Recreation Through Music

Education through recreation.

Expanding Aquatic Observations through Recreation

1 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom, 2 National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 3 Lowestoft Laboratory, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Suffolk, United Kingdom, 4 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, 5 School of Biological and...

Extending Music Notation Through Programming1

Traditional notation has led to the continuation of a traditional musical approach in which scores are static descriptions to be realized by performers. Borrowing programming concepts from computer science leads to score-like descriptions with the capability of expressing dynamic processes and interaction with performers. The implications for composition, performance, and future research are di...

Celebrating life stories through music.

Music has always been a meaningful part of my life. I have been studying and performing since the age of five, but it was not until I was an adult, when my father was approaching the end of his life, that I realized just how profound the connection to music can be. While my father’s health was in decline, our strongest connections came from listening to music together. Listening to music that h...

Teaching a Music Search Engine Through Play

Systems able to find a song based on a sung, hummed, or whistled melody are called Query-By-Humming (QBH) systems. We propose an approach to improve search performance of a QBH system based on data collected from an online social music game, Karaoke Callout. Users of Karaoke Callout generate training data for the search engine, allowing both ongoing personalization of query processing as well a...