Music performance correlation and autonomic adjustment

• US 7,514,623 B1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Issued: 04/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Williams, Megan E., Spinler, Amy J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Donels; Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US12/163,428
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• Field of Search: 846/12, 482 3- 9, 482/900, 482/901, 700/94
• US Class Current: 84/612
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/06 heartbeat rate only
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/031 Musical analysis, i.e. isolation, extraction or identification of musical elements or musical parameters from a raw acoustic signal or from an encoded audio signal neural networks for electrophonic musical instruments or musical processing G10H2250/311
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/371 Vital parameter control, i.e. musical instrument control based on body signals, e.g. brainwaves, pulsation, temperature, perspiration; biometric information signals from body positions or movements G10H2220/321
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products for music performance correlation and autonomic adjustment. Exemplary embodiments include a method for music performance correlation and autonomic adjustment, the method including providing a set of musical pieces during an activity having associated performance parameters, tracking the associated performance parameters during reception of the set of musical pieces, in response to an increase of the associated performance parameters, identifying a subset of musical pieces of the set of musical pieces, analyzing musical elements of the subset of musical pieces, generating a correlation between the performance parameters and the musical elements, selecting an additional subset of musical pieces having the musical elements of the subset of musical pieces and in response to a decrease of the associated performance parameters, providing at least one of the subset of musical pieces and the additional subset of musical pieces.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for music performance correlation and autonomic adjustment, the method consisting of:

providing a set of musical pieces during an activity having associated performance parameters;

tracking the associated performance parameters during reception of the set of musical pieces;

in response to an increase of the associated performance parameters, identifying a subset of musical pieces of the set of musical pieces;

analyzing musical elements of the subset of musical pieces;

generating a correlation between the performance parameters and the musical elements;

selecting an additional subset of musical pieces having the musical elements of the subset of musical pieces; and

in response to a decrease of the associated performance parameters, providing at least one of the subset of musical pieces and the additional subset of musical pieces,

wherein the musical elements includes at least one of tempo, beat, rhythm, meter pitch, timbre, accent, phrasing, dynamics, melody, texture, harmony, form and lyrical factors.