Koko-Bera island style music

Style in Music

Because music is not objectively descriptive or representational, the subjective qualities of music seem to be most important. Style is one of the most salient qualities of music, and in fact most descriptions of music refer to some aspect of musical style. Style in music can refer to historical periods, composers, performers, sonic texture, emotion, and genre. In recent years, many aspects of ...

DeepJ: Style-Specific Music Generation

Recent advances in deep neural networks have enabled algorithms to compose music that is comparable to music composed by humans. However, few algorithms allow the user to generate music with tunable parameters. The ability to tune properties of generated music will yield more practical benefits for aiding artists, filmmakers, and composers in their creative tasks. In this paper, we introduce De...

Koko: engineering affective applications

Music Style Transfer Issues: A Position Paper

Led by the success of neural style transfer on visual arts, there has been a rising trend very recently in the effort of music style transfer. However, “music style” is not yet a well-defined concept from a scientific point of view. The difficulty lies in the intrinsic multi-level and multi-modal character of music representation (which is very different from image representation). As a result,...

Image features in music style recognition

This work presents a novel approach to music style recognition inspired by feature extraction techniques used in image classification. To be able to utilize the image classification techniques, the 1D sound signal is transformed to its 2D representation — to a Mel-frequency spectrum. Small local areas of the spectrum are represented by 128dimensional SIFT descriptors from which Bag of Words (BO...