Towards Rhythmic Content Processing of Musical Signals: Fostering Complementary Approaches

Fabien Gouyon, Beno�t Meudic
2003 Journal of New Music Research  
This paper is concerned with the handling of rhythm in music content processing applications. Keeping this framework in mind, we briefly report on terminology issues and the interdisciplinary nature of rhythm investigations, we then review approaches to computational modeling of rhythm and rhythm representation schemes. We comment the bottomup and top-down oriented approaches to computational modeling and the parallel that some authors make with physiological and cognitive views on rhythm
more » ... tion. We argue that investigations should be listener-oriented, signal-oriented and application-oriented. Accepted for publication on May 9th 2002 − Retrieving any desired selection of items − Transforming items − Introducing new items Audio Event lists Symbols Abstract representations O p e r a te o n Processings: -Exploration -Understanding -Database browsing -Comparisons -Retrieval -Transformations -Populating the database Figure 1: Overview of music content processing. From musical data to meaningful representations. Further in the article, we will detail the issues of designing relevant representation schemes for musical data (in Section 3) and of identifying elements of these representations in musical data (in Section 2). Prior to these investigations, some additional terminology must be clarified.
doi:10.1076/jnmr.32.1.41.16804 fatcat:47tzjwgcbbcgrivbonlyyad6qa