{"id":223172,"date":"2017-03-06T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=223172"},"modified":"2024-10-29T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:14:40","slug":"the-mysteries-of-music-and-the-key-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/the-mysteries-of-music-and-the-key-of-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysteries of music\u2014and the key of data"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s much that\u2019s mysterious about music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t really have a good understanding of why people like music at all,\u201d says David Temperley, professor of music theory at the URochester\u2019s Eastman School of Music. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t serve any obvious evolutionary purpose, and we don\u2019t understand why people like one song more than another or why some people like one song and other people don\u2019t. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re anywhere near uncovering all of the mysteries of music but there are a lot of questions that people are starting to answer with data science.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unlocking big data<\/h2>\n

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A Newscenter series on how Rochester is using data science to change how we research, how we learn, and how we understand our world.<\/h3>\n

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Researchers at the University are at the cutting edge of this intersection of data science and music, developing databases to study music history and perfecting ways in which computers can automatically identify a genre or singer, model aspects of music cognition and extract the emotional content of a song, predict musical tastes, and offer tools to improve musical performance and notation.<\/p>\n

As Temperley says, \u201cThere is a lot you can quantify about music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mimicking Human Music Recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014 the family of the late Marvin Gaye filed a suit against Robin Thicke, alleging Thicke\u2019s 2013 pop song \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d<\/a> infringed on Gaye\u2019s 1977 \u201cGot to Give It Up.\u201d<\/a> Analysts compared sheet music and studio arrangements to assess similarities and differences between the songs, ultimately awarding judgment in favor of Gaye\u2019s children.<\/p>\n

What if there was an accurate way for computers to identify these comparisons between vocal performance and performance styles?<\/p>\n

Mark Bocko, professor and chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering, is working toward that goal. He brings his combined love of music and science to the study of subjects ranging from audio and acoustics, to musical sound representation and data analytics applied to music.<\/p>\n

Bocko and his group have been using computers to analyze digitally recorded music files, with the goal of better understanding and mimicking the ways in which humans are able to recognize specific singers and musical performance styles. The project has applications not only in settling copyright disputes, but also in training musicians, studying trends in the development of musical styles, and improving music recommendation systems.<\/p>\n

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Mark Bocko gives a presentation during a workshop for the North East Music Informatics Special Interest Group (NEMISIG). The University hosted the workshop in February, which is an annual event\u2014with a rotating schedule of host universities\u2014that brings together researchers who work on music information retrieval.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen people listen to recorded music, they can recognize their favorite performers quickly,\u201d Bocko says. \u201cHuman listeners can also listen to recordings and quickly make high-level judgments such as \u2018Michael Bubl\u00e9 sounds a lot like Frank Sinatra.\u2019 We\u2019re studying what it is that people identify in the musical sound that might lead them to identify similarities in the performance styles of different musicians or to identify specific singers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toward that end, Bocko and his team use audio processing algorithms developed in his and other research labs around the world. An MP3 file of a song is good for reproducing sound for listeners, but this format does not allow researchers to easily identify properties such as pitch modulation, loudness contours, or tempo variations. Using a variety of audio signal processing algorithms, computers can extract such information from sound recordings.<\/p>\n

Further analysis of the data enables researchers to detect subtle structures. For instance, the computer can extract the pitch of every note in a song to show where, and in what ways, the singer took liberties. For example, if the frequency of a note in the written music is 220 Hertz, a singer might modulate the frequency in a technique called vibrato, which is intended to add warmth to a note. A singer might also drag slightly behind the tempo of the instruments, giving the song a more relaxed feel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you add together all of those little details, that defines the style of a performer and that\u2019s what makes it music,\u201d Bocko says. \u201cThe detailed structure in the very subtle changes, such as in timing and loudness, can really change the feel of a piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using data analysis tools from genomic signal processing, similar to that which is used to study sequences in DNA, Bocko and his team search musical data for recurrent patterns\u2014called motifs\u2014in the subtle inflections of various performers and performance styles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite similar to DNA sequencing,\u201d Bocko says. \u201cYou dig through all of this data looking for patterns that repeat throughout a performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bocko and his team coded motifs, and stored them in motif banks, for a number of performances. They then created computer programs to compare motif banks. In this way, they could demonstrate that Michael Bubl\u00e9 really does have a singing style similar to Frank Sinatra\u2019s, but less similar to Nat King Cole\u2019s.<\/p>\n

This approach may ultimately enable computers to learn to recognize the subtle nuances between singers and musical performances that human beings are able to pick up simply by listening to the music.<\/p>\n

And, it may offer quantifiable evidence of the similarities between \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d and \u201cGot to Give It Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Transcribing Music Automatically<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine you are a pianist and you hear something you would like to play\u2014such as an improvised blues solo or a song on YouTube\u2014for which there\u2019s no score. Then imagine that instead of having to listen to the piece over and over again and transcribe it yourself, a computer would do it for you with an impressive degree of accuracy.<\/p>\n

Zhiyao Duan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, together with PhD student Andrea Cogliati, has been working with Temperley to extract data from songs and use that data to produce automatic music transcriptions\u2014in effect, feeding audio into a computer and allowing the computer to generate the music score.<\/p>\n

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Human notation of a Bach Minuet<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A computer notation of the same Bach Minuet utilizing Zhiyao Duan’s automatic music transcription<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most commercial programs are only able to convert MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) performances, recorded via a computer keyboard or other electronic device, into music notation. MIDI files do not represent musical sound, but are data files that provide information\u2014such as the pitch of a note over time\u2014that tells an electronic device how to generate a sound. Recent methods developed in the research community are able to convert audio performances into MIDI, yet the level of accuracy isn\u2019t sufficient for the MIDI to be further converted into music notation.<\/p>\n

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Duan\u2019s program records a performance and transcribes it all the way from instrumental audio to MIDI file to music notation with a great degree of accuracy. Upon comparing his methods to existing software programs, in a blind test in which music theory students evaluated the accuracy of the transcripts, \u201cOur method significantly outperformed the other existing software in the pitch notation, the rhythm notation, and the placement of the notes,\u201d Duan says.<\/p>\n

Duan\u2019s ultimate goal is to offer this software for commercial use, where it can help users to spot errors in a performance, search for pieces that have similar melodies or chord progressions, analyze an improvised solo, or notate it for repeated playing.<\/p>\n

Duan and his team prerecord each note of a piano to act as a template for the computer\u2014in essence, teaching the computer the various notes. Each prerecorded note is known as an atom. The computer code reconstructs a performance by identifying the notes the performer played and putting together the corresponding atoms in the correct sequence to create a musical notation transcript.<\/p>\n

Duan uses signal processing and machine learning to help the computer identify the pitch and duration of each note and translate it into music notation. There\u2019s one pitfall to his algorithm, however. The same piano note can be notated in more than one way; the black key between a G and an A on a keyboard, for example, can be called either a G sharp or an A flat. In order to generate an accurate transcription and determine the note\u2019s proper notation, the computer must also be programmed to identify the proper rhythm, key, and time signature.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Temperley and his students at the Eastman School come in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working on the idea of using musical knowledge to help with transcription,\u201d Temperley says. \u201cIf you know something about music, then you know what patterns are likely to occur; and then you can do more accurate transcription.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A recording of a human being playing a Chopin piece vs. an acoustic rendering of the computer’s transcription of the performance.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nRock Song and Wikipedia Corpus<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>While Duan and Bocko work on the engineering side, designing algorithms to extract information from music, researchers at the Eastman School often provide ground-truth data that informs those algorithms.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost machine learning tools have to be trained in some way on some direct data and then they can use that to analyze new data,\u201d Temperley says. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to develop a dataset of correct data that a machine learning system can then be trained on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Temperley and his team at the Eastman School are creating a database of rock songs<\/a> and analyzing the harmonies and melodies by hand. This can be useful for tasks such as classifying songs by genre, training systems to extract melodies, or using \u201cquery by humming\u201d databases, where users can hum a tune into a computer that\u00a0then finds the song.<\/p>\n

Darren Mueller, assistant professor of musicology at the Eastman School, is creating a corpus of information based on a large-scale data analysis of Wikipedia\u2019s coverage of various musical performers and genres.<\/p>\n

Did more people start posting on Beyonce\u2019s Wikipedia page after her 2013 Superbowl appearance? Why is there more information on Wikipedia about an obscure jazz record than there is about an early-career Mozart piece? Do male composers have more Wikipedia entries than their female counterparts?<\/p>\n

Using computer algorithms and machine learning, Mueller hopes to analyze how information about music is distributed, who is using Wikipedia, and the types of information being posted. He also hopes to show that Wikipedia can be a valuable source of information, if only as a springboard for defining a concept or identifying the drummer in a particular band.<\/p>\n

\u201cI come from the humanities, which tends to value close reading: taking a text or a musical score and looking at the details to see what they might say about larger issues,\u201d Mueller says. \u201cIn data science, it\u2019s the opposite. Data science is taking a lot of information and putting it through different algorithms to come up with different trends and patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mueller envisions compiling the data in an\u00a0online tool for music scholars. He also foresees using the data to improve algorithms for extracting similarities between pieces and musicians, such as in the work of Bocko and his group.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually musicians are a little skeptical when anyone is, like, \u2018Oh, I want to quantify music,\u2019 because they put their hearts and souls into music,\u201d Mueller says. \u201cIt\u2019s their art and there\u2019s always this sort of tension between the arts and science, but there\u2019s no reason these two things can\u2019t work together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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