Analyzing musical expressivity with a soft computing approach
In this paper we present our research on the design of a tool to analyze musical expressivity. Musical expressivity is a human activity difficult to model computationally because of its nature: implicitly acquired by musicians through a long process of listening and imitation. We propose the use of soft computing techniques to deal with this problem. Specifically, from a collection of sound features obtained by using state of the art audio analysis algorithms, we apply a soft computing process to generate a compact and powerful representation. Moreover, we have designed a graphical user interface to provide a flexible analysis tool. We are using the analysis tool in the guitarLab project, focused on the study of musical expressivity of classical guitar. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
musical expressivity soft computing musical analysis