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Authors:

R. Michael Winters, Ian Hattwick, Marcelo M. Wanderley

Publication or Conference Title:

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion (ICME 2013)

Abstract:

Technologies capable of automatically sensing and recognizing emotion are becoming increasingly prevalent in performance and compositional practice. Though these technologies are complex and diverse, we present a typology that draws on similarities with computational systems for expressive music performance. This typology provides a framework to present results from the development of two audio environments for the Emotional Imaging Composer, a commercial product for realtime arousal/valence recognition that uses signals from the autonomic nervous system. In the first environment, a spectral delay processor for live vocal performance uses the performer’s emotional state to interpolate between subspaces of the arousal/valence plane. For the second, a sonification mapping communicates continuous arousal and valence measurements using tempo, loudness, decay, mode, and roughness. Both were informed by empirical research on musical emotion, though differences in desired output schemas manifested in different mapping strategies.

Publication Details:

Type:	Conference Paper
Date:	06/01/2013
Location:	Jyväskylä, Finland