New Applications of Content Processing of Music
Philippe Aigrain · Journal of New Music Research · 1999
Although the digital processing of music has been a reality for many years – from studio production to home reproduction, from musical instruments to editing – we are still very far from having a clear picture of what role content processing of music is likely to play in tomorrow's music world. Content processing is a general term covering feature extraction and modelling techniques for enabling basic retrieval, interaction, and creation functionality. The aim of using this term is to establish a direct analogy with similar concepts in image and video processing. This paper suggests how a variety of music-related activities could make use of some existing or quickly maturing content-processing technologies. In particular, it focuses on new aspects of listening, interacting with music, finding and comparing music, performing it, editing it, exchanging music with others or selling it, teaching it, analyzing it, and criticizing it.