A Cooperative Multi-agent-based Musical Scoring System for Tsugaru and Nambu Shamisen

摘要

Aomori is located in the most northern pref. of main land in Japan. And it is uniquely situated within the amalgam of local instruments Tsugaru and Nambu's traditional local arts. Referring to [1, 2], the city's traditional music preservation society and schools have eagerly wished a technics to precisely score local music, especially traditional Tsugaru Shamisen.This music will be preserved as Western & Shamisen scores, which avoid relying individually on the oral education of this kind of traditional local music for trainees. In this research, “Electronic Shamisen” has been invented with pick-up microphones attached with strings and automated scoring equipment, which automatically records scores from the sound resources by cooperative agent method. Relevant researches are shown in [1-4].