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A machine learning approach to expressive performance in jazz standards

Title A machine learning approach to expressive performance in jazz standards
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2004
Conference Name ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
Authors Ramirez, R. , Hazan A. , Gómez E. , & Maestre E.
Abstract We describe an approach to perform expressive transformation in monophonic Jazz melodies. The system consists of three components (a) a melodic transcription component which extracts a set of acoustic features from monophonic recordings, (b) a machine learning component which induce expressive transformation models from the set of extracted acoustic features, and (c) a melody synthesis component which generates expressive monophonic output (MIDI or audio) from inexpressive melody descriptions using the induced expressive transformation model. We describe and compare different machine learning methods for inducing the expressive transformation models.
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