Background music is often used to generate a specific atmosphere or to draw our attention to specific events. For example in movies or computer games it is often the accompanying music that conveys the emotional state of a scene and plays an important role for immersing the viewer or player into the virtual environment. In view of home-made videos, slide shows, and other consumer-generated visu...

This paper describes a system enabling a human to perform music with a robot in real-time, in the context of North Indian classical music. We modify a traditional acoustic sitar into a hyperinstrument in order to capture performance gestures for musical analysis. A custom built four-armed robotic Indian drummer was built using a microchip, solenoids, aluminum and folk frame drums. Algorithms wr...

We present a system for collaborative musical creation on mobile wireless networks. The work extends on simple peer-to-peer file sharing systems towards ad-hoc mobility, streaming, and collaborative creation. It extends music listening from a passive act to a proactive, participative activity. The system consists of a network based interactive music engine and a mobile rendering player. It serv...

In this Late-breaking/Demo submission, we present a completely revamped version of the RAMA interactive artist network visualization prototype. This version keeps most features from previous versions, and additionally to an improved graphical design 1 and an improved compatibility with diverse Operating Systems and web browsers, it adds a number of features aiming at a better music discovery ex...

In this paper, we compare timbre features of various cello performers playing the same instrument in solo cello recordings. Using an automatic feature extraction framework, we investigate the differences in sound quality of the players. The motivation for this study comes from the fact that the performer’s influence on acoustical characteristics is rarely considered when analysing audio recordi...

The purpose of the article is to explore little-known areas performing work famous Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko — his accompanist and ensemble activities. Research methodology. A system analysis, which combined analytical, culturological, observational methods, was applied. Scientific novelty. research first experience a special analysis Lysenko’s practice as an player in domestic musicolo...