[PURDUE MLSS] Learning Rhythm from Live Music by Learning Rhythm

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Channel: Purdue University · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Lecture notes:  http://learning.stat.purdue.edu/mlss/_media/mlss/raphael.pdf

Learning Rhythm from Live Music

I will give a brief overview of my musical accompaniment system, known interchangeably as "Music Plus One" and the "Informatics Philharmonic," which plays a flexible accompaniment that follows a live soloist in a concerto setting. The program "listens" to the live player using an HMM, making decisions based on the filtered distribution of the player's score position. A separate "thread" of the program predicts the times of future musical events using a Kalman-Filter-like model that both incorporates basic musical notions of timing and can adapt in a manner analogous to "rehearsing." In the actual performance a prerecorded orchestra-only recording is resynthesized using phase-vocoding to accommodate the predictions of the timing model. The talk will contain a number of illuminating demonstrations of these components, as well as the complete goal.

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