We present an information-theoretic approach to the measurement of users’ music listening behaviour and selection of music features. Existing ethnographic studies of music use have guided the design of music retrieval systems however are typically qualitative and exploratory in nature. We introduce the SPUD dataset, comprising 10, 000 handmade playlists, with user and audio stream metadata. Wit...

Current music recommender systems only use basic information for recommending music to its listeners. These usually include artist, album, genre, tempo and other song information. Online recommender systems would include ratings and annotation tags by other people as well. We propose a recommender system that recommends music depending on how the listener wants to feel while listening to the mu...

1.1. Evaluation of music dynamics The background for this paper is previous performed experiments on subjective evaluation of listening responses to live music with special focus on loudness (”musical strength”) and music dynamics. The question is weather or not it is possible to subjectively ”integrate” and pronounce some reliable and meaningful quantitative measure of loudness after having li...

We know from animal studies that a stimulating and enriched environment can enhance recovery after stroke, but little is known about the effects of an enriched sound environment on recovery from neural damage in humans. In humans, music listening activates a wide-spread bilateral network of brain regions related to attention, semantic processing, memory, motor functions, and emotional processin...

Current research has shown that although adult cochlear implant (CI) users generally find music to be less enjoyable following implantation, training may help some recipients to improve their music perception. This study developed and administered a questionnaire (The University of Canterbury Music Listening Questionnaire: UCMLQ), to collect information which could then be used to develop such ...

One of the most important roles that music serves in human society is the promotion of social relationships and group cohesion. In general, emotional experiences tend to be amplified in group settings through processes of social feedback. However, previous research has established that listening to sad music can intensify negative emotions in people with tendencies to rumination and depression....

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether listening to relaxing music would help reduce mental fatigue and to maintain performance after a continuous performance task. The experiment involved two fatigue evaluation phases carried out before and after a fatigue inducing phase. A 1-hour AX-continuous performance test was used to induce mental fatigue in the fatigue-inducing phase, and ...

The study of the brain bases for normal musical listening has advanced greatly in the last 30 years. The evidence from basic and clinical neuroscience suggests that listening to music involves many cognitive components with distinct brain substrates. Using patient cases reported in the literature, we develop an approach for understanding disordered musical listening that is based on the systema...