Identifying violin performers by their expressive trends

  • Authors:
  • Miguel Molina-Solana;Josep Lluí/s Arcos;Emilia Gomez

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. Tel.: +34 958 240806/ Fax: +34 958 243317/ E-mail: miguelmolina@ugr.es) Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain;Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Intelligent Data Analysis - Machine Learning and Music
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Understanding the way performers use expressive resources of a given instrument to communicate with the audience is a challenging problem in the sound and music computing field. Working directly with commercial recordings is a good opportunity for tackling this implicit knowledge and studying well-known performers. The huge amount of information to be analyzed suggests the use of automatic techniques, which have to deal with imprecise analysis and manage the information in a broader perspective. This work presents a new approach, Trend-based modeling, for identifying professional performers in commercial recordings. Concretely, starting from automatically extracted descriptors provided by state-of-the-art tools, our approach performs a qualitative analysis of the detected trends for a given set of melodic patterns. The feasibility of our approach is shown for a dataset of monophonic violin recordings from 23 well-known performers.