Modeling musically meaningful choreography

Sommer Gentry; Eric Feron

doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400950

Modeling musically meaningful choreography

Sommer Gentry, Eric Feron

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Abstract

An automated choreographer is proposed to choose musically expressive dance moves, with a ran-domized move selection to preclude prediction by judges or audiences. Dance moves and music bars are scored on emotional attribute scales. At each bar, an optimization model ranks the move alternatives on their musical appropriateness, and a move is selected from a distribution biased towards the highest ranked moves. This biased distribution is discovered from performer-created dance routines, and the optimization model is validated by consistent bias across routines. The role of surprise in music and dance is also examined. The automated choreographer will find application in any setting in which optimizing some objective must be balanced with retaining the element of surprise.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
Pages	3880-3885
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400950
State	Published - Dec 1 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004 - The Hague, Netherlands Duration: Oct 10 2004 → Oct 13 2004

Publication series

Name	Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Volume	4
ISSN (Print)	1062-922X

Other

Other	2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	The Hague
Period	10/10/04 → 10/13/04

Keywords

Collaborative intelligent systems
Intelligent systems
Policy and decision support systems
Systems modeling and control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering

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Gentry, S & Feron, E 2004, Modeling musically meaningful choreography. in 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004. Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 4, pp. 3880-3885, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004, The Hague, Netherlands, 10/10/04. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400950

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