The hypothesis was tested that musical activities may contribute to the prevention of alexithymia. We tested whether musical creative achievement and musical practice are associated with lower alexithymia. 8000 Swedish twins aged 27-54 were studied. Alexithymia was assessed using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. Musical achievement was rated on a 7-graded scale. Participants estimated number o...

The study of consumer tastes and preferences of individuals towards cultural goods including music can determine the type and structure of social relations and interaction between people in different social strata.Contrary to what is commonly believed to joy and entertainment, instrumental music is not the thing that can reflect the meaning of life in a community or group. This study aims to st...

This paper describes category level recognition of unknown musical instruments i e musical instruments which are not contained in training data based on an acoustic feature based musical instrument hierarchy The problem of how the unknown musical instruments should be dealt with is essential in musical instrument recognition However this problem has not been dealt with in previous studies In th...

“Music can be used as a communicable language”. Musical symbols and musical notes have been used as codes and ciphers from early days. The art of encrypting messages using music is termed as Musical cryptography and it uses predefined set of notes and set of rules for composing musical pieces which in turn are musical cryptograms. Traditional algorithms applied to musical cryptography used simp...

There have been many NIME papers over the years on augmented or actuated instruments [2][10][19][22]. Many of these papers have focused on the technical description of how these instruments have been produced, or as in the case of Machover’s ‘Hyperinstruments’ [19], on producing instruments over which performers have ‘absolute control’ and emphasise ‘learnability. perfectibility and repeatabili...

New Interfaces for Musical Expression must speak to the nature of ‘instrument’, that is, it must always be understood that the interface binds to a complex musical phenomenon. This paper explores the nature of engagement, the point of performance that occurs when a human being engages with a computer based instrument. It asks questions about the nature of the instrument in computer music and of...

While many new interfaces for musical expression have been presented in the past, methods to evaluate these interfaces are rare. This paper presents a method and a study comparing the potential for musical expression of different string-instrument based musical interfaces. Cues for musical expression are defined based on results of research in musical expression and on methods for musical educa...

Bei Neurostimulationssitzungen entstehen EEG-Aufnahmen, die nicht selten eine Aufzeichnungsdauer von mehr als einer Stunde erreichen können. Die nachträgliche Auswertung solch großer Datenmengen mit herkömmlicher EEG-Software gestaltet sich meist aufwendig. Insbesondere die Navigation durch die Signaldarstellung mit Maus und Tastatur scheint langsam und ineffektiv. In diesem Beitrag wird eine A...

The dearth of females playing so-called masculine instruments has not gone unnoticed, but frameworks for investigating females’ participation have been driven almost entirely by a feminist agenda. A construct for studying gendered participation in music, employing a post feminist perspective is presented. As one of the major areas in which female participation does not match their male counterp...

Previous studies suggest that musical training in children can positively affect various aspects of development. However, it remains unknown as to how early in development musical experience can have an effect, the nature of any such effects, and whether different types of music experience affect development differently. We found that random assignment to 6 months of active participatory musica...