Much polyphonic music is constructed from several melodic lines known as voices woven together. Identifying these constituent voices is useful for musicological analysis and music information retrieval; however, this voiceidentification process is time-consuming for humans to carry out. Computational solutions have been proposed which automate voice segregation, but these rely heavily on human ...

The objective was to check music and voice message influence on the vital signals and facial expressions of patients in physiological or induced comas. A randomized controlled clinical trial was done. The sample was consisted of 30 patients from Intensive Care Unit, being divided in 2 groups: Group Control (without auditory stimuli) and Experimental Group (with auditory stimuli). The patients w...

The present study investigated the minimum amount of auditory stimulation that allows differentiation of spoken voices, instrumental music, and environmental sounds. Three new findings were reported. 1) All stimuli were categorized above chance level with 50 ms-segments. 2) When a peak-level normalization was applied, music and voices started to be accurately categorized with 20 ms-segments. Wh...

It has been long speculated that expression of emotions from different modalities have the same underlying ‘code’, whether it be a dance step, musical phrase, or tone of voice. This is the first attempt to implement this theory across three modalities, inspired by the polyvalence and repeatability of robotics. We propose a unifying framework to generate emotions across voice, gesture, and music...

In the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), the automated detection of the singing voice within a given music recording constitutes a challenging and important research problem. In this study, our goal is to find those segments within a classical opera recording, where one or several singers are active. As our main contributions, we first propose a novel audio feature that extends a stat...

All work of culture industries, in some way or the other is preoccupied with claims to authenticity. This insight comes from the recent work of the sociologist Richard A. Peterson that has been inspired by Hobsbawm and Ranger’s (1983) landmark volume on ‘invented tradition’. While much of Peterson’s earlier work focuses on the organization and production of popular music (for a review, see Pete...

The notions of ‘voice’, as well as, homophony and polyphony, are thought to be well understood by musicians. Listeners are thought to be capable of perceiving multiple ‘voices’ in music. However, there exists no systematic theory that describes how ‘voices’ can be identified, especially, when polyphonic and homophonic elements are mixed together. The paper presents different views of what ‘voic...

Singing Voice Detection (SVD) is a classification task that determines whether there singing voice in given audio segment. While current systems produce high-quality results on this task, the reported experiments are usually limited to popular music. A Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network (LRCN) was adapted detect vocals new dataset of electronic music evaluate its performance different ge...