Measures of Temporal Pattern Complexity
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of New Music Research
- Vol. 29 (1) , 61-69
- https://doi.org/10.1076/0929-8215(200003)29:01;1-p;ft061
Abstract
In this study, three measures of temporal pattern complexity were compared with regard to their perceptual validity. The first measure, based on the work of Tanguiane (1993), uses the idea that a temporal pattern can be described in terms of (elaborations of) more simple patterns, which occur simultaneously at different levels. The second measure is based on the complexity measure for finite sequences proposed by Lempel and Ziv (1976), which is related to the number of steps in a self-delimiting production process by which such a sequence is presumed to be generated. The third measure, newly developed here, is rooted in the theoretical framework of rhythm perception of Povel and Essens (1985). It takes into account the ease of coding a temporal pattern and the complexity of the segments resulting from this coding. The perceptual validity of the three measures was evaluated in an experiment in which subjects judged the complexity of 35 temporal patterns. Correlations between the three measures and the coll...Keywords
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