TY - GEN
T1 - On measuring syncopation to drive an interactive music system
AU - Sioros, George
AU - Holzapfel, André
AU - Guedes, Carlos
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper we address the problem of measuring syncopation in order to mediate a musically meaningful interaction between a live music performance and an automatically generated rhythm. To this end we present a simple, yet effective interactive music system we developed. We shed some light on the complex nature of syncopation by looking into MIDI data from drum loops and whole songs. We conclude that segregation into individual rhythmic layers is necessary in order to measure the syncopation of a music ensemble. This implies that measuring syncopation on polyphonic audio signals is not yet tractable using the current state-of-the-art in audio analysis.
AB - In this paper we address the problem of measuring syncopation in order to mediate a musically meaningful interaction between a live music performance and an automatically generated rhythm. To this end we present a simple, yet effective interactive music system we developed. We shed some light on the complex nature of syncopation by looking into MIDI data from drum loops and whole songs. We conclude that segregation into individual rhythmic layers is necessary in order to measure the syncopation of a music ensemble. This implies that measuring syncopation on polyphonic audio signals is not yet tractable using the current state-of-the-art in audio analysis.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873426250
SN - 9789727521449
T3 - Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012
SP - 283
EP - 288
BT - Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012
T2 - 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012
Y2 - 8 October 2012 through 12 October 2012
ER -