INTERTEXTUAL ROUTES OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: ASSOCIATIVE MUSIC TEXT ISSUE

Special issue on evolutionary music

Computing technology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in all aspects of music. Smart sound design and synthetic music pervades a wide range of creative practices, from avant-garde contemporary music to entertainment media for mass consumption. Computer technologies have a profound impact on how music is studied, composed, performed, listened to, stored and distributed. For instance, software...

Personalized Text-Based Music Retrieval

We consider the problem of personalized text-based music retrieval where users’ history of preferences are taken into account in addition to their issued textual queries. Current retrieval methods mostly rely on songs meta-data. This limits the query vocabulary. Moreover, it is very costly to gather this information in large collections of music. Alternatively, we use music annotations retrieve...

Language, Music, and Brain

Introduction: Over the last centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain is learning the language. By 1980, the study of brain-language relationships was based on the study of human brain damage. But since 1980, neuroscience methods have greatly improved. There is controversy about where music, composition, or the perception of language and music are in the brain, or wheth...

Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption

Music therapy and sleep cycle

Sleep is a basic behavior in humans. There are some research reports on the cyclical patterns of different types of sleep and their relationship to breathing, heart rate, brain waves, and other physical function. More recently, scientific research has begun to show how music therapy interacts with relaxation and sleep cycle. This research is focusing on the following hypotheses: 1. Music could ...