‘Blues’ music and psychiatry

BLUES from Music: BLind Underdetermined Extraction of Sources from Music

In this paper we propose to use an instantaneous ICA method (BLUES) to separate the instruments in a real music stereo recording. We combine two strong separation techniques to segregate instruments from a mixture: ICA and binary time-frequency masking. By combining the methods, we are able to make use of the fact that the sources are differently distributed in both space, time and frequency. O...

Spirituality, music and psychiatry

The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Music and Mental Models

The idea that there is a grammar of music is probably as old as the idea of grammar itself, and the idea that there should be formal grammars of music followed equally hard upon the Chomskean application to natural languages of the formal techniques used to analyse logical and mathematical languages – see Winograd 1968, Lindblom and Sundberg 1972, Steedman 1973, 1977, Longuet-Higgins 1978, John...

Music in Psychiatry

Saul: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp* and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." Music was a treatment for meflt3 diseases in ancient Egypt and Greec. The present interest in therapy dates from 1947. Sir SteUa Wilson, then Music Director of ^ Arts Council, pointed out tP, altho...

The birth of the blues: how physics underlies music

Art and science have intimate connections, although these are often underappreciated. Western music provides compelling examples. The sensation of harmony and related melodic development are rooted in physical principles that can be understood with simple mathematics. The focus of this review is not the better known acoustics of instruments, but the structure of music itself. The physical basis...