Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data

Audio recordings provide mankind with a form of historical preservation. They provide us with an opportunity to have a glimpse into the past on what life was like during that era. Since the mid-19th century, music were recorded in the form of analog signals and stored either in tapes or records. Not...

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Main Author: Chua, Chanel Wan Ting
Other Authors: Ong Keng Sian, Vincent
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Published: 2018
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-746202023-07-07T16:17:26Z Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data Chua, Chanel Wan Ting Ong Keng Sian, Vincent School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering DRNTU::Engineering Audio recordings provide mankind with a form of historical preservation. They provide us with an opportunity to have a glimpse into the past on what life was like during that era. Since the mid-19th century, music were recorded in the form of analog signals and stored either in tapes or records. Not only that, excessive mechanical tension can degrade tapes and records. For example, each time a cassette is being loaded into a recorder, the mechanism may damage the tape if the guide pins are not properly aligned. When a tape is being ejected from the recorder, it must also be ejected properly to avoid damaging the tape. At tape running through a cleaning machine under certain conditions can also stretch the tape and introduce skew error. Finally, weather conditions can also cause the cassette tape to degrade. During production, the substrates are pre-stretched and if the tapes are being heated up again, they may deform. Excessive climate fluctuations may also cause the tape to shrink. No matter how the tapes or records are treated by the user, degradation can only be controlled to a certain extent, as they have a limited shelf life. Fortunately, with the level of technology we have today, we are able preserve our music through digitization. This ensures that we would have a digital copy of the audio even if the physical media is no longer playable. Bachelor of Engineering 2018-05-22T06:37:29Z 2018-05-22T06:37:29Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74620 en Nanyang Technological University 51 p. application/pdf
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Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data
description Audio recordings provide mankind with a form of historical preservation. They provide us with an opportunity to have a glimpse into the past on what life was like during that era. Since the mid-19th century, music were recorded in the form of analog signals and stored either in tapes or records. Not only that, excessive mechanical tension can degrade tapes and records. For example, each time a cassette is being loaded into a recorder, the mechanism may damage the tape if the guide pins are not properly aligned. When a tape is being ejected from the recorder, it must also be ejected properly to avoid damaging the tape. At tape running through a cleaning machine under certain conditions can also stretch the tape and introduce skew error. Finally, weather conditions can also cause the cassette tape to degrade. During production, the substrates are pre-stretched and if the tapes are being heated up again, they may deform. Excessive climate fluctuations may also cause the tape to shrink. No matter how the tapes or records are treated by the user, degradation can only be controlled to a certain extent, as they have a limited shelf life. Fortunately, with the level of technology we have today, we are able preserve our music through digitization. This ensures that we would have a digital copy of the audio even if the physical media is no longer playable.
author2 Ong Keng Sian, Vincent
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title Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data
title_short Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data
title_full Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data
title_fullStr Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data
title_full_unstemmed Extracting performance data from great piano performances - extraction of performance data
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