Methods and Prospects for Human–Computer Performance of Popular Music

Roger B. Dannenberg, Nicolas E. Gold, Dawen Liang, Guangyu Xia
2014 Computer Music Journal  
Computers are often used in performance of popular music, but most often in very restricted ways, such as keyboard synthesizers where musicians are in complete control, or pre-recorded or sequenced music where musicians follow the computer's drums or click track. An interesting and yet little-explored possibility is the computer as highly autonomous performer of popular music, capable of joining a mixed ensemble of computers and humans. Considering the skills and functional requirements of
more » ... ians leads to a number of predictions about future human-computer music performance (HCMP) systems for popular music. We describe a general architecture for such systems and describe some early implementations and our experience with them.
doi:10.1162/comj_a_00238 fatcat:25fdpnph4fdl3b452syg4afqcu