Description
"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows" ~ Robert MoogPerformance is the primary medium through which music is communicated, whether through physical acoustic or electronic instruments. It is the conduit for the flow of artistic and intellectual ideas, and for the shaping of emotional experiences. But capturing the formidable creativity underlying compelling performances presents many challenges, not the least being the fleeting nature of performance and the lack of a written tradition allowing it to be represented and held still for close study. Over a series of vignettes, I shall present a biographical narrative of my search for ways to capture and represent the ineffable know-how of performance from the vantage point of a pianist. The journey spans a range of efforts to name and make models of the things performers do, such as the choreography of tension based on harmony and time, stretching the limits of notational technology to represent performed timings (also applied to arrhythmic sequences), and tapping into the volunteer thinking of citizen scientists to detect the structures performers create and to design or compose a performance. Most recently, the research turns to healthcare, where performed structures are a means to modulate cardiovascular autonomic response.
Period | 1 Sept 2023 |
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Held at | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Artificial Inteligence
- creativity
- music science
- music interaction
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Projects
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COSMOS: Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures
Project: Research
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Research output
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Annotation and Analysis of Recorded Piano Performances on the Web
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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ESP: A Driving Interface for Expression Synthesis
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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ESP: roadmaps as constructed interpretations and guides to expressive performance
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Putting (One's) Heart into Music
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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A Perceiver-Centered Approach for Representing and Annotating Prosodic Functions in Performed Music
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On Making Music with Heartbeats
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review