The endless scale illusion, obtained by cyclically repeating a chromatic scale made up of Shepard tones, has been used in a variety of musical works. Music psychology and neuroscience has been interested in this particular psychoacoustic phenomenon mainly for studying the cognitive processes of pitch perception involved. In the present study, we investigated the emotional states induced by the ...

This article reports the first study of the glissando illusion, which was created and published as a sound demonstration by Deutsch [Deutsch, D. (1995). Musical illusions and paradoxes. La Jolla: Philomel Records (compact disc)]. To experience the illusion, each subject was seated in front of two stereophonically separated loudspeakers, with one to his left and the other to his right. A sound p...

Pitch perception for short-duration fundamental frequency (F0) glissandos was studied. In the first part, new measurements using the method of adjustment are reported. Stimuli were F0 glissandos centered at 220 Hz. The parameters under study were: F0 glissando extents (0, 0.8, 1.5, 3, 6, and 12 semitones, i.e., 0, 10.17, 18.74, 38.17, 76.63, and 155.56 Hz), F0 glissando durations (50, 100, 200,...

We need to find the most suitable prosody formalism for the task of machine learning. The target application is a prosody generative module for text-to-speech synthesis. This module will learn prosody marks (parameters or symbols) from large corpora. Formalism we are looking for should be general, perceptually relevant, restorable, automatically obtained, objective and learnable. Main formalism...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determination of superior laryngeal nerve (SLN) involvement in addition to recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) paralysis in patients with unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) relies on traditional, qualitative laryngeal electromyography (LEMG) examination. It is necessary to develop a quantitative measurement that reflects the degree of denervation of the cricothyroid (CT) m...

This paper hypothesizes that listeners who have been exposed to pitch continuum traditions of music, in which microtonal variations are a common occurrence, will have greater sensitivity to pitch changes as compared to listeners who have not. To test this hypothesis, two perceptual experiments are designed and performed in order to study the validity of the trill and glissando thresholds, repor...

To play the glissando opening Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, expert clarinettists combine unusual fingerings with even more unusual vocal tract configurations to achieve a nearly continuous rise in pitch. To study directly the player’s vocal tract when performing the glissando, we incorporated an acoustic impedance measurement head within a clarinet mouthpiece. The player’s vocal tract impedance ...

The 1957 musical composition Achorripsis by Iannis Xenakis was composed using four different probability distributions, applied over three different organizational domains, during the course of the 7 minute piece. While Xenakis did not have sonification in mind, his artistic choices in rendering mathematical formulations into musical events (time, space, timbre, glissando speed) provide useful ...