Sethares Rhythm and Transforms

2007
ISBN: 978-1-84628-640-7
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, eBook

Rhythm and Transforms is a book that explores rhythm in music, its structure and how we perceive it. The book will be bought by engineers interested in acoustic signal processing as well as musicians, composers and computer scientists. Anyone interested in the scientific basis of music from psychologists to the designers of electronic musical instruments will be interested in this book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sethares, William Arthur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What is Rhythm?
Visualizing and Conceptualizing Rhythm
Variety of Rhythmic Experience
Auditory Perception
Transforms
Adaptive Oscillators
Statistical Models
Automated Rhythm Analysis
Beat-based Signal Processing
Musical Composition and Recomposition
Musical Analysis via Feature Scores
Speculations, Interpretations, Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

William Sethares is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches about electro-acoustics and signal processing. A focus of his research is the relationship between the rhythmic qualities of music – how they are perceived biologically and the qualities of the instruments or machine making the sounds.