Recently, due to the widespread use of computers, text-based communication methods, such as e-mail and chat, have attracted a great deal of attention. If pianists can apply their musical expressions to the text input, they can input texts with their own emotion richly. Therefore, the goal of our study is to construct TEMPEST (TExt input and Musical PErforming SysTem) that is a text input system...

In a recent cross-cultural study with participants from an autochthonous African population (Mafa) and Western participants, it was shown that the recognition of several emotional expressions (happy, sad, fearful) in music are likely to be music universals [1]. The Mafa listeners (who were naïve to the Western music) were quite successful at recognizing the emotional expressions in the Western ...

Recognizing a musical excerpt without necessarily retrieving its title typically reflects the existence of a memory system dedicated to the retrieval of musical knowledge. The functional distinction between musical and verbal semantic memory has seldom been investigated. In this fMRI study, we directly compared the musical and verbal memory of 20 nonmusicians, using a congruence task involving ...

We organised an elven day intense course in materiality for musical expressions to explore underlying principles of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) in higher education. We grounded the course in different aspects of materiality and gathered interdisciplinary student teams from three Nordic universities. Electronic music instrument makers participated in providing the course. In ele...

This paper presents a description of our submission to the C@merata task in MediaEval 2014. The system answers the natural language queries over the musical scores. The approach is based upon two main steps: identifying the musical entities and relations present in the query, and retrieving the relevant music passages containing those entities from the associated MusicXML file. We submitted two...

A machine system is designed to analyze the musical aspects during the live performance, allowing an interactive and dynamic flow of new expressions and also opening new compositional forms and multimodal methods. The focus of this approach is to measure the expressiveness from distinct characters during the performance of the musical piece while decisions are made by the machine. This multimod...

The principles of atonal pitch organization are still in large part unknown. The reason why they are unknown is also unknown. The present paper addresses this methodological problem. The paper first examines roles of metaphor in the theory of tonal accentual patterns and examines the way we handle music-theoretical issues with metaphor. Metaphorical expressions are used to classify and designat...

In this paper, we discuss the use of the clothesline as a metaphor for designing a musical interface called Airer Choir. This interactive installation is based on the function of an ordinary object that is not a traditional instrument, and hanging articles of clothing is literally the gesture to use the interface. Based on this metaphor, a musical interface with high transparency was designed. ...

Introduction In this technical sketch we introduce a new interaction paradigm: using facial gestures and expressions to control musical sound. The mouthesizer, a prototype of this general concept, consists of a miniature head mounted camera which acquires video input from the region of the mouth, extracts the mouth shape using a simple computer vision algorithm, and converts shape parameters to...

In this paper we describe work in progress on generative music generation on multi-touch devices. Our goal is to create a musical application framework for multiple casual users that use state of the art multitouch devices. We choose the metaphor of ants moving on a hexagonal grid to interact with a pitch pattern. The set of devices used includes a custom built multitouch table and a number of ...