New interfaces for popular music performance

  • Authors:
  • Roger B. Dannenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Augmenting performances of live popular music with computer systems poses many new challenges. Here, "popular music" is taken to mean music with a mostly steady tempo, some improvisational elements, and largely predetermined melodies, harmonies, and other parts. The overall problem is studied by developing a framework consisting of constraints and subproblems that any solution should address. These problems include beat acquisition, beat phase, score location, sound synthesis, data preparation, and adaptation. A prototype system is described that offers a set of solutions to the problems posed by the framework, and future work is suggested.