The Zürich Performance Workstation Project — An Overview

If Susanne Langer is right in claiming that there is an isomorphism between musical structure and feelings, the concept of musical structure must include the work of interpretation. We think that Langer’s hypothesis is very difficult to verify. To make our argument clear, I want to present the current work on the mathematical theory of interpretation by our research group at the Zurich Multi Media Lab. The principal result of this work is implemented in software called “performance workstation” on NEXTSTEP computers.