Using an Expressive Performance Template in a Music Conducting Interface

Haruhiro Katayose, and Keita Okudaira

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes an approach for playing expressivemusic, as it refers to a pianist's expressiveness, with atapping-style interface. MIDI-formatted expressiveperformances played by pianists were first analyzed andtransformed into performance templates, in which thedeviations from a canonical description was separatelydescribed for each event. Using one of the templates as askill complement, a player can play music expressivelyover and under the beat level. This paper presents ascheduler that allows a player to mix her/his own intensionand the expressiveness in the performance template. Theresults of a forty-subject user study suggest that using theexpression template contributes the subject's joy of playingmusic with the tapping-style performance interface. Thisresult is also supported by a brain activation study that wasdone using a near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).Categories and Subject DescriptorsH.5.5 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Sound andMusic Computing methodologies and techniques.

Citation

Haruhiro Katayose, and Keita Okudaira. 2004. Using an Expressive Performance Template in a Music Conducting Interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176625

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Katayose2004,
 abstract = {This paper describes an approach for playing expressivemusic, as it refers to a pianist's expressiveness, with atapping-style interface. MIDI-formatted expressiveperformances played by pianists were first analyzed andtransformed into performance templates, in which thedeviations from a canonical description was separatelydescribed for each event. Using one of the templates as askill complement, a player can play music expressivelyover and under the beat level. This paper presents ascheduler that allows a player to mix her/his own intensionand the expressiveness in the performance template. Theresults of a forty-subject user study suggest that using theexpression template contributes the subject's joy of playingmusic with the tapping-style performance interface. Thisresult is also supported by a brain activation study that wasdone using a near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).Categories and Subject DescriptorsH.5.5 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Sound andMusic Computing methodologies and techniques.},
 address = {Hamamatsu, Japan},
 author = {Katayose, Haruhiro and Okudaira, Keita},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176625},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Rencon, interfaces for musical expression, visualization},
 pages = {124--129},
 title = {Using an Expressive Performance Template in a Music Conducting Interface},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2004/nime2004_124.pdf},
 year = {2004}
}