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A Sequential Covering Evolutionary Algorithm for Expressive Music Performance

Title A Sequential Covering Evolutionary Algorithm for Expressive Music Performance
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2006
Conference Name Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Authors Ramirez, R. , Hazan A. , & Maestre E.
Publisher AAAI Press
Conference Location Boston, USA
Abstract In this paper, we describe an evolutionary approach to one of the problem of modeling the knowledge applied by a musician when performing a score of a piece in order to produce an expressive performance of the piece. We extract a set of acoustic features from Jazz recordings thereby providing a symbolic representation of the musician's expressive performance. By applying a sequential covering evolutionary algorithm to the symbolic representation, we obtain an expressive performance computational model capable of endowing a computer generated music performance with the timing and energy expressiveness that characterizes human generated music.