Re: About Silence

["Lola L. Cuddy" <Lola.Cuddy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

HI

You might have a look at Margulis, E. H. (2007).  Silences in music
are musical not silent.  Music Perception, 24, 485-506, and
some of the references therein. 

Best wishes, 

Lola L. Cuddy
Editor, Music Perception
Professor of Psychology
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario  K7L 3N6
Canada


At 11:11 AM 7/4/2009, Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic wrote:
> 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