Conference Program

Times are given in local conference time (JST).

Program Overview:

Tuesday, 26 May 2026: Workshops & Opening

Wednesday, 27 May 2026: Conference Day 1

Thursday, 28 May 2026: Conference Day 2

Friday, 29 May 2026: Unconference & Community Meeting

Tuesday, 26 May 2026: Workshops & Opening ↑

10:00am - 1:00pm

Parallel Sessions

Beyond Notation: Encoding Black Creative Lineages and DAW-Based Composition Practices Parallel

Tika Simone
Iverna Island, Canada

Music Alignment Uncovered: Representations, Algorithms and Hands-On Tools Parallel

Carlos Cancino-Chacón¹, Jiyun Park², Silvan Peter¹, Yigitcan Özer³, Suhit Chiruthapudi¹
1: Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
2: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
3: National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Music encoding with mei-friend Parallel

Anna Plaksin¹, David M. Weigl², Werner Goebl²
1: KreativInstitut.OWL, Paderborn University, Germany
2: Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil (IWK) mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
1:00pm - 2:00pm Break
2:00pm - 5:00pm

Parallel Sessions

Approaches to Musical Performance Research: Techniques, Formats, Software Parallel

Frithjof Bömcke-Vollmer², Silvan Peter¹, Patricia Hu¹, Yucong Jiang³, Carlos Cancino-Chacón¹, Werner Goebl⁴, Lars Engeln², Andreas Münzmay², Johannes Hentschel⁵, David M. Weigl⁴, Axel Berndt²
1: Johannes Kepler University, Austria
2: Paderborn University / Detmold University of Music: Musicology Seminar Detmold–Paderborn
3: University of Richmond, USA
4: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
5: Bruckner University, Austria

Fingering Encoding and Performance Experience for Robo-Sax Parallel

Masatoshi Hamanaka¹, Gou Koutaki²
1: RIKEN, Japan
2: Kumamoto University, Japan

Interactive music encoding with Verovio Parallel

Laurent Pugin, Andrew Hankinson
RISM Digital Center, Switzerland

Minimal Publishing of Multimodal Sources: Integrating MEI, TEI, and More Parallel

Torsten Roeder, Fabian C. Moss
Universität Würzburg, Germany
5:00pm - 5:30pm Break
5:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome and opening keynote
Location: First Forum (B1)

Wednesday, 27 May 2026: Conference Day 1 ↑

9:30am - 10:45am Communities in music making, editing and pedagogy
Location: First Forum (B1)

From Encoding to Empathy: Virtual Choirs as Data for Digital Musicology

Ingrida Alondere
Vilnius city municipality choir Jauna Muzika, Lithuania

Towards Crowd-Encoding and Validation of Music Scores: Contexts and Use-Cases

David M. Weigl¹, Chanda VanderHart², Werner Goebl¹
1: mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
2: mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria / University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria

Strategic Coalition Building to Expand MEI Pedagogy: Citizen Science, Participation, and Boundary-Transgressing Encoding Practices

Jessica Grimmer¹, Joshua Neumann², Tim Duguid³
1: University of Maryland, United States of America
2: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Germany
3: University of Glasgow, Scotland

Encoding the Musical Legacy of Jacob J. Sawyer (1856-1885): Establishing the First MEI Corpus of a 19th-Century African-American Composer

Nico Schüler
Texas State University, United States of America
10:45am - 11:30am Rapid poster presentations
Location: First Forum (B1)
11:30am - 12:00pm ☕ Coffee break
12:00pm - 1:30pm Posters and Showcases
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch break
2:30pm - 4:00pm Corpora and Complications
Location: First Forum (B1)

From Manuscript to MEI: Challenges and Solutions in Encoding Early 20th-Century Lithuanian Sacred Music

dr. Imantas Jonas Šimkus
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Mixed Notation vs. Transitional Notation: Creating a small encoded corpus of John Dowland songs

Anna Plaksin, William Lepp, Annabelle Mueller, Nils Jesse Schäfer, Sophie Stremel
Paderborn University, Germany

The Extending MEI for Indigenous Sound Archives: Encoding the 1967 Truku Field Recordings

Liang Lee
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Encoding the Modernization of Tradition: Alignment Strategies for Gagaku Score and Staff Notation

Shintaro Seki
RIKEN, Japan
4:00pm - 4:30pm ☕ Coffee break
4:30pm - 6:00pm Tools
Location: First Forum (B1)

Diplomatic rendering with Thulemeier - Digital Fac-similes for MEI

Johannes Kepper¹, Richard Sänger²
1: Beethovens Werkstatt, Paderborn University, Germany
2: Beethovens Werkstatt, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Germany

Handling repetition structures in music encodings: Realising expansions with Verovio

Werner Goebl¹, David M. Weigl¹, Iacopo Cividini², Laurent Pugin³
1: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
2: Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation, Austria
3: RISM Digital Center, Switzerland

Revisiting the (Deep Optical) Measure Detector

Alexander Nguyen^1,2, Nikolaos Beer²
1: Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology, Karlsruhe University of Music, Germany
2: Max-Reger-Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany

The Benchmark for Encoding Assessment in Music (BEAM): Evaluating LLM Performance in Symbolic Music Parsing

Liam Pond^1,2, Tace McNamara³, Ichiro Fujinaga^1,2
1: McGill University
2: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
3: Monash University
7:00pm - 10:00pm Dinner

Thursday, 28 May 2026: Conference Day 2 ↑

9:30am - 11:30am Notations and traditions
Location: First Forum (B1)

On Every Note a Griff: Looking for a Useful Representation of Basso Continuo Performance Style

Adam Štefunko¹, Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón², Jan Hajič jr.¹
1: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Czech Republic (Czechia)
2: Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Beyond OHCO: Introducing the MEI-notredame Customisation

Joshua Stutter
Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Encoding Guqin Jianzipu: A Gesture-Based MEI Module for a Logographic Notation

Yifan Huang, Eto Sun, Ichiro Fujinaga
McGill University, Canada

Microtonal support in Verovio

Karim Ratib
Not affiliated, Canada
11:30am - 12:00pm ☕ Coffee break
12:00pm - 1:30pm Managing and cataloguing music data
Location: First Forum (B1)

Understanding artefacts of Renaissance polyphony: towards an ontology

Erik Bergwall¹, Marnix van Berchum²
1: Uppsala University, Sweden
2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Bibliographic Readiness of Digital Music Editions

Daniel Jettka, Hizkiel Alemayehu, Daniel Röwenstrunk, Kristin Herold
Universität Paderborn, Germany

GitHub Actions in Action: Workflow Automation for Digital Music Research and Editions

Julia Maria Jaklin¹, Henning Burghoff², David M. Weigl³
1: TU Wien
2: University of Vienna
3: mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Plaine and Easie(r)

Andrew Hankinson, Rodolfo Zitellini, Laurent Pugin
RISM Digital Center, Switzerland
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch break
2:30pm - 4:00pm Annotation
Location: First Forum (B1)

A Context-Aware Piano Performance Encoding Framework for Sustain Pedaling

Hanwen Zhang¹, Lele Liu², Ichiro Fujinaga¹
1: McGill University, Canada
2: University of Würzburg

Precise and Simple Audio-to-Score Alignment

Silvan Peter, Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer
Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Encoding Musical Space in Inviso

Anıl Çamcı, Zeynep Özcan
University of Michigan

A Flexible Encoding Model for Non-Unique Note Alignments

Suhit Chiruthapudi¹, Adam Štefunko², Silvan Peter¹, Patricia Hu¹, Jan Hajič jr.², Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón¹
1: Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
2: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics

Extending the Music Annotation Ontology: Representing Similarity and Contrast through Refinement of Classification and Targeting Procedures

Mark Saccomano
Paderborn University, Germany

Score-Agnostic Structure Analysis in Large-Scale Performance Datasets

Patricia Hu, Silvan Peter, Gerhard Widmer
Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, Austria
4:00pm - 4:30pm ☕ Coffee break
4:30pm - 6:00pm Closing Keynote: Christina Crowder
Location: First Forum (B1)

Start a Band to Build an Archive: The Power of Interdisciplinary Teams and Community Engagement

Christina Crowder, Clara Byom
Klezmer Institute, United States of America

Friday, 29 May 2026: Unconference & Community Meeting ↑

9:30am - 12:30pm Unconference/IG meetings
1:00pm - 2:30pm MEI Community Meeting

MEI Community Meeting

Annual meeting for the Music Encoding Initiative community.