Perceptual similarity underlies a number of important psychological properties of musical materials, including perceptual invariance under transformation, categorization, recognition, and the sense of familiarity. Mental processes involved in the perception of musical similarity may be an integral part of the functional logic of music composition and thus underly important aspects of musical ex...

After intensive, long-term musical training, the auditory system of a musician is specifically tuned to perceive musical sounds. We wished to find out whether a musician's auditory system also develops increased sensitivity to any sound of everyday life, experiencing them as noise. For this purpose, an online survey, including questionnaires on noise sensitivity, musical background, and listeni...

Music, like languages, is one of the key components of our culture, yet musical evolution is still poorly known. Numerous studies using computational methods derived from evolutionary biology have been successfully applied to varied subset of linguistic data. One of the major drawback regarding musical studies is the lack of suitable coded musical data that can be analysed using such evolutiona...

Distances on symbolic musical sequences are needed for a variety of applications, from music retrieval to automatic music generation. These musical sequences belong to a given corpus (or style) and it is obvious that a good distance on musical sequences should take this information into account; being able to define a distance ex nihilo which could be applicable to all music styles seems implau...

A change of music appreciation style from “listening to high fidelity (Hi-Fi) sounds” to “listening to preferred sounds” has emerged due to evolution of digital audio processing technology for the past years. Previously, many people enjoyed passive music appreciation: e.g., they buy CD and phonograph recordings or download mp3 audio files, set the disks or files to various media players, and hi...

abstract there is interchange of cultures and different kinds of ethnos music in the world between different cultures as acculturation. the economical, trade and political interchange, war and immigration has played a prominent role on acculturation; and obviously most of the time dominant culture has more influence on the other culture. one of the acculturation in the field of music devoted to...

Possibilities for a fine-grained and objective measurement of individual differences in musical abilities are limited at present. A common approach to determining musical competence therefore is to rely on information about the extent of individuals’ musical training. Yet relying on musicianship fails to identify musically untrained individuals with musical skill. To counteract this limitation,...

A burgeoning question in understanding literacy development is whether engaging in musical training directly transfers benefits to reading-related skills. Although, there is considerable data examining transfer effects of musical training on literacy skills, results from these studies have been largely inconclusive (Anvari et al. To further delineate the potential effects that musical training ...

This paper describes a MIR-based system for live musical performance between a human and a robot. This project involves combining human computer interface with musical robotics using query/retrieval architecture to create musical rhythmic phrases towards improvisation.

In this paper we address the problem of musical style classification, which has a number of applications like indexing in musical databases or automatic composition systems. Starting from MIDI files of real-world improvisations, we extract the melody track and cut it into overlapping segments of equal length. From these fragments, some numerical features are extracted as descriptors of style sa...