The analysis of expressive performance, an important research topic in Computer Music, is almost exclusively devoted to the study of Western Classical piano music. Instruments like the acoustic guitar and styles like Bossa Nova and Samba have been little studied, despite their harmonic and rhythmic richness. This paper describes some experimental results obtained with the extraction of rhythmic...

Key finding algorithms, designed to determine the local key of segments in a piece of music, usually have difficulties at the locations where modulations occur. A specifically designed program to indicate modulations in a piece of music is presented in this paper. It was previously shown that the major and minor diatonic scale, as well as the diatonic chords, form convex sets when represented i...

BACKGROUND Acquired brain injury (ABI) can result in impairments in motor function, language, cognition, sensory processing and emotional disturbances. This may severely reduce a survivor's quality of life. Music therapy has been used in rehabilitation to stimulate brain functions involved in movement, cognition, speech, emotions and sensory perceptions. A systematic review is needed to gauge t...

INTRODUCTION Movement-based expertise relies on precise timing of movements and the capacity to predict the timing of events. Music performance involves discrete rhythmic actions that adhere to regular cycles of timed events, whereas many sports involve continuous movements that are not timed in a cyclical manner. It has been proposed that the precision of discrete movements relies on event tim...

In this chapter, at first the authors review the researches on music in Japan Society of Kansei Engineering. Music related researches are classified into 6 categories; Kansei evaluation methodology, music psychological research, physiological measurement, music theoretical research, Kansei music system and recommendation system. Then, the authors present their approaches for research Kansei on ...

This article introduces a genetic algorithm based system intended for automated generating of a realistic rhythmic (drum set) accompaniment. Present systems do not insist on the natural music criteria and realistic (human-like) result. They generate a rhythmic accompaniment regardless to the other instruments used. The fitness operators are mostly based on manual evaluation by user. The system ...

The visual arts and music interact with one another on both an individual scale (e.g. music-inspired synesthetes and artist-musician duos) and on a grand scale (e.g. the art movement Baroque, wherein abstract qualities such as “ornamentation” permeate both media). We develop a means to measure one of the many cross-modal similarities between music and visual art to reveal any direct influences ...

Rhythmic entrainment is an important component of emotion induction by music, but brain circuits recruited during spontaneous entrainment of attention by music and the influence of the subjective emotional feelings evoked by music remain still largely unresolved. In this study we used fMRI to test whether the metric structure of music entrains brain activity and how music pleasantness influence...