TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring meaning and intention in music conducting
AU - Dannenberg, Roger B.
AU - Siewiorek, Daniel P.
AU - Zahler, Noel
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Conducting is a high-level form of expressive musical communication. The possibility of human-computer interaction through a conducting-based interface to a computer performance system has attracted many computer music researchers. This study explores conducting through interviews with conductors and musicians and also through accelerometers attached to conductors during rehearsals with a (human) orchestra and chamber music group. We found that "real" conducting gestures are much more subtle than "textbook" conducting gestures made in the lab, but we observed a very high correlation between the smoothed RMS amplitudes of conductors' wrist acceleration and the ensembles' audio.
AB - Conducting is a high-level form of expressive musical communication. The possibility of human-computer interaction through a conducting-based interface to a computer performance system has attracted many computer music researchers. This study explores conducting through interviews with conductors and musicians and also through accelerometers attached to conductors during rehearsals with a (human) orchestra and chamber music group. We found that "real" conducting gestures are much more subtle than "textbook" conducting gestures made in the lab, but we observed a very high correlation between the smoothed RMS amplitudes of conductors' wrist acceleration and the ensembles' audio.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84924965930
T3 - International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2010
SP - 327
EP - 330
BT - International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2010
PB - International Computer Music Association
T2 - International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2010
Y2 - 1 June 2010 through 5 June 2010
ER -