A review of the academic discourses on gender and music on the one hand, and on electronic music composition on the other, might elicit the impression that the two fields carry mutually repellent charges.1 Despite the diversity of backgrounds and compositional interests among women electronic composers, their relative obscurity has made theorizing gender difference as a factor in electronic exp...

OBJECTIVES To test Music Marker Theory (MMT) positing that early adolescents' preferences for nonmainstream types of popular music indicate concurrent and later minor delinquency. METHODS MMT was tested in a 4-year longitudinal study (n = 309). RESULTS The results showed that early fans of different types of rock (eg, rock, heavy metal, gothic, punk), African American music (rhythm and blue...

Electronic music distribution, the internet success of MP3 and the actual activities concerning the semantic web of music require for convenient music information retrieval, resp. question-answering systems. In this paper we will give an overview about the concepts behind our “super-convenience” approach for MIR. By using natural language as input for human-oriented queries to large-scale music...

Context : Music performance is by nature non deterministic : it is well known that two interpretations of the same music score, where all the notes and their durations are specified, can differ significantly, in particular wrt temporal aspects. However, despite the temporal variability, several musicians playing together manage (in general) to make the music sound " as expected " , using variou...