John Paul Ito

Media Examples to "Focal Impulses and Expressive Performance," in proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval

Video Example 2:

Novices simply string individual motions together (having played for only one year, this violinist has only minimal larger groupings; the first few seconds give the idea): 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtBqtMJ5LU

Only a year or so later, however, hierarchical organization is aready much more developed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsPsgQNZ7KM&list=UUCCtFDgVafBzkLKeALBRmYA&index=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-qgBIPEwbw&list=UUCCtFDgVafBzkLKeALBRmYA&index=1