Hello! Welcome to the home page for My Master's Thesis, On the Formalization of Expression in Music Performed by Computers, completed in 1992 at UC San Diego under F. Richard Moore (chair), Gerald Balzano, and George E. Lewis.

Click the link above to download the thesis, and check out the sound examples below. See pp. 83 - 89 of the thesis for more information about these examples.

Sound Examples


Random Vibrato
Square-Sine Vibrato
Asymmetrical Vibrato
Yo-Yo Ma - phase vocoded
Excerpt from my piece "Telepresence" using lag-based portamento
Excerpt from my piece "Telepresence" using predictive portamento
Expressive Asynchrony
FM synth with PitchVoluration-based expressive deviations - pitch emphasis
FM synth with PitchVoluration-based expressive deviations - volume emphasis
FM synth with PitchVoluration-based expressive deviations - duration emphasis
FM synth with PitchVoluration-based expressive deviations - all parameters equal
Chopin Nocturne in Eb - flat (no deviation)
Chopin Nocturne in Eb - ival only (.2 .2 .2)
Chopin Nocturne in Eb - pval only (.2 .2 .2)
Chopin Nocturne in Eb - ival: .1 .05 .1, pval: .05 .05 .05
Chopin Nocturne in Eb - ival: .2 .1 .2, pval: .1 .1 .1
Bach Invention #4, Level Ratio = 1:1
Bach Invention #4, Level Ratio = 2:1
Bach Invention #4, Level Ratio = 3:1
Edgar Varése: Density 21.5 - MIDI
Edgar Varése: Density 21.5 - CSound

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