Online music services are increasing in popularity. They enable us to analyze people’s music listening behavior based on play logs. Although it is known that people listen to music based on topic (e.g., rock or jazz), we assume that when a user is addicted to an artist, s/he chooses the artist’s songs regardless of topic. Based on this assumption, in this paper, we propose a probabilistic model...

Psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) were used extensively in psychiatry in the past and their therapeutic potential is beginning to be re-examined today. Psychedelic psychotherapy typically involves a patient lying with their eyes-closed during peak drug effects, while listening to music and being supervised by trained psychotherapists. In this context, music is considere...

This paper describes the listening habits and musical enjoyment of postlingually deafened adults who use cochlear implants. Sixty-five implant recipients (35 females, 30 males) participated in a survey containing questions about musical background, prior involvement in music, and audiologic success with the implant in various listening circumstances. Responses were correlated with measures of c...

We present results of text data mining experiments for music retrieval, analyzing microblogs gathered from November 2011 to September 2012 to infer music listening patterns all around the world. We assess relationships between particular music preferences and spatial properties, such as month, weekday, and country, and the temporal stability of listening activities. The findings of our study wi...

This paper describes a public web service for active music listening, Songle, that enriches music listening experiences by using music-understanding technologies based on signal processing. Although various research-level interfaces and technologies have been developed, it has not been easy to get people to use them in everyday life. Songle serves as a showcase to demonstrate how people can ben...

For years, mostly the effects of music on cardiorespiratory exercise performance have been studied, but a few studies have examined the effect of music on anaerobic exercise. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of listening to music and its rhythm on anaerobic exercise: on power output, heart rate and the concentration of blood lactate. 28 male subjects were required to visit the...

Music making has a number of beneficial effects for motor tasks compared to passive music listening. Given that recent research suggests that high energy musical activities elevate positive affect more strongly than low energy musical activities, we here investigated a recent method that combined music making with systematically increasing physiological arousal by exercise machine workout. We c...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on depression and loneliness of elderly. methods & materials: research instruments consisted of the geriatric depression scale, loneliness scale and music therapy package, all administered on 20 men and 18 women through a pretest-posttest with control group. results: results indicated that music therapy decreases d...

The therapeutic use of music is frequently based on active interventions that directly involve the patient through a sonorous-music interaction with therapist. In contrast, approaches musical listening are characterized by relationship aimed at promoting an introspective work and processing one’s emotional experiences. Increasingly, scientific literature has shown how even to related patient’s ...