Physicist develops stochastic model to describe interbeat variation patterns between musicians
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Physicist Holger Hennig, currently with OptWare in Munich, Germany, has developed a stochastic model to describe synchronization that occurs in human musical rhythms that involve more than one person. In his paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Henning describes how he discovered that when two musicians are playing together, a beat played by one person can depend on up to several minutes of the other person's prior interbeat intervals—the model he developed can be used, he claims, to produce more natural sounding computer generated music.