Capturing and Manipulating Representations of Gesture and Expression in Live Music Performance

研究领域是音乐互动的“现场表演”领域。这个主题有一个最近但丰富的研究历史，其中大部分已经在诸如NIME会议（自2001年以来），国际计算机音乐会议和计算机音乐期刊等渠道提出。研究的问题是：符号语言能否抽象出“我们所做的事情”作为这些系统的执行者，并且拥有一种语言是否允许一些复杂的（可能是创新的或令人惊讶的）结果？该研究项目将侧重于开发解释已整理的输入数据流（例如音频、加速度计、执行器）的方法，并将其意义抽象为一种允许分析和转换的表示形式。虽然音乐动作在系统中被抽象为音乐符号和MIDI，但表演手势却没有这样的等价物。可以认为MPE MIDI复调表达是一种编码表演手势的方法，但它是以乐器为中心而不是以表演者为中心。

The area of research is the "live performance" area of music interaction. The subject has a recent but rich history of research, much of which having been presented in such outlets as the NIME Conference (since 2001), the international Computer Music Conference, and the Computer Music Journal.The research question is: can a symbolic language abstract the " things we do" as performers of such systems, and does having a language allow some sophisticated (and possibly innovative or surprising) results?The research project would focus on developing means to interpret collated streams of input data (e.g. audio, accelerometers, actuators), and abstract their meaning in a form of representation that allows analysis and transformation. Whereas musical actions have been abstracted in systems which as musical notation and MIDI, performance gestures effectively have no such equivalent. It could be argued that MPE MIDI Polyphonic Expression is an approach to encode performance gestures but it is instrument-centric rather than performer centric.