A study on artist similarity from raga performance

Music information retrieval (MIR) is an emerging research area that receives growing attention from both the research community and the music industry. It addresses the problem of querying and retrieving certain types of music from large music database. People searched music of their choice from database by song title, composer and performer. Features of interest may include melody, harmony, rhythm, and instrumentation. Although every raga has a characteristic mood of its own, differences occur between renditions of the same raga based on the gharana or personal style of the artist. This paper discusses the use of the projection pursuit techniques along with mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) to analyze the similarity between different artists singing the same raga.