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Studying Interdependencies in Music Performance : An Interactive Tool

Tilo Hähnel, and Axel Berndt

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Musicians tend to model different performance parameters intuitively and listeners seem to perceive them, to a certain degree, unconsciously. This is a problem for the development of synthetic performance models, for they are built upon detailed assumptions of several parameters like timing, loudness, and duration—and of interdependencies as well. This paper describes an interactive performance synthesis tool, which allows to analyse listener’s preferences of multiple performance features. Using the tool in a study of eighth notes inégalité, a relationship between timing and loudness was found.

Citation

Tilo Hähnel, and Axel Berndt. 2011. Studying Interdependencies in Music Performance : An Interactive Tool. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178037 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2011_Hahnel,
author = {Hähnel, Tilo and Berndt, Axel},
title = {Studying Interdependencies in Music Performance : An Interactive Tool},
pages = {48--51},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2011},
address = {Oslo, Norway},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178037},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_048.pdf},
keywords = {articula-,duration,dynamics,egales,loudness,notes in,synthetic performance,timing,tion},
abstract = {Musicians tend to model different performance parameters intuitively and listeners seem to perceive them, to a certain degree, unconsciously. This is a problem for the development of synthetic performance models, for they are built upon detailed assumptions of several parameters like timing, loudness, and duration—and of interdependencies as well. This paper describes an interactive performance synthesis tool, which allows to analyse listener’s preferences of multiple performance features. Using the tool in a study of eighth notes inégalité, a relationship between timing and loudness was found.}
}