited talks provide an indication of other groups working in related areas. Thanks to all the collaborators and hosts involved!

Coming soon in 2024:
- Invited talk at & participation in Dagstuhl Seminar 24302: Learning with Music Signals: Technology Meets Education., DE
2023, Autumn:
- Invited talk at the German national musicology conference (GfM) , DE
- University of Michigan, USA
2023, Spring:
- Keynote @ the 10th International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC 2023), Treviso, IT
- York University, UK
- Eastman School of Music, U. of Rochester, NY, USA
2022, Autumn:
- Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, NL
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, AT
- Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz, AT
- Université de Lille, FR
2022, Spring-Summer:
- Mutter-Beethoven-Haus, Koblenz: ‘Understanding Beethoven: Musicology and Computer Science in Dialogue’, DE
- Technische Universität Dortmund: flagship ‚TU Dortmund im Gespräch‘ series, DE
- Trier Centre for Digital Humanities, DE, DE
2021
- Volkswagen (VW AG), Innovation Group, DE
- University of Salzburg and Mozarteum University joint “Music & Math” seminar series, AT
- Eastman School of Music, U. of Rochester, Workshop/talk on computation in music, NY, USA
2020
- Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM, the largest gathering of statisticians and data scientists held in North America): Part of a Topic Contributed Session (TCS) on statistics in music. Joint paper with Ahmed Elgammal; session organiser: Jan Beran, USA
- Karajan Music Tech Conference, AT

Posters and Videos

Some talks and related conference videos can be viewed on YouTube here. Here are a few recent papers that come with posters and short video summaries:

Short Title & paper/poster link	Venue; Year	Video

Chromatic chords in theory and practice Paper, Poster	ISMIR; 2023
Musical Micro-Timing for Live Coding Paper, Poster	ISMIR; 2023
Musical Genre Recognition Paper, Poster	EvoMUSART; 2023	N/a
What if the When implies the What? Paper, Poster	ISMIR; 2021
Augmentednet Paper Poster	ISMIR; 2021
Discourse Not Dualism Paper, Poster, & More	ISMIR; 2020