Time-series analysis of Music: Perceptual and Information Dynamics

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2011-04

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Empirical Musicology Review

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Dean and Bailes (2010) provide a tutorial on the use of time-series analysis in research on music perception and a study of the influence of acoustic factors on real-time perception of music. They illustrate their approach with a detailed case study of an electroacoustic composition by Trevor Wishart. In this commentary, I discuss four aspects of Dean and Bailes’ presentation: first, the importance of focusing on dynamic changes in musical structure; second, the benefits of computer-generated music for research on music perception; third, the need for caution in averaging responses from multiple listeners; and finally, the role of time-series analysis in understanding computational information-dynamic models of music cognition.

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perception, emotion, structure, modelling, information dynamics

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Empirical Musicology Review, v6 n2 (Apr 2011), 125-130

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https://doi.org/10.18061/1811/51214
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Empirical Musicology Review: Volume 6, Number 2 (2011)