Music Petri nets are a mathematical formalism that has been already adopted in the context of music information analysis and manipulation, concerning both symbolic scores and audio content. Among the main advantages, it is worth mentioning their possibility to clearly describe music processes and transformations inside a music composition, their easy-to-understand graphical representation, and the availability of formal tools to analyze the nets thus obtained. But previous research has also highlighted some limits in the usability of music Petri nets, due to an interface far from the ones composers and performers are used to, such as digital score editors and digital audio workstations. In this paper, we propose a solution that combines the descriptive power of such a mathematical formalism with the ease of use of editing tools to which musicians are accustomed. The idea is to design human-computer interfaces that, standing between the musician and the mathematical formalism, can hide the details of the underlying Petri nets.

Formalisms and Interfaces to Manipulate Music Information: The Case of Music Petri Nets / A. Baratè, G. Haus, L.A. Ludovico - In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA 2018) / [a cura di] L. Constantine, H.P. da Silva, M.J Escalona, M. Helfert, A. Jimenez Ramirez. - [s.l] : SCITEPRESS, 2018 Sep. - ISBN 9789897583285. - pp. 81-90 (( Intervento presentato al 2. convegno International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications tenutosi a Seville nel 2018.

Formalisms and Interfaces to Manipulate Music Information: The Case of Music Petri Nets

A. Baratè;G. Haus;L.A. Ludovico
2018

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Music Petri nets are a mathematical formalism that has been already adopted in the context of music information analysis and manipulation, concerning both symbolic scores and audio content. Among the main advantages, it is worth mentioning their possibility to clearly describe music processes and transformations inside a music composition, their easy-to-understand graphical representation, and the availability of formal tools to analyze the nets thus obtained. But previous research has also highlighted some limits in the usability of music Petri nets, due to an interface far from the ones composers and performers are used to, such as digital score editors and digital audio workstations. In this paper, we propose a solution that combines the descriptive power of such a mathematical formalism with the ease of use of editing tools to which musicians are accustomed. The idea is to design human-computer interfaces that, standing between the musician and the mathematical formalism, can hide the details of the underlying Petri nets.
music; Petri nets; formalization; manipulation; human-computer interfaces
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