Re: [microsound] AI & rhythm perception - 'groove' heuristics and dancing

[Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

this is exactly the kind of stuff i did @ york in ethnomusicology...  
see also: paul theberge's 'any sound you can imagine' (i always loved  
that title)

http://www.amazon.com/Any-Sound-You-Can-Imagine/dp/0819563099

it's pretty good, although it does not really address any real world  
examples of EDM.

the amazon website sums it up pretty well:

"Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a  
response to the needs of musicians, writes Paul Theberge; they also  
have become "a driving force with which musicians must contend." He  
argues that digital synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers in studio  
production and in the home have caused musicians to rely increasingly  
on manufacturers for both the instruments themselves as well as the  
very sounds and musical patterns that they use to make music.

Musical practices have thus become allied with a new type of consumer  
practice that is altogether different from earlier relationships  
between musicians and their instruments as a means of production.  
Theberge places these developments within a broad social and  
historical perspective that examines the development of the musical  
instrument industry, particularly the piano industry, the economic  
and cultural role of musicians' magazines and computer networks, and  
the fundamental relationships between musical concepts, styles, and  
technology."




On 21-Nov-06, at 7:57 PM, michael trommer wrote:

> You might find this interesting...a friend of mine is involved and  
> we argue
> about it all the time:
>
> http://www.wavedna.com/
>
> Sounds like the type of analysis you're interested in, only much more
> extreme.
>
> (I find it kind of evil/scary, personally)
>