OFAI Intelligent Music Processing Group - Project Computer-Based Music Research

The goal of this project is to use Artificial Intelligence methods to study the phenomenon of expressive music performance. The focus of the project is on developing and using machine learning and data mining methods for the analysis of expressive performance data. The goal is to gain a deeper understanding of this complex domain of human competence and to contribute new methods to the (relatively new) branch of musicology that tries to develop quantitative models and theories of musical expression. By musical expression, we mean the variations in tempo, timing, dynamics, articulation, etc. that performers apply when playing and interpreting'' a piece. Our goal is to study real expressive performances with machine learning methods, in order to discover some fundamental patterns or principles that characterize sensible'' musical performances, and to elucidate the relation between structural aspects of the music and typical or musically sensible'' performance patterns.