Re: [LAU] Quantum physics offers insight into music expressivity

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 15:23:18 EET

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:21:00 +0100, Alessio Degani wrote:
>On 16/03/2017 03:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:19:03 -1000, David Jones wrote:
>>> In particular: vibrato
>>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170315140701.htm
>> IMO "Quantum physics offers insight into music expressivity" belogs
>> to the same category as "Could fast radio bursts be powering alien
>> probes?"
>>
>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170309120419.htm
>
>"Quantum physics offers insight into music expressivity" surely is not
>an appropriate title :) On the oder hand, Music Information Retrieval
>frequently uses techniques "borrowed" from other research fields (the
>point of the article). For example, in cover song identification you
>can use dynamic time warping + qMAX measure in order to asses the
>music similarity between two songs. This technique was originally
>developed for measurng the matching of DNA sequences.

Some research institutes have strict guidelines, at what time, what
research results, in what way should or shouldn't be published, others
have less strict guidelines and apart from the different research
institute guidelines, some magazines (print media, TV etc.) seemingly
follow no guideline at all. The most interesting insights usually have
less sensational headlines and are more reserved with speculations.

"The researchers hope the new technique will help musicians and music
teachers in their quest to achieve the perfect vibrato"

C'mon! That's ridiculous.

It might or might not be interesting for musicology and/or for people
who program virtual instruments and something similar, but musicians as
well as music teachers follow another approach to play their
instruments, to use their vocals, an approach that requires another kind
of insight.
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