Technologies can have harmful effects on users’ psychological health, on society, and on the environment. “Technology traps” arise when users and societies become stuck with technologies and the harmful consequences produced by these technologies. In this paper, the authors describe five technology traps: incompetence, self-miscontrol, misbehavior, techno-centrism, and environmental degradation...

This paper presents research from an ongoing study analyzing the co-creative practice of two undergraduate studio based music composers working with two peers from dance and video production. Whilst empirical research has explored joint creativity and group working processes within and across performing arts disciplines (including music), situations that bring undergraduate studio based compose...

Exploring music actively can be restricted for someone with cognitive, physical, or sensory impairments. They may face barriers to participation and diminished experiences between their musical expression and the music making means available to them. Technology can be used to bridge these gaps and focus on a person’s capability to create personal instruments that allow for active music making a...

The automatic recognition of music scores is a key process for the electronic treatment of music information. In this paper, we present the segmentation module of an OMR system. The proposed approach is based on the use of projection profiles for the location of elementary symbols that constitute the music notation. An extensive experimentation was made with the help of a tool developed to this...

Electronic Musical Instrument Design is an excellent vehicle for bringing students from multiple disciplines together to work on projects, and help bridge the perennial gap between the arts and the sciences. This paper describes how at Tufts University, a school with no music technology program, students from the engineering (electrical, mechanical, and computer), music, performing arts, and vi...

The use of computers in music education is investigated from a historical perspective that draws parallels to the use of computers in education generally. Drawing upon a study into the musical compositions of primary school children working in electronic environments this paper presents approaches to the use of ICT in music education that appear at odds with approaches in other education areas....

The Sir Jack Lyons Music Research Centre (mrc) opened in April 2004 as a new addition to the Department of Music at the University of York. This paper describes the concept and design of the Centre, its development and facilities. The mrc was created to provide high quality acoustic spaces for practice based research, technical research and postgraduate training in contemporary applications of ...

Automatic audio categorization has great potential for application in the maintenance and usage of large and constantly growing media databases; accordingly, much research has been done to demonstrate the feasibility of such methods. A popular topic is that of automatic genre classification, accomplished by training machine learning algorithms. However, " electronic " or " techno " music is oft...

Wouldn t it be nice if we had a tool that could offer people the right music for a specific time and place? For HORECA (hotel, restaurants and cafés) businesses, providing appropriate music is often not just nice, but essential. Typically this boils down to music that matches a certain situation on desired atmospheres, this will be defined as a musical context (MC). The developed tool, a music ...

The downloadable sheet music market has been constrained by reliance on proprietary binary formats. MusicXML is a new Internet-friendly format for representing sheet music and music notation. We introduce the basics of MusicXML design, using examples from current software to illustrate MusicXML's advantages over previous music interchange formats. We conclude by discussing the new types of musi...