Leçons : an Approach to a System for Machine Learning, Improvisation and Music Performance

• This paper aims at describing an approach to the music performancesituation as a laboratory for investigating interactivity. I would like to present“Leçons pour un apprenti sourd-muet” 1, where the basic idea isthat of two improvisers, a saxophonist and a computer, engaged in a seriesof musical questions and responses. The situation is inspired fromthe Japanese shakuhachi tradition, where imitating the master performeris a prime element in the apprentice’s learning process. Through listeningand imitation, the computer’s responses get closer to that of its master foreach turn. In this sense, the computer’s playing emanates from the saxophonist’sphrases and the interactivity in “Leçons” takes place on thelevel of the composition.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Annan teknik -- Mediateknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Other Engineering and Technologies -- Media Engineering (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Annan teknik -- Interaktionsteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Other Engineering and Technologies -- Interaction Technologies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Musik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Music (hsv//eng)

Keyword

interactive

music

Markov chain

invention

artificial creativity

saxophone

computer music

Art, Technology and Design

Konst, teknik och design

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