Coloring musical rhythms with colored noise
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Medical Xpress) -- Most people dont like things to be too perfect and this may well apply to the music they enjoy. Since no musician plays absolutely in time, electronically generated rhythms are often humanized, i.e. post-processed in recording studios to make them sound more natural. In particular, every beat is randomly shifted slightly in time a method whose justification had up to now never been scrutinized.