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"Looking Beyond the Notes: An Engineering Approach to the Study of Musical Performance"
Elaine Chew (echew@usc.edu)

To be presented as part of a two-part tutorial on Music Background with Dalia Atlas.

6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Goldsmiths College, University of London
London, UK, September 11-15, 2005.

The tutorial takes place in the Ben Pimlott Building,
of Goldsmiths College, University of London
1:30PM-3:30PM, September 11, 2005.

The conference website is at 
http://ismir2005.ismir.net

The tutorial program site is at
http://ismir2005.ismir.net/tutorials.html

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Tutorial 1: Music Background

Part I: The combination of musicology, engineering, and interpretation
in Beethoven's 5th symphony Prof. 
Dalia Atlas, Guest conductor of 71 major orchestras in 30 countries,
Repertoire of over 750 scores.

Part II: Looking Beyond the Notes: An Engineering Approach to the
Study of Musical Performance 
Prof. Elaine Chew, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, University Southern California

Abstract: Designed for professionals and non-specialists, the first
part of this tutorial will present an analysis of the Fifth Symphony
by Beethoven, revealing as many aspects as possible, appropriate for
professional musicians and amateurs at the same time. The second part
will consist of a detailed look at work on measuring the performance
characteristics of musicians using new technologies.

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Part 2. Looking Beyond the Notes: An Engineering Approach to the Study
of Musical Performance

Elaine Chew (echew@usc.edu)

ABSTRACT: Human mediation in musical performance infuses a piece of
music with performer-specific expressive gestures that highlight and
link structures and ideas within the piece.  We explore some basic
differences between notated and performed music, and between one
performance and another of the same piece.  Concrete examples of these
concepts are realized through the design and demonstration of the
Expression Synthesis Project (ESP) interface, a driving interface that
exploits the similarities between driving and music performance to
make high-level expressive decisions accessible to non-experts.  ESP
is joint work with Alexandre Francois, Jie Liu and Aaron Yang.

Collaborative performance involves two or more musicians, and presents
unique challenges through its requirements of synchronization and
coordinated decision-making.  We discuss collaborative performance
under delayed sensory feedback, an inescapable reality of performance
over the Internet, and to a lesser extent, live performance in
general.  Studies of musical interaction under varying auditory delay
conditions reveal some natural and necessary conditions for ensemble
performance.  Quantitative analysis of performance decisions
corroborates these initial reports.  The Distributed Immersive
Performance (DIP) experiments were conducted in collaboration with
Alexander Sawchuk, Roger Zimmermann, Christos Papadopoulos, Christos
Kyriakakis, and the Tosheff Piano Duo.  Quantitative analysis is
performed with the assistance of Carley Tanoue.