We describe a system for bidirectionally coupling the music and gameplay of digital games, so gameplay procedurally varies the music, and music procedurally varies the game. Our goal is to inject game music more closely into the core of gameplay, rather than having the music serve as an aesthetic layer on top; traditionally, music responds to game state, but not vice versa. Such a coupling has ...

Music is a universal human trait. The healing power of music has been acknowledged in almost all traditions of music. Music therapy is moving from a social-science model focusing on overall health and well-being towards a neuroscience model focusing on specific elements of music and its effect on sensorimotor, language and cognitive functions. The handful of evidence-based music therapy studies...

the world of music. Musicians use inexpensive personal computers instead of expensive recording studios to record, mix, and engineer music. Musicians use the Internet to distribute their music for free instead of spending large amounts of money creating CDs, hiring trucks, and shipping them to hundreds of record stores. As the cost to create and distribute recorded music has dropped, the amount...

background: today, endoscopic evaluation of digestive system is an important diagnostic approach in gastrointestinal diseases. as it is an invasive method, it causes fear and anxiety in patients. the current study was fulfilled to evaluate the effect of music therapy during endoscopy on the anxiety of patients by measuring blood pressure. methods: this is an experimental study of single blind c...

We synchronize background music with a video by changing the timing of music, an approach that minimizes the damage to music data. Starting from a MIDI file and video data, feature points are extracted from both sources, paired, and then synchronized using dynamic programming to time-scale the music. We also introduce the music graph, a directed graph that encapsulates connections between many ...

Music mood describes the inherent emotional meaning of a music clip. It is helpful in music understanding, music search and some music-related applications. In this paper, a hierarchical framework is presented to automate the task of mood detection from acoustic music data, by following some music psychological theories in western cultures. Three feature sets , intensity, timbre and rhythm, are...

Music is an integral part of the cultural heritage of all known human societies, with the capacity for music perception and production present in most people. Researchers generally agree that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the broader realization of music ability, with the degree of music aptitude varying, not only from individual to individual, but across various componen...

In this paper, we propose a music evaluation method. In this method, impressions of given music are represented by features by value, so that the music impressions are processed on computers. To obtain the music impressions, we experiment music impressions by using a semantic differential method. Then, we construct several models based on the experimental results with multiregression analysis. ...

The Music & Science Symposium in Boston on April 12, 2013 was designated to merge new findings in the fields of music neuroscience, music therapy, music cognition, music technology, and music medicine. Experts in these respective fields presented four talks as well as musical performances. Dr. Psyche Loui reported recent findings in music-related neuropsychological research, followed by Dr. Con...

The present study compared the effects of two different music interventions on changes in emotional states before and during running, and also explored effects of music interventions upon performance outcome. Volunteer participants (n = 65) who regularly listened to music when running registered online to participate in a three-stage study. Participants attempted to attain a personally importan...