This paper describes a survey of contemporary approaches towards the use of spatial design in electroacoustic music, focusing on the type of spatial systems used by a sample of composers and the way they conceive the use of space in their music. Comparing the results with information gathered from seventeen articles by composers written on the topic in 1997, it is shown that composers nowadays ...

We propose a novel set of chroma-based audio features inspired by pitch class set theory and show their utility for style analysis of classical music by using them to classify recordings into historical periods. Musicologists have long studied how composers’ styles develop and influence each other, but usually based on manual analyses of the score or, more recently, automatic analyses on symbol...

In this paper the framework for a multimedia platform called ADRI is described which aids in playing the piano. A 3Dpiano with visualisation of notes was built in a virtual environment and connected with a real synthesizer using Midi to interact with a user. Multiple users can play together on the virtual piano in this 3D environment from different locations. Multiple agents were made, each wit...

This paper proposes novel computer-based interfaces for piano practicing. They are designed to display in real time certain well-defined sub-aspects of piano playing. They are intelligent and unobtrusive in that they adjust automatically to the needs of the practitioner so that no other interaction is needed than moving the piano keys. They include 1) a pattern display, finding recurring pitch ...

A weekly seminar consisting of seven composers and one computer scientist was convened for the purpose of exploring questions surrounding how technology can support aspects of the computer music composition process. The composers were introduced to an existing interactive software system for creating new musical interfaces and compositions, which they used throughout the seminar. The group enga...

In this paper we present an application of language modeling using n-grams to model the style of different composers. For this, we repeated the experiments performed in previous works by other authors using a corpus of 5 composers from the Baroque and Classical periods. In these experiments we found some signs that the results could be influenced by external factors other than the composers’ st...

BACKGROUND There is lack of neuroscientific studies investigating music processing with naturalistic stimuli, and brain responses to real music are, thus, largely unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study investigates event-related brain potentials (ERPs), skin conductance responses (SCRs) and heart rate (HR) elicited by unexpected chords of piano sonatas as they were originally arra...

GEMISIS (Government, Education, Medical, Industrial and Social Information Superhighway) 2000 was a multi-disciplinary European Union-funded Internet research initiative, based at the University of Salford. The project took the Internet as its theme and, in each of the areas mentioned, researchers identified the changes taking place and the implications of change to each discipline. The core ai...

Future component systems will require that components can be composed exibly. In contrast to current systems which only support a xed set of composition mechanisms, the component system should provide a composition language in which users can deene their own speciic composers. It is argued for an object-oriented setting that this will be possible by meta-programming the class-graph. Composers w...