The author has been performing with GenJam, the Genetic Jammer, for nearly 20 years and has accumulated a wealth of experiences in performing live jazz with technology. This paper presents a discussion of the use of technology in jazz, both from the performer’s and from the audience’s perspective, and it proposes a classification scheme for live performance that is geared to mainstream performi...

Here are two papers about Music and Knowledge Representation, published in the International Computer Music Conference (1991, Montreal). The first one is an application of the NéOpus inference system to the analysis of jazz chord sequences. The second one is an architecture for representing knowledge used by Jazz Musicians while accompanying a soloist.

From fusion jazz, to quiet storm, neo-soul and lo-fi hip hop, jazz has often been used as a marker of authenticity in contemporary Black popular genres. Given his disproportionate popularity, the class-ing, racialization, gendering Kenny G culture become, effect, lens through which we evaluate all forms crossover jazz. Ultimately, critiques that focus on means dismiss such musics are rooted rac...

Music records are largely a byproduct of collaborative efforts. Understanding how musicians collaborate to create records provides a step to understand the social production of music. This work leverages recent methods from trajectory mining to investigate how musicians have collaborated over time to record albums. Our case study analyzes data from the Discogs.com database from the Jazz domain....

The landing mechanisms of a basic dance jump, known as a sauté, have not been fully explored and the effect of shoe design on landing mechanisms is unknown. This study used 3D motion analysis to explore sagittal plane kinematic differences in a dance jump landing as a result of wearing jazz shoes. Jazz shoe design significantly affected metatarsophalangeal and midfoot motion, suggesting a reduc...

Abstract: Das Erlernen von Jazz stellt eine Herausforderung für viele Musiker dar. Insbesondere Spieler von Harmonieinstrumenten (z. B. Klavier oder Gitarre) müssen die auftauchenden harmonischen Zusammenhänge verstehen und im eigenen Spiel einbauen können. Zum Nachvollziehen der zum Teil komplexen Harmoniken reicht die Unterrichtszeit mit einem Lehrer oftmals nicht aus. In dieser Arbeit deuten...

We report on an exercise intended to help articulate constraints on locomotion and their implications for design. The assumption that locomotion is in service of navigation leads us to consider both cognitive and mechanical constraints. The exercise is to design support for accessing files in a hierarchical file system in the course of ordinary computer-based work. Characterizing the design sit...