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- ÖFAI-TR-2004-06 (
539kB g-zipped PostScript file, 
1579kB PDF file)Exploring expressive performance strajectories: Six famous pianists play six Chopin pieces
- Werner Goebl, Elias Pampalk, Gerhard Widmer
- This paper presents an exploratory approach to analyzing large amounts of expressive performance data. Tempo and loudness information was derived semi-automatically from audio recordings of six famous pianists each playing six complete pieces by Chopin. The two-dimensional data was segmented into musically relevant phrases, normalized, and smoothed in various grades. The whole data set was clustered using a novel computational technique (i.e., aligned self-organizing maps) and visualized via an interactive user interface. Detailed cluster-wise statistics across pianists, pieces, and phrases gave insights into individual expressive strategies as well as common performance principles.
Keywords: Expressive Music Performance, Artificial Intelligence, Aligned Self-Organizing Maps, Visualization, Clustering
- This paper presents an exploratory approach to analyzing large amounts of expressive performance data. Tempo and loudness information was derived semi-automatically from audio recordings of six famous pianists each playing six complete pieces by Chopin. The two-dimensional data was segmented into musically relevant phrases, normalized, and smoothed in various grades. The whole data set was clustered using a novel computational technique (i.e., aligned self-organizing maps) and visualized via an interactive user interface. Detailed cluster-wise statistics across pianists, pieces, and phrases gave insights into individual expressive strategies as well as common performance principles.