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East, West, South, North, and Center- Live Electronic Music based on Neural Network, Board Game, and Data-driven Instrument

Mu, Yunze
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-3839
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1649860276415522

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2022, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Composition.
East, West, South, North, and Center is a piece based on neural network technology. In this piece, performers use a set of tiles of a traditional Chinese board game Mahjong as a data-driven instrument by using a camera to recognize all mahjong tiles on the table. Beyond only recognizing the pictures on each mahjong tile, it can also recognize the position and rotation angle of each tile. All those parameters give a lot of potential for a piece with rich timbres and fun interactions. With all these technologies, it tells a fictional story through my music about a family's life. In this family, every member has their own thoughts. They fight, but it won't affect the fact that they love each other and will try to fix it after every fight. A lot of problems we get in our life are always magically solved while we fix our family problems. As a traditional saying that Chinese people say all the time: everything will end in the place where it begins. The inspiration for the title East, West, South, North and Center comes from a set of the five Mahjong tiles called east, west, south, north, center. All five tiles can symbolize how people play this board game: you need four players (east, west, south, and north) sitting around a square table (center). The five elements give the basic figure of a family.
Mara (Margaret) Helmuth, D.M.A. (Committee Member)
Douglas Knehans, D.M.A. (Committee Member)
Michael Fiday, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
44 p.
Music
live electronic music; object detection; mahjong; computer music; neural network; music composition

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  • Mu, Y. (2022). East, West, South, North, and Center- Live Electronic Music based on Neural Network, Board Game, and Data-driven Instrument [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1649860276415522

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mu, Yunze. East, West, South, North, and Center- Live Electronic Music based on Neural Network, Board Game, and Data-driven Instrument. 2022. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1649860276415522.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mu, Yunze. "East, West, South, North, and Center- Live Electronic Music based on Neural Network, Board Game, and Data-driven Instrument." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1649860276415522

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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