World New Music Days–BIS

World Music Technology: Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Automatic Music Prediction

Music has been shown to form an essential part of the human experience—every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it may be, music has evolved into a variety of genres, peculiar to particular cultures. In fact people acquire musical skill, understanding, and appreciation specific to the music they have been exposed to. This process of enculturation builds mental structures t...

What In The World Is Music?

Conference Proceedings World Congress Music Therapy 1999

The use of psychedelics in psychotherapy setting with music, as well as comparative research on drug-induced altered forms of perception have been roots of music therapy, (e.g. GIM). Changed perception filter functions have been used for psychotherapeutic issues but the uncontrolled use of psychoactive substances in popcultural environments increased social and personal problems. Valid estimati...

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O Brave New World: The Dark Side of Cyberspace

This article focuses on some of the negative aspects of cyberspace andcyberculture. First, it offers an examination of the impact of our use ofsocial media, and Facebook in particular, on our psyches, pointing out thatusers of social media can be thought of as audiences. These audiencesand information about them can be sold to marketers and advertisers.Next, it offers a case study of a widespre...