Editorial: Bridging Music Informatics With Music Cognition

Music cognition: Bridging computation and insights from cognitive neuroscience

In recent years, computational models have become an increasingly important part both of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. In tandem with these developments neuroscientific and cognitive investigations of musical experience and behaviour have been gathering pace. In this context, music cognition constitutes a rich and challenging area of cognitive science in which the processing of ...

Music Informatics Laboratory

The first Music Informatics Laboratory at a Computer Science Department in Scandinavia has been formed and is active with research and education of Master Thesis students, Ph.D. Students and post Doc's. Our laboratory runs a European Network among 13 universities, the MOSART project (Music Orchestration Systems in Algorithmic Research and Technology). The network is coordinated by Jens Arnspang...

Music Perception and Cognition

Music perception and cognition is the area of cognitive psychology devoted to determining the mental mechanisms underlying our appreciation of music, and in this chapter we review the major findings. We begin with the perception and cognition of pitch, which is the most thoroughly researched area in the field. We then consider perceptual organization in music in the dimension of time, followed ...

Music Perception and Cognition

Foafing the Music: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Music Recommendation

In this paper we give an overview of the Foafing the Music system. The system uses the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and RDF Site Summary (RSS) vocabularies for recommending music to a user, depending on the user’s musical tastes and listening habits. Music information (new album releases, podcast sessions, audio from MP3 blogs, related artists’ news and upcoming gigs) is gathered from thousands of...