Subject: Re: About Silence From: "Lola L. Cuddy" <Lola.Cuddy@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:30:44 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--Boundary_(ID_gQ0nPstyRSi2FFHWo0em7Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 --Boundary_(ID_gQ0nPstyRSi2FFHWo0em7Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <html> <body> HI<br><br> You might have a look at Margulis, E. H. (2007). Silences in music are musical not silent. <i>Music Perception</i>, 24, 485-506, and some of the references therein. <br><br> Best wishes, <br><br> Lola L. Cuddy<br> Editor, Music Perception<br> Professor of Psychology<br> Queen's University<br> Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6<br> Canada<br><br> <br> At 11:11 AM 7/4/2009, Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hello everyone!<br><br> My name is Pablo. I apologize in advance of my english =D.<br><br> 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).<br><br> 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.<br><br> So here comes my question: Do you know anything I can read to help me out with this?<br><br> Thanks you all!<br><br> Pablo<br><br> <br> (1) If you are interested, you can hear an example here of what I've already done: <a href="http://lafhis.dc.uba.ar/~pzivic/E.nar.mid" eudora="autourl"> http://lafhis.dc.uba.ar/%7Epzivic/E.nar.mid</a><br><br> In that example, the piano is of Scott Joplin, and the solo is composed by mi program.<br> 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</blockquote></body> </html> --Boundary_(ID_gQ0nPstyRSi2FFHWo0em7Q)--