Improvasher: A Real-Time Mashup System for Live Musical Input

Matthew Davies, Adam Stark, Fabien Gouyon, and Masataka Goto

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2014
• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Pages: 541–544
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178744 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

In this paper we present Improvasher a real-time musical accompaniment system which creates an automatic mashup to accompany live musical input. Improvasher is built around two music processing modules, the first, a performance following technique, makes beat-synchronous predictions of chroma features from a live musical input. The second, a music mashup system, determines the compatibility between beat-synchronous chromagrams from different pieces of music. Through the combination of these two techniques, a real-time time predict mashup can be generated towards a new form of automatic accompaniment for interactive musical performance.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{mdavies2014,
 abstract = {In this paper we present Improvasher a real-time musical accompaniment system which creates an automatic mashup to accompany live musical input. Improvasher is built around two music processing modules, the first, a performance following technique, makes beat-synchronous predictions of chroma features from a live musical input. The second, a music mashup system, determines the compatibility between beat-synchronous chromagrams from different pieces of music. Through the combination of these two techniques, a real-time time predict mashup can be generated towards a new form of automatic accompaniment for interactive musical performance.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Matthew Davies and Adam Stark and Fabien Gouyon and Masataka Goto},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178744},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {541--544},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Improvasher: A Real-Time Mashup System for Live Musical Input},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_405.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}