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Emotion control system for MIDI excerpts: MOR2ART

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Emotion control system for MIDI excerpts: MOR2ART
Emotional expression when performing music (singing or playing musical instruments) requires skill, but such a skill is generally difficult to learn. Computer systems that can make it easy for non-musicians to express any emotion have been proposed[1]. These systems can be used to express five or six emotions during a musical performance, but cannot be used to control the degree of an emotion such as savage or calm anger. It is necessary for the user, not only musicians but also nonmusicians, to continuously manipulate emotions with immediate results for the audience. Therefore, we propose a system for controlling degrees of emotions in MIDI files. We call our proposed system Mood Operator Realized as an Application of Affective Rendering Techniques (MOR2ART), and it is designed to control expressed emotion during a musical performance using excerpts of a standard MIDI file (SMF) format. In musical performances, an emotion is expressed by the use of several performance profiles [2]. A...
Noritaka Moriguchi, Emi Wada, Masanobu Miura
Added 09 Nov 2010
Updated 09 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where FUNGAMES
Authors Noritaka Moriguchi, Emi Wada, Masanobu Miura
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