Introduction: Music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. An important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. Methods: We used EEG recording in nine sub...

Is there a distinction between New Interfaces for Musical Expression and New Interfaces for Controlling Sound? This article begins with a brief overview of expression in musical performance, and examines some of the characteristics of effective “expressive” computer music instruments. It becomes apparent that sophisticated musical expression requires not only a good control interface but also v...

Two modest-sized symbolic corpora of post-tonal and post-metric keyboard music have been constructed, one algorithmic, the other improvised. Deep learning models of each have been trained and largely optimised. Our purpose is to obtain a model with sufficient generalisation capacity that in response to a small quantity of separate fresh input seed material, it can generate outputs that are dist...

SkipStep is a novel touchscreen application that allows users to write, perform, and improvise music on multiple virtual instruments via MIDI. It is a looping-based instrument that incorporates step sequencer and keyboard inspired interfaces with generative music capabilities. Additionally, SkipStep allows for collaborative performance over Wi-Fi, allowing users to either send musical material ...

Speaking about amateur art circles, it should be noted that these are mainly musical circles solve various problems: they develop artistic creativity, abilities, form aesthetic tastes, teach you to express your feelings through music, dance and facial expressions, help identify the most gifted in field of children, children rationally use their free time. In article, author determined content, ...

at present, arising of blank verse is assumed as a turning point in arabic language and literature. by birth of poetic modern phenomenon, verse total meaning and especially its poetic music were transformed. as a result, in the course of the given process, musical structure of contemporary arabic verse exited from its traditional and ancient texture and reached to a completely different archite...

La guerra de Successió va ser un conflicte bèl·lic però també propagandístic. Entre escriptura i oralitat, una les formes propagació més efectives missatges polítics van els contrafacta, textos dissenyats per cantar-se amb melodies preexistents. Aquests circulaven en forma fulls volanders o petits plecs, aquests objectes físics només s’hi reproduïen textos; tonades què es cantaven, àmpliament c...

The traditional weddings of the Meadow Maris, known as süàn is a multiphase ritualistic complex consisting various ritual actions extended in time and carried out definite succession events. Many aspects Mari spiritual culture accumulated them: sacred-magical elements, symbolism clothes, food, poetry, music, dance, well semantics ancient pagan thinking. present article examines folk music genre...