The interactive game environment, Ghost in the Cave, presented in this short paper, is a work still in progress. The game involves participants in an activity using non-verbal emotional expressions. Two teams use expressive gestures in either voice or body movements to compete. Each team has an avatar controlled either by singing into a microphone or by moving in front of a video camera. Partic...

Singing synthesis applications have recently been developed to create natural singing voices. Applications such as VOCALOID can synthesize singing voices by inputting lyrics and scores, and musical expressions such as vibrato and portamento are added to the singing voices by controlling pitches. This control is crucial to synthesize natural singing voices, but users are required to edit the pit...

Polyphonic music files were analyzed using the set of symbols that produced the Minimal Entropy Description, which we call the Fundamental Scale. This allowed us to create a novel space to represent music pieces by developing: (a) a method to adjust a textual description from its original scale of observation to an arbitrarily selected scale, (b) a method to model the structure of any textual d...

This paper presents a tool for extracting and normalizing temporal expressions in SMS messages in order to automatically fill in an electronic calendar. The extraction process is based on a library of finite-state transducers that identify temporal structures and annotate the components needed for the time normalization task. An initial evaluation puts recall at 0.659 and precision at 0.795.

This study examined how music major and non-music participants’ performances emotional expressions differed when exposed to background of varying tempi while completing a reading comprehension task. Two questions were addressed: (1) What effect does have on the performance majors task? (2) real-time expressed emotions self-report measures may predict scores between majors? A total 34 participan...

Numerous studies have investigated whether music can reliably convey emotions to listeners, and-if so-what musical parameters might carry this information. Far less attention has been devoted to the actual contents of the communicative process. The goal of this article is thus to consider what types of emotional content are possible to convey in music. I will argue that the content is mainly co...

This paper proposes a system for performance rendering of keyboard instruments. The goal is fully autonomous rendition of a performance with musical smoothness without losing any of the characteristics of the actual performer. The system is based on a method that systematizes combinations of constraints and thereby elucidates the rendering process of the performer’s performance by defining stoc...

This paper explores the concept of end-user programming languages in music composition, and introduces the Manhattan system, which integrates formulas with a grid-based style of music sequencer. Following the paradigm of spreadsheets, an established model of end-user programming, Manhattan is designed to bridge the gap between traditional music editing methods (such as MIDI sequencing and types...

There is a long history of attempts to explain why music is perceived as expressing emotion. The relationship between pitches serves as an important cue for conveying emotion in music. The musical interval referred to as the minor third is generally thought to convey sadness. We reveal that the minor third also occurs in the pitch contour of speech conveying sadness. Bisyllabic speech samples c...