This paper introduces temporal type constructors to computer music programming, and shows how they make languages more expressive. Music programming involves timestructured data types such as audio, MIDI, control signals, and streams of spectral frames. Each computer music language supplies some fixed set of these. Temporal type constructors are instead a way for the programmer to invent these ...

Traditional compositional techniques and many computer-assisted composition systems have been focused on the production of linear musical products. In an age where non-linear media are increasingly prominent there is a need to reassess these technologies in the light of new opportunities for making music with non-linear outcomes. This paper examines the current state of music making for non-lin...

The field of computer music is evolving in tandem with advances in computer science. Our research is interested in how the developing field of unconventional computation may provide new pathways for music and music technologies. In this paper we present the development of a system for harnessing the biological computing substrate Physarum Polycephalum for sonification. Physarum Polycephalum is ...

There are few ways in which persons, who do not have the use of their hands or arms, are able make music or control complex computer systems. Music as an expressive output is key to the full development of the human mind. Human Instruments is dedicated to the development and production of accessible musical instruments playable at a professional level, as well as computer control interfaces. We...

I describe here a real-time vision-based gesture recognition system used in interactive computer music performances. The performer moves his hands in a video-camera capture area, the camera sends the signal to a video digitizer card plugged into a computer. By processing the reconstructed images of the performer’s hands in movement the computer detects x-y positions, shape (posture) and angle o...

The application of computers in music has focused almost exclusively on problems of sound synthesis. The application of computers in the process of music composition, ie. the generation of sound structures, remains largely unexplored. This thesis describes a computer software system designed to usefully aid composers in the process of music composition by automating part of the composition proc...

Introduction MELDEX—the name given to our digital music library project—is a Web-based system that supports searching through text and sung queries, and browsing through automatically compiled lists of metadata, such as titles. Sample collections include 1,000 popular tunes derived from sheet music using Optical Music Recognition (OMR) software, 10,000 folksongs donated by two other computer mu...

In recent years Computer Network-Music has increasingly captured the attention of the Computer Music Community. With the advent of Internet communication, geographical displacement amongst the participants of a computer mediated music performance achieved world wide extension. However, when established over long distance networks, this form of musical communication has a fundamental problem: ne...

New computer applications, such as the infamous “Napster” system enable the sharing of music over the Internet, with limited communication around this sharing of music. This paper discusses the use and opportunities for these music sharing technologies using interviews with users of both conventional and new music sharing technologies. The data show that music sharing is a practice that is rich...