This paper examines small ensemble interaction from the perspective of reflective practice. Current research on ensembles has increasingly focused on determining communicative properties of performers’ physical gestures. Interpretative coordination, although mentioned by Goodman (2002) and Williamon and Davidson (2002), has not been extensively explored. I argue that interpretative ensemble col...

This paper describes Roboser (http://www.roboser.com), an autonomous interactive music composition system. The core of the system comprises two components: a program for simulating large-scale neural networks, and an algorithmic composition system. Both components operate in real-time. Data from e.g. cameras, microphones and pressure sensors enter the simulated neural system, which is also used...

MOOD is a C++-based programming system for algorithmic and interactive music generation. MOOD uses multiple concurrent processes to generate di erent aspects of musical structure (pitches, rhythm, dynamic variation, etc.). It is composed of three layers. Layer one supplies deadline-scheduled lightweight processes and real-time event generation. Layer two allows processes to be collected into hi...

When we listen to music, we can mentally control howwe perceive the beat. This ability is thought to be subserved by sensorimotor imagery, having top-down effects on attentional-allocation and perception. Here, we examine whether imagined “up and down” gestures can support an internal generation of metrical accent in rhythmic sequences. We also examine how this type of motor imagery interacts w...

This paper examines the role of mental imagery in music performance. Self-reports by musicians, and various other sources of anecdotal evidence, suggest that covert auditory, motor, and/or visual imagery facilitate multiple aspects of music performance. The cognitive and motor mechanisms that underlie such imagery include working memory, action simulation, and internal models. Together these me...

Byzantine chants constitute a form of monophonic vocal music characterized by lengthy phrases and by musical scales with intervals smaller than the western music semitones. Byzantine churches have extremely long Reverberation Time and their acoustics is dominated by the contributions of the diffuse sound field. Thus, the sound character of Byzantine chanting is closely linked to the acoustic re...

Musical obsessions and hallucinations are disturbing experiences of repeating internal music. Antipsychotic medication can sometimes reduce these symptoms but can also trigger or augment them. We report the case of a female patient with schizophrenia with drug-resistant obsessive musical hallucinations. The patient volunteered to participate in a 9-month pilot study to follow the development of...

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...

Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s theory employed a tree in a representation of internal structure of music. In order for us to claim that such a tree is a consistent and stable representation, we argue that the difference of trees should correctly reflect our coginitive similarity of music. We report our experimental result concerning the comparison of similarity among variations on Ah vous dirai-je, m...

A new general methodology for Musical Pattern Discovery is proposed, which tries to mimic the flow of cognitive and sub-cognitive inferences that are processed when hearing a piece of music. A brief survey shows the necessity to handle such perceptual heuristics and to specify perceptual constraints on discoverable structures. For instance, successive notes between patterns should verify a spec...