Melody memory project: Increasing dementia awareness through traditional gamelan music

Melody Maker The Music

In this paper we describe how we have developed an application that is capable of evolving melodies with some human help to guide it. We have developed this system using evolutionary algorithms and interactive evolution. The user can use the application to, first, evolve short blocks of notes, and second, to combine these blocks into longer melodies using more evolutionary techniques. The resul...

Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music

There are striking similarities and intriguing connections between the tradition of gamelan music in Java and Javanese mystical traditions. A game-lan is an ensemble of gongs, metalophones, drums, bowed lute, xylophone, zither, bamboo flute, and singers. Gamelans of many different types exist in Java, Bali, and Lombok, as well as in Malaysia. Some include only a few gongs; others have up to fif...

Gamelan Sampul: Laptop Sleeve Gamelan

The Gamelan Sampul is a laptop sleeve with embedded circuitry that allows users to practice playing Javanese gamelan instruments without a full set of instruments. It is part of a larger project that aims to develop a set of portable and mobile tools for learning, recording and performing classical Javanese gamelan music. The accessibility of a portable Javanese gamelan set introduces the music...

Selection of Melody Lines for Music Databases

Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music: Mirex 2011

In this paper we describe our submission for the audio melody extraction task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2011 campaign. The system presented here is an updated version of the one submitted to last year’s campaign. Following a detailed analysis of each step of our method, system parameters have been optimised for melody extraction and the implementation is now...