This book discusses all aspects of computing for expressive performance, from the history of CSEMPs to the very latest research, in addition to discussing the fundamental ideas, and key issues and directions for future research. Topics and features: includes review questions at the end of each chapter; presents a survey of systems for real-time interactive control of automatic expressive music performance, including simulated conducting systems; examines two systems in detail, YQX and IMAP, each providing an example of a very different approach; introduces techniques for synthesizing expressive non-piano performances; addresses the challenges found in polyphonic music expression, from a statistical modelling point of view; discusses the automated analysis of musical structure, and the evaluation of CSEMPs; describes the emerging field of embodied expressive musical performance, devoted to building robots that can expressively perform music with traditional instruments.
Author(s): Alexis Kirke; Eduardo R. Miranda
Publisher: Springer London, London
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 271
Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
1: An Overview of Computer Systems for Expressive Music Performance
2: Systems for Interactive Control of Computer Generated Music Performance
3: Expressive Performance Rendering with Probabilistic Models
4: Artificial Evolution of Expressive Performance of Music: An Imitative Multi-Agent Systems Approach
5: Modeling, Analyzing, Identifying, and Synthesizing Expressive Popular Music Performances
6: Statistical Approach to Automatic Expressive Rendition of Polyphonic Piano Music
7: Evaluation of Computer Systems for Expressive Music Performance
8: Computational Music Theory and Its Applications to Expressive Performance and Composition
9: Anthropomorphic Musical Robots Designed to Produce Physically Embodied Expressive Performances of Music
Index
