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}
}