Improvasher: A Real-Time Mashup System for Live Musical Input

Matthew Davies, Adam Stark, Fabien Gouyon, and Masataka Goto

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

In this paper we present Improvasher a real-time musical accompaniment system which creates an automatic mashup to accompany live musical input. Improvasher is built around two music processing modules, the first, a performance following technique, makes beat-synchronous predictions of chroma features from a live musical input. The second, a music mashup system, determines the compatibility between beat-synchronous chromagrams from different pieces of music. Through the combination of these two techniques, a real-time time predict mashup can be generated towards a new form of automatic accompaniment for interactive musical performance.

Citation

Matthew Davies, Adam Stark, Fabien Gouyon, and Masataka Goto. 2014. Improvasher: A Real-Time Mashup System for Live Musical Input. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178744

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{mdavies2014,
 abstract = {In this paper we present Improvasher a real-time musical accompaniment system which creates an automatic mashup to accompany live musical input. Improvasher is built around two music processing modules, the first, a performance following technique, makes beat-synchronous predictions of chroma features from a live musical input. The second, a music mashup system, determines the compatibility between beat-synchronous chromagrams from different pieces of music. Through the combination of these two techniques, a real-time time predict mashup can be generated towards a new form of automatic accompaniment for interactive musical performance.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Matthew Davies and Adam Stark and Fabien Gouyon and Masataka Goto},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178744},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {541--544},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Improvasher: A Real-Time Mashup System for Live Musical Input},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_405.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}