Background in musical improvisation and creativity. What makes musical improvisation creative? And what exactly is it that justifies one improviser being described as more creative than another? For a clearer understanding, it is a practical necessity to use an approach such as those of Berliner (1994) and Gibbs (2010), who make the study of improvisational creativity more tangible by identifyi...

at present, arising of blank verse is assumed as a turning point in arabic language and literature. by birth of poetic modern phenomenon, verse total meaning and especially its poetic music were transformed. as a result, in the course of the given process, musical structure of contemporary arabic verse exited from its traditional and ancient texture and reached to a completely different archite...

The virtual musical instrument is an interface that allows users to simulate a musical instrument by printing a template on a sheet of paper, placing it in view of the webcam of their laptop, and running the console application. The user then ’plays’ the virtual instrument as if it were a real one, and appropriate music is generated. This is achieved by calibration of the template, detecting th...

Higher rates of Absolute Pitch among East Asian musicians has garnered considerable research interest for it position to uncover relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors such as musical training and tone-language knowledge. In three studies with non-musicians (n=134) on learning Relative Pitch (the relation between tones), we establish similar ethnicity effects. East Asians c...

The carillon is one of the few instruments that elicits sophisticated haptic interaction from amateur and professional players alike. Like the piano keyboard, the velocity of a player’s impact on each carillon key, or baton, affects the quality of the resultant tone; unlike the piano, each carillon baton returns a different force-feedback. Force-feedback varies widely from one baton to the next...

Gemeinsames Musizieren erfordert einen hohen Grad an gleichzeitiger Interaktion. Oft müssen zum Beispiel mehrere Parameter zeitkritisch zu einander verändert werden. Herkömmliche Eingabegeräte, wie Maus und Tastatur, bieten hierbei nur unzureichende Möglichkeiten. Wollen mehrere Nutzer zusammenarbeiten, werden diese Einschränkungen noch deutlicher. Eine Multitouch-Oberfläche bietet eine Alterna...

Increasing growth and popularity of multimedia resources available on the Web brought the need to provide new, more advanced tools needed for research. However, searching through multimedia data is highly non-trivial task that requires content-based indexing of the data. My research will focus on automatic extraction of information about the sound timbre, and indexing sound data with informatio...