Machine Musician

My research with Dr.Parag Chordia is about using MIR(Music Information Retrieval) techniques to train the computer to listen and emulate a human musician. The research started with trying to make the computer listen and comprehend the different strokes(about 13 of them) of the mridangam, the primary South Indian Drum. It was a semester long effort and in the subsequent posts, I'll post the results and the explanation of that.

I am currently working on a live performance piece out of this to be presented at the Listening Machines concert here at Georgia Tech. It would be a 7-8 minutes piece in the traditional "tani avarthanam" or "jugal bandhi" style.