TY - JOUR
T1 - Split levels
T2 - Symbolic to sub-symbolic interactive music systems
AU - Rowe, Robert
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The first wave of interactive music systems relied almost exclusively on the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard, a symbolic representation of music modeled closely on the behavior of a piano keyboard, as well as traditional concepts of music notation. The second wave takes as its input raw audio signals, a sub-symbolic data representation that is far more flexible while being far less structured. This article will consider the issues involved with building a pathway back up from sub-symbolic systems to the symbolic approaches of the first wave, and the relative advantages of the two.
AB - The first wave of interactive music systems relied almost exclusively on the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard, a symbolic representation of music modeled closely on the behavior of a piano keyboard, as well as traditional concepts of music notation. The second wave takes as its input raw audio signals, a sub-symbolic data representation that is far more flexible while being far less structured. This article will consider the issues involved with building a pathway back up from sub-symbolic systems to the symbolic approaches of the first wave, and the relative advantages of the two.
KW - Audio analysis
KW - Interactive music system
KW - Symbolic and sub-symbolic
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U2 - 10.1080/07494460802664015
DO - 10.1080/07494460802664015
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:70949094445
SN - 0749-4467
VL - 28
SP - 31
EP - 42
JO - Contemporary Music Review
JF - Contemporary Music Review
IS - 1
ER -