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<project> 
<student>Roberto Carli</student> 
<title>Remembering music using k-lines</title> 
<vision> 
Humans cannot remember a 30-digit number very easily, but can memorize and, in some cases, 
reproduce very complex pieces of music. How is that possible? I believe it can be 
explained using model based on Minksy's theory of k-lines. 
iteration. 
</vision> 
<type> 
Research project with implementation. 
</type> 
<steps> 
<br/> Define a notion of "state" in music memorization, based on the concept of harmony, and use it as an perceptive argument that can be addressed by a k-line. 
<br/> Show how it is possible for a given state to hallucinate the next state, in an iteration of memory accesses. Develop a notion of transition. 
</steps> 
<contributions> 
<br/> Will propose a model, based on the k-lines memory theory, for representing the memorization of music. 
<br/> Will explain characteristics of music memorization through the mechanisms of the memory model. 
<br/> Will develop a proof-of-concept program that memorizes a fragment of music 
</contributions> 
</project>