Achievement

One of the Trainees, Colin Raffel's project last semester was motivated by one of the IGERT faculty and course speaker Prof. Michelle Levine's experiment on determining how different modes of musician interaction affected synchronization. It focused on algorithmically generating a score which indicated how well-synchronized two musical performers were. The approach he used worked but with some issues with normalization, but he unified his approach with one of the postdoctoral students in his lab who worked on rhythmic complexity, and produced a more robust synchronization algorithm. Colin will evaluate his technique with the data Michelle Levine has collected in her experiment, and he plans to present his work at a music cognition symposium at OSU in May, and co-author a paper on this technique and its extensions in the short term.