Steve Coleman “The Oracle”

Discographic Information

Instrument	as
Total Duration	174.0 s
Position in Track	00:42-03:36
Album Title	Extensions
Label	ECM (ECM 1410)
Recording Date	1989-09-01
Line Up	Steve Coleman (as); Kevin Eubanks (g); Dave Holland (b); Marvin Smith (dr)
Style	POSTBOP
Key	Bb-min
Signature	3/4
Groove/Feel	LATIN
Tonality Class	FREE
MusicBrainz ID	e71aeb1c-ee18-466c-a417-947c078e2c21
More Info	Wikipedia

Piano Roll

MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb-   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes	551
Number of Bars	94 bars
Number of Choruses	1
Mean Tempo	97.7 (MEDIUM SLOW)
Event Density	3.17 Notes/s
Metrical Event Density	5.83 Notes/bar
Median Swing Ratio	0.95:1	Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.
Metrical Centroid	3	Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.
Syncopicity	41.7 %	Share of syncopated notes.
Ambitus	51-78 (27)	Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.
Extrema ratio	45.2 %	Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

MIDI Pitch Histogram

Semitone Interval Histogram

Refined Contour Histogram

Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

Metrical circle maps divides the bar duration into equal sized bins (48 in this case) and maps metrical positions to the corresponding bin. (Labels normalized to 4/4 measure).

Duration Class (Abs. and Rel.) Histogram

Relative duration classes are based on the duration of the beat. Absolute duration classes are based on 120 bpm. See here for a definition of classes.

Midlevel Analysis Main Types Histogram

Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

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