While music transcends its time, it eagerly adopts the current technology. Musicians, like anyone else, use new instruments and procedures to reach their desired goals. In the age of computers, this is producing some fascinating results. C omputer music has existed as a formal application of computer science for at least 35 years. The idea has existed much longer. Ada Lovelace suggested the use...

Computer music analysis is investigated, with speciic reference to the current research elds of automatic music transcription, human music perception, pitch determination, note and stream segmentation, score generation, time-frequency analysis techniques, and musical grammars. Human music perception is investigated from two perspectives: the computational model perspective desires an algorithm ...

As early as the 1950s and early 1960s, pioneers such as Lejaren Hiller, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Iannis Xenakis, and Pietro Grossi, among a few others, started to gain access to computers to make music. It soon became clear that to render music with a socalled “human feel,” computers needed to process information about performance (e.g., deviations in tempo and loudness), in addition to the sy...

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 joinin...