Emotional expression is an important property of music. Its emotional characteristics are thus especially natural for music indexing and recommendation. The Emotion in Music task addresses the task of automatic music emotion prediction and is held for the second year in 2014. As compared to previous year, we modified the task by offering a new feature development subtask, and releasing a new ev...

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the situation of Internet music piracy has become increasingly serious. In particular, the exchange mode of music downloading as a form of peer-to-peer electronic commerce is gaining fast acceptance in the user community. However, the exchange mode of music downloading is also particularly prone to being misused for music piracy. It is the...

The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical knowledge on how the interactive music techniques usually associated with computer game music could benefit the classical music composers and performers (and vice versa). We will focuse on techniques used in procedural music. Certain interactive computer game scores and sound installations represent this genre, as well as electronic real-time-...

Music classification is a key ingredient for electronic music distribution. Because of the lack of standards in music classification – or the lack of enforcement of existing standards – there is a huge amount of unclassified titles of music in the world. In this paper we propose a method of classification based on musical data mining techniques that uses co-occurrence and correlation analysis f...

It is shown how binary sequences can be associated with automatic composition of monophonic pieces. We are concerned with the composition of e-music from finite field structures. The information at the input may be either random or information from a black-and-white, grayscale or color picture. New ecompositions and music score are made available, including a new piece from the famous Lenna pic...

Automated music composition and algorithmic composition are based on the logic operation with music parameters being set according to the desired music style or emotion. The computer generative music can be integrated with other domains using proper mapping techniques, such as the intermedia arts with music technology. This paper mainly discusses the possibility of integrating both automatic co...

The evolutional course of music through centuries has shown an incremental use of chromatic variations by composers and performers for melodies’ and music sounds’ enrichment. This paper presents an integrated model, which contributes to the calculation of musical chromaticism. The model takes into account both horizontal (melody) and vertical chromaticism (harmony). The proposed perceptually ba...

Interactive music, in e.g. video games, often tends to be complex both in the creative and the technological part. Video games, that have any interactivity connected to the music, often have simplistic music and music technology. The sounding results vary greatly in quality, both in musical aesthetics and in interactive meaningfulness. One of the interactivemusic strategies available is horizon...