This technical report presents a set of techniques for the production of music videos using computer graphics and animation. Their practical application is illustrated through examples developed for making the video “Dance to the Music / Play to the Motion”.

Music and places can both trigger emotional responses in people. This chapter presents a technical approach that exploits the congruence of emotions raised by music and places to identify music tracks that match a place of interest (POI). Such technique can be used in location-aware music recommendation services. For instance, a mobile city guide may play music related to the place visited by a...

Music composition and scientiic computing are usually considered separate and unrelated elds of intellectual activity. The thought of a musical piece being the result of involved calculations is not a familiar one; nor is that of using sound objects to present the results of large-scale scientiic computations. However, an unusual collaboration centered on the high-performance computing capabili...

Learning to play musical instruments can require a large investment of both time and money for individuals since instruments can be expensive to buy and tend to have relatively steep learning curves. This paper describes one student's senior honors project: a software application called OffKey which aims to improve accessibility and education in music by allowing individuals to use a computer k...

Research indicates that music therapists are likely to make use of computer software, designed to measure changes in the way a patient and therapist make use of music in music therapy sessions. A proof of concept study investigated whether music analysis algorithms (designed to retrieve information from commercial music recordings) can be adapted to meet the needs of music therapists. Computati...

We operate on multiple simultaneous modes of sensory input, including hearing (sound), sight (graphics) and touch (interaction). These senses mutually reinforce each other and are essential in deriving expression, meaning and aesthetic appreciation when creating and experiencing media, art and design [1,2]. Of our senses, sight and hearing are most readily describable (and perhaps therefore mos...

Research indicates that music therapists are likely to make use of computer software, designed to measure changes in the way a patient and therapist make use of music in music therapy sessions. A proof of concept study investigated whether music analysis algorithms (designed to retrieve information from commercial music recordings) can be adapted to meet the needs of music therapists. Computati...

New cloud computing ways open a new paradigm for music composition. Our music composing system is now distributed on the Web shaping what we call as Computer Music Cloud (CMC). This approach benefits from the technological advantages involved in distributed computing and the possibility of implementing specialized and independent music services which may in turn be part of multiple CMCs. The mu...

In the field of music information retrieval (MIR), great efforts have been directed towards the development of technologies and interfaces that allow users to access and explore music on an unprecedented scale. On the other hand, musicians and music teachers are often still skeptical about the benefits of computer-based methods in music education. In this paper, we report on an experiment condu...