Out of the scope of the usual positions of computing in the field of music and musicology, one notices the emergence of human-computer systems that do exist by breaking off. Though these singular systems take effect in the usual fields of expansion of music, they do not make any systematic reference to known musicological categories. On the contrary, they make possible experiments that open use...

Recent research on the analysis and synthesis of music performance has resulted in tools for the control of the expressive content in automatic music performance [1]. These results can be relevant for applications other than performance of music by a computer. In this work it is presented how the techniques for enhancing the expressive character in music performance can be used also in the desi...

Traditionally, music education focused on the assimilation of fundamental music concepts by individual students. In contrast, this paper outlines a study, which proposes to utilise students’ creative musical potential, collaboratively within the classroom. This work extends upon MOLE (Music Oriented Learning Environment, Truman, 2001; Badii & Truman, 2001), a computer-based environment designed...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for generating a melody from a generative probabilistic model by using Gibbs sampler. Furthermore, users can modify the composed music by interacting with the generation process. This method enables users to create their favorable melodies. Recently, music composition using computer software is gathering attentions. Many people want to compose their orig...

Computer-based analysis of tonal music has been an active area of research for over a decade. In particular, machine learning based methods have been applied to composing music and solving various problems in musicology such as classification, visualization, search and stylistic analysis. Building a model of a composer’s style is a challenging problem of great interest in the Music Information ...

Electroacoustic music analysis is a complex and heterogeneous discipline depending on one musical genre which includes a large typology of subgenres: from tape music to computer music, from concrete music, to mixed music, live electronic music, laptop music, etc. Even though there are personal approaches, which causes musical analysis to be a delicate and subjective discipline, some main trends...

Background music is often used to generate a specific atmosphere or to draw our attention to specific events. For example in movies or computer games it is often the accompanying music that conveys the emotional state of a scene and plays an important role for immersing the viewer or player into the virtual environment. In view of home-made videos, slide shows, and other consumer-generated visu...

The University of Victoria has a new centre for computer music and digital media called MISTIC (Music Intelligence and Sound Technology Interdisciplinary Centre). Research and educational activities pertaining to MISTIC are described.

Brain-computer music interfaces (BCMIs) may be used to modulate affective states, with applications in music therapy, composition, and entertainment. However, for such systems to work they need to be able to reliably detect their user’s current affective