While the use of tangible interfaces in music is mostly restricted to exploration and manipulation of pre-composed music due to their limited amount of degrees of freedom, no system has yet been developed that allows explicit music composition through tangible interaction. SoundStrand is a tangible interface that supports an alternative paradigm to the process of music composition. This approac...

Meyer (1956) postulated that meaning in music is directly related to entropy–that high entropy (uncertainty) engenders greater subjective tension, which is correlated with more meaningful musical events. Current statistical models of music are often limited to music with a single melodic line, impeding wider investigation of Meyer’s hypothesis. I describe a recurrent neural network model which ...

OBJECTIVE To examine, among adolescents and emerging adults attending inner-city lower education, associations between risky music-listening behaviors (from MP3 players and in discotheques and at pop concerts) and more traditional health-risk behaviors: substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and hard drugs) and unsafe sexual intercourse. METHODS A total of 944 students in Dutch inner-c...

Brain–computer music interfacing (BCMI) is a growing field with a history of experimental applications derived from the cutting edge of BCI research as adapted to music making and performance. BCMI offers some unique possibilities over traditional music making, including applications for emotional music selection and emotionally driven music creation for individuals as communicative aids (eithe...