Magazines and network news shows are abuzz reporting the newly discovered links between intellect and music. Dateline NBC entitled their coverage of the new music research "Perfect Pitch." "ZZZt!" "Crackle!" and "Zap!" said Newsweek, in efforts to describe the neural bridges being formed in an infant's brain when stimulated by a parent's voice. "Rat-a-tat-tat" declares Time magazine, describing...

MUSICIANS CAN CHOOSE BETWEEN VARIOUS “historicist” or “presentist” ways of performing works from the past. Music scholars who study early music sometimes are forced to make similar choices. If one thinks of corpus studies in music as an objective form of counting the “elements of music,” the question of what constitutes an “element” can involve similar historicist/presentist dilemmas. The artic...

In this paper we present an example of the use of the singing voice as a controller for digital music synthesis. The analysis of the voice with spectral processing techniques, derived from the Short-Time Fourier Transform, provides ways of determining a performer’s vocal intentions. We demonstrate a prototype, in which the extracted vocal features drive the synthesis of a plucked bass guitar. T...

As mobile-broadband networks continue to expand, VoLTE leverages telecom characteristics such as QoS and global reach to offer innovative communication services including evolved HD voice, music sharing within a call and video communication over IP networks.

Auracle is a “group instrument,” controlled by the voice, for real-time, interactive, distributed music making over the Internet. It is implemented in the Javaprogramming language using a combination of publicly available libraries (JSyn and TransJam) and custom-built components. This paper describes how the various pieces — the voice analysis, network communication, and sound synthesis — are i...

Search for bliss in each and every note of music and rhythm that you produce with your voice or instrument. Most importantly, remember that 'silence' is also a musical note of extreme enjoyment if treated correctly. Use rhythm to heighten the enjoyment of the notes as one would add depth and shadows to a painting. This advice from my father is the cornerstone of the music that I produce and pre...

Music signals are not solely characterized because of other mixed audio signals. Mixed audio signals contain music signals mixed with speech signals, voice and even background noise.Thus, mixed signals need to classify separately. Researchers have developed many algorithms to solve this problem keeping in mind with their characteristic features of music signals: by timbre, harmony, pitch, loudn...

Is it possible to represent the horizontal motions of the melodic strands of a contrapuntal composition, or the main ideas of a jazz standard as mathematical entities? In this work, we suggest a collection of novel models for the representation of music that are endowed with two main features. First, they originate from a topological and geometrical inspiration; second, their low dimensionality...

We present our work in the development of an interface for an actor/singer and its use in performing. Our work combines aspects of theatrical music with technology. Our interface has allowed the development of a new vocabulary for musical and theatrical expression and the possibility for merging classical and experimental music. It gave rise to a strong, strange, unpredictable, yet coherent, “c...