From a psychological viewpoint, the skills of musicians are many and diverse, and they are generally acquired in parallel. Here, we address the ability to recognize pitch intervals and structures of western tonal music. While many computer tools exist to test and develop those skills, they tend to focus on relatively low levels of expertise. Our goal was to develop and test at a more advanced l...

Contrary to the accepted belief, incontrovertible evidence indicates that all commands are issued in one hemisphere (major, command center, speech hemisphere), with majority of people (~80%) left hemispheric in laterality of their command center. Thus, those commands intended for moving the nondominant side of the body, including the eyes, are first transmitted to the opposit...

This practice-based research project will examine the link between the contemporary genre of Musique Concrète and the visual medium, through a portfolio of audiovisual pieces. By undertaking in-depth research into audiovisual principles demonstrated by Michel Chion and Walter Murch, I will first outline the various relationships that audio has with vision, and viceversa, drawing on ideas from t...

Apart from the traditional uses of computing in the fields of music and musicology, human-computer systems are emerging in reaction to this tradition, which is already effective, though still young. Whereas these unique systems operate in the usual fields of music's expansion, they cannot be systematically referred to known musicological categories. On the contrary, the experiments made possibl...

and summarize some main features that are pertinent in the present context.2 This tool interprets rationalism as a highly selective and ideological focus on: structures, laws, norms, principles, universality, objectivity, science, logic, formalization, and other items that fit this kind of rationality ideal. According to the model, rationalism in this sense detracts from: factuality, subjectivi...

The XX century is full of technological inventions that made the very idea of a listening device possible, from the early gramophones to the latest portable mini disk players. What evolutions can we predict for the listening devices of the future, and how these evolutions will change the way we access and listen to music ? In this chapter, we suggest that listening devices can be greatly enhanc...

What does it mean to say that one is listening to a piece of music, to a performance, or an artist? Initially, it may seem that there is little or no difference between these three questions. Upon closer reflection, though, there may be significant differences and these may be contingent on a variety of variables pertaining to musical content. This paper examines the case of listening to Bob Dy...