In this paper, we discuss a design principle for the musical instruments that are useful for both novices and professional musicians and that facilitate musically rich expression. We believe that the versatility of conventional musical instruments causes difficulty in performance. By dynamically specializing a musical instrument for performing a specific (genre of) piece, the musical instrument...

A listener is thought to be able to organise musical notes into groups within musical streams/voices. A stream segment is a relatively short coherent sequence of tones that is separated horizontally from co-sounding streams and, vertically from neighbouring musical sequences. This paper presents a novel algorithm that discovers musical stream segments in symbolic musical data. The proposed algo...

Spectrogram is generated for musical notes, which is used to calculate the spectral, temporal and modulation features. To detect the musical instruments from polyphonic and monophonic musical notes , 23 features are analyzed . Out of 23 features 12 specific features are used to generate feature vector . Hidden Markov model (HMM) is used to calculate the conditional instrument existence probabil...

The purpose of our study was to determine whether active musical engagement alleviates decline in inhibitory control due to cognitive aging. Given that musical training in young adults has been shown to improve attentional performance, we can expect this benefit to persist for older adults as well. With the help of the stop-signal procedure, we measured response inhibition of young and older ad...

Research in music cognition domain has shown that non musician listeners have implicit knowledge about the Western tonal musical system. This knowledge, acquired by mere exposure to music in everyday life, influences perception of musical structures and allows developing expectations for future incoming events. Musical expectations play a role for musical expressivity and influence event proces...

Die Programmiersprache Processing ist darauf spezialisiert, einen möglichst einfachen Einstieg in die textuelle Programmierung zu bieten. Seit Beginn der Entwicklung 2001 am MIT Media Lab wird der Fokus hierbei auf die Erzeugung von Grafiken und Animationen gelegt. Processing erweitert hierzu Java um einfache Methoden zum Einbezug von Benutzereingaben durch Maus und Tastatur, wobei die Syntax u...

In this paper we describe an artistic response to a collection of natural history museum artefacts, developed as part of a residency with an arts organisation. Drawing on a critical literature in studies of material culture, the work incorporated data sonification, image audification, field recordings and created a number of instruments for exploring geological artefacts and meterological data ...

The new interfaces are changing the way we interact with computers. In the musical context, those new technologies open a wide range of possibilities in the creation of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Despite 10 years of research in NIME, it is hard to find artifacts that have been widely or convincingly adopted by musicians. In this paper, we discuss some NIME design challenges, ...

Play and playfulness compose an essential part of our lives as human beings. From childhood to adultness, playfulness is often associated with remarkable positive experiences related to fun, pleasure, intimate social activities, imagination, and creativity. Perhaps not surprisingly, playfulness has been recurrently used in NIME designs as a strategy to engage people, often non-expert, in short ...