We describe a series of experiments in generating traditional musical harmony using Genetic Algorithms. We discuss some problems which are specific to the musical domain, and conclude that a GA with no notion of meta-level control of the reasoning process is unlikely to solve the harmonisation problem well.

This paper discusses some of the issues pertaining to the design of digital musical instruments that are to effectively fill the role of traditional instruments (i.e. those based on physical sound production mechanisms). The design and implementation of a musical instrument that addresses some of these issues, using scanned synthesis coupled to a “smart” physical system, is described.

We have developed a simple algebraic approach to music description and composition called Haskore In this framework musical objects consist of primitive notions such as notes and rests operations to transform musical objects such as transpose and tempo scaling and operations to combine musical objects to form more complex ones such as concurrent and sequential composition When these simple noti...

We notice already that this conception diverges from our own traditional musical notation system which represents a compact, readable time event + duration. The only reason for this is that generally the computer representation of time is made not with symbols but with digits.2 That, I believe, is why today’s composers should make themselves familiar with a “listing” representation of musical e...

BACKGROUND According to WHO estimation, the number of diabetic patients would reach about 591.9 million people in 2035. The tendency towards other kinds of treatment is increasing because of the high therapeutic expenditures and current medical complications. Positive results of massage in recent articles and the prominent role of dalk in Iranian traditional medicine led us to the present study...

the term massage comes from the french verb” masser” which means to rub. in greek, it comes from the word “masso” which means to rub with the hands. massage therapy has been very common among different nations since antiquity. in iranian traditional medicine, the word “dalk” has been used with the meaning of massage. among various functions known for giving massage that used for the athletes re...

objectives: lallemantia royleana (benth. in wall.) benth. (lamiaceae) is a medicinal plant used in iranian traditional and folklore medicine in the treatment of various nervous, hepatic, and renal diseases. in the present study, whole seeds of the herb were prepared and evaluated for hypolipidemic activities using an animal model. materials and methods: animals were fed normal diets or diets su...

evidence acquisition in this study, we examined a major resource of itm, the qanoon fi al-teb (the canon of medicine), by avicenna and the writings of prominent ancient scholars and physicians on the origins of catarrh. pubmed and google scholar were also searched for information on pnd and catarrh, and they were compared with the catarrh in itm. results physicians of itm believe that the main ...

background: camel milk is the closest to human mother’s milk. in the references on iranian traditional medicine, camel’s milk has been represented as the one having numerous nutritious and medical properties.objectives: in this article, the nutritive and therapeutic effects of camel’s milk have been examined from the view point of iranian traditional medicine.materials and methods: the present ...