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- Title
Structures in Sound: Analysis of Classical Music Using the Information Length.
- Authors
Nicholson, Schuyler; Eun-jin Kim
- Abstract
We show that music is represented by fluctuations away from the minimum path through statistical space. Our key idea is to envision music as the evolution of a non-equilibrium system and to construct probability distribution functions (PDFs) from musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) files of classical compositions. Classical music is then viewed through the lens of generalized position and velocity, based on the Fisher metric. Through these statistical tools we discuss a way to quantitatively discriminate between music and noise.
- Subjects
SOUND measurement; FISHER information; MIDI (Standard); VELOCITY; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
- Publication
Entropy, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 7, p258
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e18070258