New Interfaces for Popular Music Performance

Roger B. Dannenberg

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2007
• Location: New York City, NY, United States
• Pages: 130–135
• Keywords: accompaniment,beat,conducting,intelligent,music synchronization,nime07,synthetic performer,tracking,virtual orchestra
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177081 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Augmenting performances of live popular music with computer systems poses many new challenges. Here, "popular music" is taken to mean music with a mostly steady tempo, some improvisational elements, and largely predetermined melodies, harmonies, and other parts. The overall problem is studied by developing a framework consisting of constraints and subproblems that any solution should address. These problems include beat acquisition, beat phase, score location, sound synthesis, data preparation, and adaptation. A prototype system is described that offers a set of solutions to the problems posed by the framework, and future work is suggested.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Dannenberg2007,
 abstract = {Augmenting performances of live popular music with computer systems poses many new challenges. Here, "popular music" is taken to mean music with a mostly steady tempo, some improvisational elements, and largely predetermined melodies, harmonies, and other parts. The overall problem is studied by developing a framework consisting of constraints and subproblems that any solution should address. These problems include beat acquisition, beat phase, score location, sound synthesis, data preparation, and adaptation. A prototype system is described that offers a set of solutions to the problems posed by the framework, and future work is suggested. },
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Dannenberg, Roger B.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177081},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {accompaniment,beat,conducting,intelligent,music synchronization,nime07,synthetic performer,tracking,virtual orchestra},
 pages = {130--135},
 title = {New Interfaces for Popular Music Performance},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_130.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}