Vienna Talk 2010 on Music Acoustics "Bridging the Gaps"      September 19–21

Music performance and playing technique (W. Goebl, G. Widmer)

The past decades yielded a wealth of research that cut through the various aspects of music performance: from the printed score to the actual performance, from CD recordings to symbolic data, from automatic performance rendering to individual style analysis, from the brain to the actual body movements. Advances in technology and computing power accompanied and potentially supported this development. Many of these findings could have direct impact for the performing musician, but only in rare cases were such findings applied to actual music practice. How could these findings made accessible to the performing musician? How could new technology (i.e., three-dimensional motion capture equipment) and methodology (i.e., computer modelling of individual style) be used to enhance a musicians experience in practicing and performing? The present thematic session aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds, music teachers and students to try to bridge – or at least to reduce – the potential gap between science and performance.

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