Subject: Re: About Silence From: John Lazzaro <john.lazzaro@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 08:59:20 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic<elsonidoq@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since the very beginning of my research I had trouble modeling silence. The > silence is not just another pitch which has the ability of not to sound. I > think that silence has to be treated apart from pitches, but I don't know how. Rests (the musical notation analog to silence) are often (but not always) markers that separate phrases or motives. If your models are rich enough to model melodies hierarchically (a phrase is an ordered list of motives, a melody is an ordered list of phrases), then a natural way to treat silence is as a cue for segmentation. -- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro john [dot] lazzaro [at] gmail [dot] com