Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source the development of theories prosody and rhythm stress-based languages, but been explored less from rhythmic perspective realm tone languages. African languages especially under-studied terms text-setting, likely large part due to ill-understood status metrical structure prosodic prominence asymmetries many these Here, we explore ho...

The diverse forms and functions of human music place obstacles in the way of an evolutionary reconstruction of its origins. In the absence of any obvious homologues of human music among our closest primate relatives, theorizing about its origins, in order to make progress, needs constraints from the nature of music, the capacities it engages, and the contexts in which it occurs. Here we propose...

Human capacity for entraining movement to external rhythms-i.e., beat keeping-is ubiquitous, but its evolutionary history and neural underpinnings remain a mystery. Recent findings of entrainment to simple and complex rhythms in non-human animals pave the way for a novel comparative approach to assess the origins and mechanisms of rhythmic behavior. The most reliable non-human beat keeper to da...

Musical genres are categorical descriptions that are used to describe music. They are commonly used to structure the increasing amounts of music available in digital form on the Web and are important for music information retrieval. Genre categorization for audio has traditionally been performed manually. A particular musical genre is characterized by statistical properties related to the instr...

Functional neuroimaging has recently offered the means to map the workings of the human auditory system during music processing. I propose a cognitive theoretical account of rhythmic memory brain processing on the basis of current functional neuroimaging data on music perception in the light of my own work on the brain coding of body perception. This framework allows unifying experimental evide...

This paper presents a system which can perform automatic beat-tracking in real-time from performed polyphonic music in symbolic format. No voice information is needed. The music can be as well a performance recording containing tempo changes and irregularities, or a score transcription. The needed input format is a midi-like sequence containing at least the onset, duration, and pitch features. ...

This paper addresses a question about music cognition: how do we derive polymetric structures. A preference rule system is presented which is implemented into a drum computer. The preference rule system allows inferring local polymetric structures, like two-over-three and three-over-two. By analyzing the micro-timing of West African percussion music a timing pattern consisting of six pulses was...

Tok! is a collaborative acoustic instrument application for iOS devices aimed at real time percussive music making in a colocated setup. It utilizes the mobility of hand-held devices and transforms them into drumsticks to tap on flat surfaces and produce acoustic music. Tok! is also networked and consists of a shared interactive music score to which the players tap their phones, creating a perc...

Listening to music makes us to move in various ways. The characteristics of these movements can be affected by several aspects, such as individual factors, musical features, or the emotional content of the music. In a study in which we presented 60 individuals with 30 musical stimuli representing different genres of popular music and recorded their movement with an optical motion capture system...