About Silence

[Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic <elsonidoq@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone!

My name is Pablo. I apologize in advance of my english =D.

I recently joined this mailing list because I'm doing some research 
about music. My intention is to use computational/statistical models to 
create music, and that models be driven by cognitive/musical claims (1).

Since the very beginning of my research I had trouble modeling silence. 
The silence is not just another pitch which has the ability of not to 
sound. I think that silence has to be treated apart from pitches, but I 
don't know how.

So here comes my question: Do you know anything I can read to help me 
out with this?

Thanks you all!

Pablo


(1) If you are interested, you can hear an example here of what I've 
already done: http://lafhis.dc.uba.ar/%7Epzivic/E.nar.mid

In that example, the piano is of Scott Joplin, and the solo is composed 
by mi program.
The silences that you hear, are artificial, is just a simple rule that I 
introduced, if the solo plays all the time it gets annoying