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

[David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/06, Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think we're kind of saying the same thing, which I've suspected for a
> while ;-) we just have different ideas about the repercussions, or perhaps
> the underlying truth, or something.
>
> What you're talking about is part of my idea though - what happens when you
> take away the need for a compressor and just programme in the same sorts of
> velocities directly?

Well, that would require some program that hasn't yet been invented!
Feel free to try though...

However, my other point is that, while I'm sure you could analyze a
set of examples from a given genre and find mathematical patterns, I
highly doubt you could correlate the patterns with the perception of
an afficienado in that genre, about whether a particular beat was good
or bad.

You don't even know, to what extent people agree on good or bad! You
can't advance your hypothesis, until you test how much subjective
variation there is in people's perceptions of grooves, and especially
things like cross-cultural variation.

All this sounds like a research career for a cognitive scientist, not
a musician, as far as I'm concerned. I already KNOW how to make a
groove that gets peoople jacking, I'll let other people sit around
testing and researching ... ;)

~David

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