[Research Paper]

Prediction of Piano Performance

See:

• Statistical Pattern Recognition for Prediction of Solo Piano Performance [pdf]

(C.Chafe, "Statistical Pattern Recognition for Prediction of Solo Piano Performance," Proc. Intl. Computer Music Conf. Thessaloniki, Sept. 1997)

The hope is to someday run a predictor slightly ahead of real time and beat network delay. A `pretention' algorithm would allow synchronous, global performance. The paper describes recent work in modeling human aspects of musical performance. Like speech, the exquisite precision of trained performance and mastery of an instrument does not lead to an exactly repeatable performed musical surface with respect to note timings and other parameters. The goal is to achieve sufficient modeling capabilities to predict some aspects of expressive performance of a score.