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Playing with Cases: Rendering Expressive Music with Case-Based Reasoning
This article surveys long-term research on the problem of rendering expressive music by means of AI techniques
with an emphasis on case-based reasoning (CBR). Following a brief overview discussing why people prefer listening to
expressive music instead of nonexpressive synthesized music, we examine a representative selection of well-known approaches
to expressive computer,music performance with an emphasis on AI-related approaches. In the main part of the article we focus
on the existing CBR approaches to the problem of synthesizing expressive music, and particularly on Tempo-Express, a
case-based reasoning system developed at our Institute, for applying musically acceptable tempo transformations to
monophonic audio recordings of musical performances. Finally we briefly describe an ongoing extension of our previous work
consisting of complementing audio information with information about the gestures of the musician. Music is played through
our bodies, therefore capturing the gesture of the performer is a fundamental aspect that has to be taken into account in future
expressive music renderings. This article is based on the >2011 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture> given by the first
author at AAAI/IAAI 2011.This research is partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain under the project NEXT-CBR (TIN2009-13692-C03-01) and the Generalitat de Catalunya AGAUR Grant 2009-SGR-1434Peer Reviewe