What Really Moves Us in Music: Expressivity as a Challenge to Semantic Audio Research

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Abstract

Semantic Audio and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Research have led to some spectacular successes in recent years. In this presentation I will introduce performance expression as an important dimension of the 'semantics' of a piece of music; discuss and demonstrate what it means to extract, quantify, characterise, and model this via machine; review recent work on computational modelling of performance expression; sketch possible application scenarios; and identify pertinent research challenges for our field. Generally, my aim is to promote a field of research that not all attendees of this conference may be so familiar with and that, I believe, is of real importance when we speak of the 'semantics' of musical audio.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 53rd AES Conference on Semantic Audio, Audio Engineering Society, London, Jan. 2014.
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Fields of science

  • 202002 Audiovisual media
  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 102003 Image processing
  • 102015 Information systems

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
  • Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

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