This paper presents on-going research into the creation of performance and compositional tools using a BrainComputer Music Interface (BCMI). The research demonstrates the suitability of the SSVEP (Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials) technique of generating brainwave information to cognitively control music. Furthermore, it considers the practical implications of using brainwaves in music, an...

This paper describes a speech recognition method for mixed sound, consisting of speech and music, that removes the music only based on vector quantization (VQ) and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). For isolated word recognition using the clean speech model, an improvement of about 15% was obtained compared with the case of not removing music. Furthermore, a high recognition rate of about...

Music is a complex human phenomenon, the perception of which involves a variety of neural processes. Data from neuroimaging, neurophysiologic, and lesion-based studies provide valuable evidence of the neural substrates that underlie the perception of musical aspects such as pitch, melody, rhythm, timbre, and musical syntax. Furthermore, these studies shed light on the relationship between music...

Microblogs are a steadily growing, valuable, albeit noisy, source of information on interests, preferences, and activities. As music plays an important role in many human lives we aim to leverage microblogs for music listening-related information. Based on this information we present approaches to estimate artist similarity, popularity, and local trends, as well as approaches to cluster artists...

This chapter explores the relationship between music perception as it is studied in the laboratory and as it occurs in the real world. We first examine general principles by which listeners group musical tones into perceptual configurations, and how these principles are implemented in music composition and performance. We then show that, for certain types of configuration, the music as it is pe...

previously studies have shown that music can be used to increase the time to engage in physical activity but music's role in controlling the intensity of pa has been studied less. the sensorimotor synchronization (sms), the coordination of rhythmic movement with rhythmic sensory stimuli method, seems to have enough potential and can be applied instead of the previous method for ordinary pe...