CaRo 2.0: An Interactive System for Expressive Music Rendering

Abstract EN

In several application contexts in multimedia field(educational, extreme gaming), the interaction with the user requeststhat system is able to render music in expressive way.

Theexpressiveness is the added value of a performance and is partof the reason that music is interesting to listen.

Understandingand modeling expressive content communication is important formany engineering applications in information technology (e.g.,Music Information Retrieval, as well as several applications in theaffective computing field).

In this paper, we present an originalapproach to modify the expressive content of a performance in agradual way, applying a smooth morphing among performanceswith different expressive content in order to adapt the audio expressivecharacter to the user’s desires.

The system won the finalstage of Rencon 2011.

This performance RENdering CONtest isa research project that organizes contests for computer systemsgenerating expressive musical performances.