While Markov chain generators have been employed throughout the history of computer music as a tool for the creation of musical parameter values, input notations for Markov transition values are often cumbersome and opaque. Rejecting the transition matrix as an input notation, this paper offers a new language-independent, string-based input notation for incomplete, multiple-order, static Markov...

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an efficient tool for clustering and supervised classification of various objects, including text document, musical recordings, gene expressions, and images. In this paper, we are concerned with supervised classification of texture patterns. NMF is used for creating localized nonnegative feature vectors and low-dimensional nonnegative encoding vectors f...

How does music induce or evoke feeling states in listeners? A number of mechanisms have been proposed for how sounds induce emotions, including innate auditory responses, learned associations and mirror neuron processes. Inspired by ethology, it is suggested that the ethological concepts of signals, cues and indices offer additional analytic tools for better understanding induced affect. It is ...

The art of conducting has a long and well-established history, using physical gesture to convey musical intent and expressions. Conducting relies on visual communications to direct the ensemble as a coherent unit. The aim of this project is to capture and analyse the hand gestures of conducting in order to provide real-time, interactive multimodal feedback in a number of application contexts in...

Mobile devices represent a growing research field within NIME, and a growing area for commercial music software. They present unique design challenges and opportunities, which are yet to be fully explored and exploited. In this paper, we propose using a survey method combined with qualitative analysis to investigate the way in which people use mobiles musically. We subsequently present as an ar...

Traditional text input modalities, namely keyboards, are often not appropriate for use when standing in front of very large wall displays. Direct interaction techniques, such as handwriting, are better, but are not well suited to situations where users are not in close physical proximity to the display. We discuss the potential of mid-air interaction techniques for text input on very large wall...

The rhythmic interplay of accent, tempo, and musical mood is expressed in the bodily postures, gestures, expressions attuned responsiveness Salsa Dura, a genre salsa music from 1970s featuring improvisational solos. Dancers embrace feelings flows soloing musicians going off breaking free any predictable form structure. We inquire into how world-class dancers educators feel themselves moved by s...

In this article, the aim of the authors is to study the role of repetition in creating music and parallelism in Nimayee poems in the three collections of poems by Mehdi Akhavan Sales: Zamestan, Akhere Shahname and Az Avesta. Accordingly, the researchers have investigated the various manners of repetition in creating parallelism in the poems at three levels: phonological parallelism, lexical par...