From Authored to Produced Time in Computer-Musician Interactions

Human musicians have since long developed methods and formalisms for ensemble authoring and real-time coordination and synchronization of their actions. Bringing such capabilities to computers and providing them with the ability to take part in musical interactions with human musicians, poses interesting challenges for authoring of time and interaction and real-time coordination that we address in this paper in the context of Mixed Music and the Antescofo project.