The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.

Although human musical performances represent one of the most valuable achievements of mankind, the best musicians perform imperfectly. Musical rhythms are not entirely accurate and thus inevitably deviate from the ideal beat pattern. Nevertheless, computer generated perfect beat patterns are freque...

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Autores principales:	Holger Hennig, Ragnar Fleischmann, Anneke Fredebohm, York Hagmayer, Jan Nagler, Annette Witt, Fabian J Theis, Theo Geisel
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:efeea662fce54633944ea5692da4dd542021-11-18T07:35:44ZThe nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0026457https://doaj.org/article/efeea662fce54633944ea5692da4dd542011-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22046289/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Although human musical performances represent one of the most valuable achievements of mankind, the best musicians perform imperfectly. Musical rhythms are not entirely accurate and thus inevitably deviate from the ideal beat pattern. Nevertheless, computer generated perfect beat patterns are frequently devalued by listeners due to a perceived lack of human touch. Professional audio editing software therefore offers a humanizing feature which artificially generates rhythmic fluctuations. However, the built-in humanizing units are essentially random number generators producing only simple uncorrelated fluctuations. Here, for the first time, we establish long-range fluctuations as an inevitable natural companion of both simple and complex human rhythmic performances. Moreover, we demonstrate that listeners strongly prefer long-range correlated fluctuations in musical rhythms. Thus, the favorable fluctuation type for humanizing interbeat intervals coincides with the one generically inherent in human musical performances.Holger HennigRagnar FleischmannAnneke FredebohmYork HagmayerJan NaglerAnnette WittFabian J TheisTheo GeiselPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 10, p e26457 (2011)
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description	Although human musical performances represent one of the most valuable achievements of mankind, the best musicians perform imperfectly. Musical rhythms are not entirely accurate and thus inevitably deviate from the ideal beat pattern. Nevertheless, computer generated perfect beat patterns are frequently devalued by listeners due to a perceived lack of human touch. Professional audio editing software therefore offers a humanizing feature which artificially generates rhythmic fluctuations. However, the built-in humanizing units are essentially random number generators producing only simple uncorrelated fluctuations. Here, for the first time, we establish long-range fluctuations as an inevitable natural companion of both simple and complex human rhythmic performances. Moreover, we demonstrate that listeners strongly prefer long-range correlated fluctuations in musical rhythms. Thus, the favorable fluctuation type for humanizing interbeat intervals coincides with the one generically inherent in human musical performances.
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author	Holger Hennig Ragnar Fleischmann Anneke Fredebohm York Hagmayer Jan Nagler Annette Witt Fabian J Theis Theo Geisel
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title	The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.
title_short	The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.
title_full	The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.
title_fullStr	The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.
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The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms.

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