How identification of rhythmic categories depends on tempo and meter
Peter Desain, Carel Jansen, Henkjan Honing · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2000
Extended abstract In previous work we elaborated a way to systematically investigate the perceptual division of a continuous space of temporal patterns into discrete rhythmic categories (Aarts, Desain & Jansen, in preparation; Aarts & Jansen, 1999). We studied the perception of short rhythmical patterns by sampling the space of all possible patterns of three interonset-intervals (IOI), with a total duration of one second. For this, musicians were asked to transcribe these short patterns of three IOIs (i.e. four onsets) into music notation. It was shown that subjects were able to identify rhythmic categories as regions of the rhythm space. Next to an insight in the perception of rhythmic categories, the results are essential in the design and construction of automatic music transcription systems (see Cemgil, Desain & Kappen, in press).