Music Derived from Other Sources

Music Derived from Other Sources

One imagines composed music as originating in the mind of an author. Indeed, I have for the last five decades been composing music in this fashion. However, for the last four decades I have also been repeatedly attracted to various methods of deriving music from sources both inside and outside the field. These sources have been linguistic, acoustic (field recordings), visual and mathematical (p...

BLUES from Music: BLind Underdetermined Extraction of Sources from Music

In this paper we propose to use an instantaneous ICA method (BLUES) to separate the instruments in a real music stereo recording. We combine two strong separation techniques to segregate instruments from a mixture: ICA and binary time-frequency masking. By combining the methods, we are able to make use of the fact that the sources are differently distributed in both space, time and frequency. O...

Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture and Other Sources

The C@merata task at MediaEval 2016: Natural Language Queries Derived from Exam Papers, Articles and Other Sources against Classical Music Scores in MusicXML

Cl@ssical Music Extraction of Relevant Aspects by Text Analysis (C@merata) is a shared evaluation held at MediaEval and this is the third time the task has run. The input is a natural language query (‘F# in the cello’) and the output is a passage in a MusicXML score which contains this note played on the instrument in question. There are 200 such questions each year and evaluation is via modifi...

Antihypertensive Peptides Derived From Food Sources

High blood pressure or hypertension is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases among human beings. A progressive rise in blood pressure can lead to haemorrhagic stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, cognitive decline and premature death. The past decade has seen a constant increase in prevalence of hypertension among populations because of changes in...