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Quantifying the Strategy Taken by a Pair of Ensemble Hand-Clappers under the Influence of Delay

Pairs of subjects were placed in two acoustically isolated rooms clapping together under an influence of delay up to 68 ms. Their trials were recorded and analyzed based on a definition of compensation factor or CF. This parameter was calculated from the recorded observations for both performers as a discrete function of time and thought of as a measure of the strategy taken by the subjects while clapping. Increasing the delay CF was shown to be increased linearly as it is desired to avoid tempo decrease for such high latencies. Theoretically a critical value for CF was defined as tempo over measure (or beat) duration and was used to explain why very short latencies may lead to a tempo acceleration in accordance with Chafe effect.

Authors: Darabi, Nima; Svensson, Peter; Farner, Snorre
Affiliations: The Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, NTNU; IRCAM(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention:125 (October 2008) Paper Number:7567 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Listening Tests & Psychoacoustics

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