ISE575b
CSCI575b
EE675b
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Topics in Engineering Approaches to Music Cognition
Computational Modeling of Expressive Performance
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Spring 2006
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
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Introduction
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Week 1
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Course syllabus [ PDF ]
Class list [ HTML | PDF ]
Signup information sheet [ HTML ]
Reading plan [ PDF ]
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(Jan 11)
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Overview
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Palmer, C. (1997). Music Performance. Annual Review of Psychology. 48:115-38. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chew ]
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Week 2
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Gabrielsson, A. (1999). Music Performance. In D. Deutsch (Ed.): The Psychology of Music, Vol.2, pp.501-602. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
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(Jan 18)
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Read and write a report on one of the following: set A (= pp.501-523) OR set B (= pp.523-557, 577-579).
presentation (A): [ unal ]
reports (A): [ jer, lin, wang, vaziri ]
report (AB): [ liu ]
presentation (B): [ miles ]
reports (B): [ cheng, miles ]
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Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation
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Week 3
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Todd, N. P. M. (1992). The dynamics of dynamics: A model of musical expression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 1992, Vol. 91, Issue 6, pp.3540-3550. [ PDF ] presentation: [ liu ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu ]
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(Jan 25)
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Repp, B. H. (1998). A microcosm of musical expression. I. Quantitative analysis of pianists' timing in the initial measures of Chopin's Etude in E major. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Aug 1998, Vol.104, Issue 2, pp.1085-1100. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mosst ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, lin ]
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Repp, B. H. (1999). A microcosm of musical expression: II. Quantitative analysis of pianists' dynamics in the initial measures of Chopin's Etude in E major. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Mar 1999, Vol. 105, Issue 3, pp.1972-1988. [ PDF ] presentation: [ vaziri ] report: [ wang ]
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Playing Vivaldi's Sonata No. 4 by Eric Cheng. presentation: [ cheng ]
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Week 4
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Music and Motion
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(Feb 1)
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Todd, N. P. M. (1998). The kinematics of musical expression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 1995, Vol.97, Issue 3, pp.1940-1949. [ PDF ] presentation: [ cheng ] reports: [ cheng, liu, mardirossian ]
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Friberg, A., Sundberg, J., and Fryden, L. (2000). Music from motion: Sound level envelopes of tones expressing human locomotion. Journal of New Music Research , 29 (2000), No. 3, pp. 199-210 [ PDF ] presentation: [ chuan, audio ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, miles ]
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Week 5
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Articulation and Prosody
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(Feb 8)
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Bresin, R. & Battel, G. U. (2000). Articulation strategies in expressive piano performance. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.29, No.3, Sep 2000, pp.211-224. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lin ] reports: [ chuan, mosst, vaziri ]
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Lindstrom, E. (2003). The Contribution of Immanent and Performed Accents to Emotional Expression in Short Tone Sequences. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.32, No.3, Sep 2003, p.269-280. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ chuan, miles, wang ]
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Palmer, C., & Hutchins, S. (2005). What is musical prosody? In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation 46, Elsevier Press. presentation: [ jer ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, vaziri ]
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Week 6
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Interpretation
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(Feb 15)
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Palmer, C. (1996). On the assignment of structure in music performance. Music Perception, 14: 23-56. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mardirossian ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian ]
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Mazzola, G., & Goller, S. (2002). Performance and Interpretation. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.31, No.3 (September 2002) pp.221-232. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chung ] reports: [ chuan, lin, liu, vaziri, wang ]
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De Poli, G. (2004). Methodologies for Expressiveness Modelling of and for Music Performance. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.33 No.3, Sep 2004, pp.189-202. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chiang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mardirossian, unal, vaziri ]
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Analytical and Generative Tools
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Week 7
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Visualization
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(Feb 22)
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Langner J. & Goebl W. (2002). Visualizing Expressive Performance in Tempo-Loudness Space. Computer Music Journal, Vol.27 No.4, Winter 2003, pp.69-83. [ PDF ] presentation: [ cheng ] report: [ cheng, chuan, liu, unal, vaziri ]
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Goebl, W., Pampalk, E. & Widmer, G. (2004). "Exploring Expressive Performance Trajectories: Six Famous Pianists Play Chopin Pieces." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mardirossian ] report: [ cheng, chuan, lin, mosst, vaziri ]
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Week 8
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Analysis
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(Mar 1)
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Widmer, G. & Goebl, W. (2004). Computational Models of Expressive Music Performance: The State of the Art. Journal of New Music Research. Vol.33, No.3, Sep 2004. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chiang ] reports: [ chuan, lin, mardirossian, mosst, vaziri ]
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Kopiez, R., Bangert, M., Goebl, W. & Altenmuller (2003). Tempo and Loudness Analysis of a Continuous 28-Hour Performance of Erik Satie's Composition "Vexations". Journal of New Music Research, Vol.32, No.3, Sep 2003, pp.243-258. [ PDF, rec ] presentation: [ liu ] reports: [ cheng, liu, miles, mosst ]
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Langner, J., Kopiez, R., Stoffel, C., Wilz, M. (2000). Real-time Analysis of Dynamic Shaping. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 5-10 Aug 2000, Keele, England. [ PDF ] presentation: [ jer ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, lin ]
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Week 9
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Rule-Based Models
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(Mar 8)
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Friberg, A. (1991). Generative Rules for Music Performance: A Formal Description of a Rule System. Computer Music Journal, Vol.15 No.2, pp.56-71. presentation: [ vaziri ] reports: [ chuan, unal, vaziri ]
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Friberg, A., Colombo, V., Fryden, L., Sundberg, J. (2000). Generating Musical Performances with Director Musices. Computer Music Journal, 2000. presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mosst, wang ]
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Sundberg, J., Friberg, A., & Bresin, R. (2003). Attempts to Reproduce a Pianist's Expressive Timing with Director Musices Performance Rules. Journal of New Music Research, 2003. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lin ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, mosst, unal, vaziri ]
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Week 10
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Case-Based Reasoning
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(Mar 22)
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Arcos, J. L., de Mantaras, R. L., & Serra, X. (1998). SaxEx: A Case-Based Reasoning System for Generating Expressive Musical Performances. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.27 No.3 [ PS/eg ] presenter: [ miles ] reports: [ chuan, liu, mardirossian, vaziri ]
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Arcos, J. L., de Mantaras, R. L. (2001). An Interactive Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Generating Expressive Music. Applied Intelligence, Vol.14 No.1, Jan 2001, pp.115-129. [ PDF ] presenter: [ chuan ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mardirossian, mosst, vaziri ]
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TOOLS for alignment collected by Miles, Cheng, and Unal.
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TOOLS for loudness measurement collected by Liu, Wang, and Jer.
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TOOLS for tempo tracking collected by Lin, Chiang, and Chung.
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TOOLS for visualization collected by Chuan, Mardirossian, Mosst, and Vaziri.
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Week 11
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Machine-Learning
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(Mar 29)
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Bresin, R. (1998). Artificial neural networks based models for automatic performance of musical scores. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.27 No.3, pp.239-270. presentation: [ mosst ] reports: [ chuan, jer, lin, miles, mosst, vaziri ]
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Ilmonen, T. & Takala, T. (1999). Conductor following with artificial neural networks. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 1999. [ PS ] presentation: [ miles ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, mardirossian, mosst, wang ]
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Raphael, C. (2001). Can the Computer Learn to Play Music Expressively? Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2001. [ PDF ] presentation: [ vaziri ] reports: [ cheng, liu, vaziri ]
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Week 12
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Widmer, G. (2002). Machine Discoveries: A Few Simple, Robust Local Expression Principles. Journal of New Music research, Vol.31, No.1, Mar 2002, pp.37-50. [ PDF ] presenter: [ jer ] reports: [ chuan, jer, lin, liu, mosst, vaziri ]
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(Apr 5)
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Widmer, G. & Tobudic, A. (2003). Playing Mozart by Analogy: Learning Multi-level Timing and Dynamics Strategies. Journal of New Music Research. Gol.32 No.3, Sep 2003, pp.259-268. [ PDF ] presenter: [ chiang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mardirossian, mosst ]
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Interactive Systems
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Week 13
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The Radio Baton
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(Apr 12)
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Mathews, M. V. (1991a). The Conductor Program and Mechanical Baton. In M. V. Mathews and J. R. Pierce, eds. Current Directions in Computer Music Research. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 263-281. presentation: [ lin ] reports: [ cheng, miles, mosst, wang ]
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Matthews, M. V. (1991b). The Radio-Baton and Conductor Program, or: Pitch, the Most Important and Least Expressive Part of Music. Computer Music Journal, Vol.15 No.4, pp.37-46. presentation: [ unal ] reports: [ liu, mardirossian ]
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Sundberg, J., Friberg, A., Mathews, M., Bennett, G. (2003). Experiences in Combining the Radio Baton and the Director Musices Performance Grammar. Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer (MOSART) Barcelona, Spain, Nov 15-17, 2001. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, jer, wang ]
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Mathews, M., Friberg, A., Bennett, G., Sapp, C., Sundberg, J. (2003). A marriage of the Director Musices program and the conductor program. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, August 6-9, 2003 (SMAC 03), Stockholm, Sweden. reports: [ liu, mosst, vaziri ]
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Week 14
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Other Interfaces
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(Apr 19)
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Dixon, S., Goebl, W., Widmer, G. (2005). The "Air Worm": an Interface for Real-Time Manipulation of Expressive Music Performance. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2005. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chuan ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, mardirossian, mosst, vaziri ]
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Chew, E., François, A. R. J., Liu, J. & Yang, A. (2005). ESP: A Driving Interface for Musical Expression Synthesis. Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 26-28, 2005. [ PDF ] presentation: [ liu ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, miles, mosst ]
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Wanderley M.M. & Orio N. (2002). Evaluation of Input Devices for Musical Expression: Borrowing Tools from HCI. Computer Music Journal, Vol.26, No.3, Sep 2002, pp.62-76(15). [ PDF ] presenter: [ unal ] reports: [ liu, unal, vaziri ]
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Performers' Perspectives
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Week 15
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Three Pianists' Opinions
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(Apr 26)
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Brendel, A. (1976). Musical Thoughts and After-Thoughts. London: Robson Books. Selected essays. presenter: [ cheng ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, miles, wang ] (read at week 12)
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Wolff, K. (1979). Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music. London: Faber Music in association with Faber and Faber. Chapter 10: Interpretation of Character and Structure, p.120-153. presenter: [ mardirossian ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, vaziri ]
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Wolff, K. (1979). Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music. London: Faber Music in association with Faber and Faber. Chapter 11: The Means of Regulating Sound, Chapter 12: Technique, and Appendix, p.154-182. presenter: [ mosst ] reports: [ lin, mosst ]
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Chaffin, R., G. Imreh, A. F. Lemieux, and C. Chen (2003). "Seeing the Big Picture": Piano Practice as Expert Problem Solving. Music Perception, Vol.20, No.4 (Summer 2003), p. 465-490. reports: [ liu, wang ]
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Week 16
(May 3)
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PROJECTS: [
Final Projects |
Pictures |
Students ]
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Updated 10 May 2006. Note that anything that has not yet happened is subject to change.
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