scenarios · raphael2010-music-plus-one

Musical accompaniment systems are computer programs that serve as musical partners for live musicians, usually playing a supporting role for music centering around the live player. The types of possible interaction between live player and computer are widely varied. Some approaches create sound by processing the musician's audio [...]. Other orientations are directed toward improvisatory music, such as jazz, in which the computer follows the outline of a score, perhaps even composing its own musical part "on the fly" [...], or evolving as a "call and response" in which the computer and human alternate the lead role [...]. Our focus here is on a third approach that models the traditional "classical" concerto-type setting in which the computer performs a precomposed musical part in a way that follows a live soloist