TY - CHAP
T1 - New Interfaces for Classifying Performance Gestures in Music
AU - Rhodes, Christopher
AU - Allmendinger, Richard
AU - Climent, Ricardo
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Interactive machine learning (ML) allows a music performer to digitally represent musical actions (via gestural interfaces) and affect their musical output in real-time. Processing musical actions (termed performance gestures) with ML is useful because it predicts and maps often-complex biometric data. ML models can therefore be used to create novel interactions with musical systems, game-engines, and networked analogue devices. Wekinator is a free opensource software for ML (based on the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis – WEKA - framework) which has been widely used, since 2009, to build supervised predictive models when developing real-time interactive systems. This is because it is accessible in its format (i.e. a graphical user interface – GUI) and simplified approach to ML. Significantly, it allows model training via gestural interfaces through demonstration. However, Wekinator offers the user several models to build predictive systems with. This paper explores which ML models (in Wekinator) are the most useful for predicting an output in the context of interactive music composition. We use two performance gestures for piano, with opposing datasets, to train available ML models, investigate compositional outcomes and frame the investigation. Our results show ML model choice is important for mapping performance gestures because of disparate mapping accuracies and behaviours found between all Wekinator ML models.
AB - Interactive machine learning (ML) allows a music performer to digitally represent musical actions (via gestural interfaces) and affect their musical output in real-time. Processing musical actions (termed performance gestures) with ML is useful because it predicts and maps often-complex biometric data. ML models can therefore be used to create novel interactions with musical systems, game-engines, and networked analogue devices. Wekinator is a free opensource software for ML (based on the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis – WEKA - framework) which has been widely used, since 2009, to build supervised predictive models when developing real-time interactive systems. This is because it is accessible in its format (i.e. a graphical user interface – GUI) and simplified approach to ML. Significantly, it allows model training via gestural interfaces through demonstration. However, Wekinator offers the user several models to build predictive systems with. This paper explores which ML models (in Wekinator) are the most useful for predicting an output in the context of interactive music composition. We use two performance gestures for piano, with opposing datasets, to train available ML models, investigate compositional outcomes and frame the investigation. Our results show ML model choice is important for mapping performance gestures because of disparate mapping accuracies and behaviours found between all Wekinator ML models.
KW - Gestural interfaces
KW - HCI
KW - Interactive machine learning
KW - Interactive music
KW - Myo
KW - Performance gestures
KW - Wekinator
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-33617-2_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-33617-2_4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030336165
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 31
EP - 42
BT - Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2019 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Yin, Hujun
A2 - Allmendinger, Richard
A2 - Camacho, David
A2 - Tino, Peter
A2 - Tallón-Ballesteros, Antonio J.
A2 - Menezes, Ronaldo
T2 - Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
Y2 - 14 November 2019 through 16 November 2019
ER -