In the continuing investigation of the relationship between music and emotions it is recognized that MPEG-7 based MIR systems are the state-of-the-art. Also, it is known that non-temporal systems are diametrically unconducive to pitch analysis, an imperative for key and scalar analysis which determine emotions in music. Furthermore, even in a temporal MIR system one can only find the key if the...

Recording an album brings singers, producers, musicians, audio engineers, and many other professions together. We know from the press that a few “super”-producers work with many artists. But how does the large-scale social structure of the music industry look like? What is the social network behind the finest albums of all time? In this paper we studied the large-scale structure of music collab...

In Jeanne Bamberger's (1991) instructive case study on Jeff's learning, Bamberger observed and systematically ordered altering states of mental representations. In this study, Bamberger introduced and discussed a differentiated perspective on various forms of representation. In addressing the processing of music in the mind, mental representations can refer specifically to neural correlates of ...

Despite the increasing number of e-music downloads and the large use of mobile devices, the mobile music market is slowly taking off. Prices seem to be the main burden: compared to the wired environment, a song is twice or three times more expensive. Furthermore, mobile network transfer data rate causes the download time to be very long. In this paper we propose Bluemusic, a multi channel archi...

Modern digital music libraries contain textual, visual, and audio data describing music on various semantic levels. Exploiting the availability of different semantically interrelated representations for a piece of music, this paper presents a query-by-lyrics retrieval system that facilitates multimodal navigation in CD audio collections. In particular, we introduce an automated method to time a...

Beat induction (BI) is the cognitive skill that allows us to hear a regular pulse in music to which we can then synchronize. Perceiving this regularity in music allows us to dance and make music together. As such, it can be considered a fundamental musical trait that, arguably, played a decisive role in the origins of music. Furthermore, BI might be considered a spontaneously developing, domain...

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 ...

I nternet access, mobile devices, social networks, and automated multimedia technologies enable sophisticated information analysis and access. They have radically changed how people find entertainment, discover new interests, and generally express themselves online—seemingly without any physical or social barriers. Furthermore, thanks to the increasing affordability of sensing, storage, and sha...