I gave a talk titled "Decoding the Sensuality in Music" (abstract below). The audio from my computer did not work during the presentation, so I played many of the examples on the Yamaha keyboard.
Abstract: From uncontrollable guffaws to bittersweet heartache, music evokes sensations that result in pleasurable and memorable experiences. How do performers and composers manipulate musical parameters to pique the senses? What are the tricks of the trade, and can computers help us decode them? We will review a series of papers that take us from the computer visualizations of the humor devices of PDQ Bach through cathartic tipping points (musical thresholds) to modulating tension profiles that are used to constrain machines to generate music with narrative.
The following were the suggested papers:
• How maths helps us understand why music moves people by Elaine Chew
• Visible Humour − Seeing P.D.Q. Bach’s Musical Humour Devices in The Short-Tempered Clavier on the Spiral Array Space by Elaine Chew and Alexandre François
• Playing with the Edge: Tipping Points and the Role of Tonality by Elaine Chew
• Tension Ribbons: Quantifying and Visualising Tonal Tension by Dorien Herremans and Elaine Chew
• MorpheuS: generating structured music with constrained patterns and tension by Dorien Herremans and Elaine Chew
Below are selected tweets from #pwlconf, in reverse chronological order.
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