Title
Perceptual organization of affective and sensorial expressive intentions in music performance
Abstract
Expression communication is the added value of a musical performance. It is part of the reason why music is interesting to listen to and sounds alive. Previous work on the analysis of acoustical features yielded relevant features for the recognition of different expressive intentions, inspired both by emotional and sensorial adjectives. In this article, machine learning techniques are employed to understand how expressive performances represented by the selected features are clustered on a low-dimensional space, and to define a measure of acoustical similarity. Being that expressive intentions are similar according to the features used for the recognition, and since recognition implies subjective evaluation, we hypothesized that performances are similar also from a perceptual point of view. We then compared and integrated the clustering of acoustical features with the results of two listening experiments. A first experiment aims at verifying whether subjects can distinguish different categories of expressive intentions, and a second experiment aims at understanding which expressions are perceptually clustered together in order to derive common evaluation criteria adopted by listeners, and to obtain the perceptual organization of affective and sensorial expressive intentions. An interpretation of the resulting spatial representation based on action is proposed and discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1670671.1670678
TAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
expression,expressive intention,common evaluation criterion,different expressive intention,music performance,perceptual organization,listening experiment,sensorial expressive intention,acoustical feature,acoustical similarity,expressive performance,different category,machine learning
Communication,Expression (mathematics),Active listening,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Theoretical computer science,Spatial representation,Affect (psychology),Cluster analysis,Perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
1544-3558
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Mion1134.16
Giovanni De Poli218738.71
Ennio Rapanà340.86
PoliGiovanni De430.43