Wouldn t it be nice if we had a tool that could offer people the right music for a specific time and place? For HORECA (hotel, restaurants and cafés) businesses, providing appropriate music is often not just nice, but essential. Typically this boils down to music that matches a certain situation on desired atmospheres, this will be defined as a musical context (MC). The developed tool, a music ...

With a standard compact disc (CD) audio player, the only possibility for the user is to listen to the recorded track, passively: the interaction is limited to changing the global volume or the track. Imagine now that the listener can turn into a musician, playing with the sound sources present in the stereo mix, changing their respective volumes and locations in space. For example, a given inst...

This paper describes how industrial design students made everyday things interactive with Ardiuno in a programming course. It also describes 6 innovative projects made by the students; (1) A beat machine inspired by Rubics Cube, (2) an interactive and moving lamp that scans the area for faces, recognizes your smile, take a picture of it, and posts it on Twitter, (3) a self-typing typewriter fro...

This article explores some music instruments generic properties such as the diversity, the variability or the reproducibility of their musical output, the linearity or non-linearity of their behavior, and tries to figure out how these aspects can bias the relation between the instrument and its player, and how they may relate to more commonly studied and (ab)used concepts such as expressivity o...

In a typical musical ensemble performance, each musician must play at the same speed, at the same location in the piece. When this happens, we say they are synchronized. Currently, musical accompaniment systems such as [1] [2] achieve good synchronization with human soloists. However, in larger ensembles with many players playing different parts, synchronization becomes difficult. Several exist...

The works produced within the music industry arepresented to their listeners on a digital platform,taking advantage of technology. problems thepast, such as pirated cassettes and CDs, have left theirplace problem copyright protection digitalplatforms today. Block chain is one mostreliable preferred technologies in recent timesregarding data integrity security. In thisstudy, blockzincir-based wa...

We present a new approach to recommend suitable tracks from a collection of songs to the user. The goal of the system is to recommend songs that are favored by the user, are fresh to the user’s ear, and fit the user’s listening pattern. We use “Forgetting Curve” to assess freshness of a song and evaluate “favoredness” using user log. We analyze user’s listening pattern to estimate the level of ...

Background: Positive effects of music on the state of mood as well as on anxiety, pain and physiological measures were described for the postoperative setting on the ICU. Objectives: To examine the influence of a music intervention in the early postoperative period on patients undergoing open heart surgery. Methods: We examined 126 patients undergoing open cardiac surgery, randomly assigned to ...

Theories of entrainment assume that spontaneous entrainment emerges from dynamic laws that operate via mediators on interactions, whereby entrainment is facilitated if certain conditions are fulfilled. In this study, we show that mediators can be built that affect the entrainment of human locomotion to music. More specifically, we built D-Jogger, a music player that functions as a mediator betw...