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motivation-and-new-music · raphael2010-music-plus-one
- Citation
- raphael2010-music-plus-one
- Claim ID
- motivation-and-new-music
- Assertion
- At Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, about 200 student pianists study concertos but the orchestras perform only two piano concertos a year with student soloists, motivating an accompaniment system. Raphael also sees new music composed for human–computer partnerships as a major opportunity, since the computer has nearly unlimited virtuosity but is weak at aesthetically satisfying interpretation; the Swiss composer Jan Beran wrote pieces for the system. For music without a regular pulse, a natural strategy is to wait for solo events and respond, as the IRCAM score follower does.
- Quote
the JSoM contains about 200 student pianists, for whom the concerto literature is central to their daily practice and aspirations. However, in the JSoM the regular orchestras perform only two piano concerti each year using student soloists [...]. If the approach is based solely on audio, a natural strategy is simply to wait until various solo events are detected, and then to respond to these events. This is the approach taken by the IRCAM score follower [...]. The computer offers essentially unlimited virtuosity in terms of playing fast notes and coordinating complicated rhythms. On the other hand, at present, the computer is comparatively weak at providing aesthetically satisfying musical interpretations. [...] Several compositions of this variety, written specifically for our accompaniment system by Swiss composer and statistician Jan Beran
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- section: 1
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