BACKGROUND Use of electronic media, i.e. mobile phones, computers, television, game consoles or listening to music, is very common, especially amongst adolescents. There is currently a debate about whether frequent use of these media might have adverse effects on health, especially on headaches, which are among the most-reported health complaints in adolescents. The aim of the present study was...

This album combines garage punk with synth and electronic sounds. Most of the songs have an upbeat yet slightly off tune that is pleasant to listen to but is slightly unsettling as it is not the type of beat and notes that you typically hear in most music on the radio. The faster songs are definitely the best songs, as the fast beat tends to air best with garage and electronic sounds. The songs...

The issue of generating automatically sequences of music titles that satisfy arbitrary criteria such as user preferences has gained interest recently, because of the numerous applications in the field of Electronic Music Distribution. All the approaches proposed so far suffer from two main drawbacks: reduced expressiveness and incapacity to handle large music catalogues. We present in this pape...

It is surely not difficult for anyone with experience in the subject known as Music Theory to realize that there is a very definite and precise relationship between music and mathematics. This paper describes the SoriSu, a new electronic musical instrument based on Sudoku puzzles, which probe the expressive possibilities of mathematical concepts in music. The concept proposes a new way of mappi...

The relationship of computers to music is long and rich, dating back to the earliest years of electronic music experimentation and Musique concrete. Working at Bell Labs in 1957, Max Matthews wrote MUSIC, the first software application for creating sound on a computer, and computer technology has been integral to modern composition ever since. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the inventio...

The use of answer set programming has been applied in a variety of areas and has attracted more and more researchers from different disciplines, one of them is music. Music is an area that has tested the use of answer set solvers for melodic, rhythmic and harmonic compositions with different voices, or even to propose electronic/trance music compositions with more than three instruments. Likewi...

One important way to teach Computer Science (or almost any discipline) is by getting students involved in projects that interest them. One such area of projects involves the use of computers with music. This paper presents some experiences I have had advising music related computer projects. These experiences show that students are very enthusiastic about music projects, enjoy working hard at t...

Sensing pianist movements is useful for various applications fields such as electronic music, music performance research, musician medicine, and piano pedagogy. This paper contributes an unobtrusive, markerless method to capture pianist movements based on depth sensing. The method was realized using the Kinect depth camera and evaluated in comparison with 2D marker tracking.

Music title identification is a key ingredient of contentbased electronic music distribution. Because of the lack of standards in music identification – or the lack of enforcement of existing standards – there is a huge amount of unidentified music files in the world. We propose here an identification mechanism that exploits the information possibly contained in the file name itself. We study l...