Psychoacoustic experimentation as a prelude to musical composition

Timbre as a psychoacoustic parameter for harmonic Analysis and Composition

Timbre can affect our subjective experience of musical dissonance and harmonic progression. To this end, we have developed a set of algorithms to measure roughness (sensory dissonance), and pitch correlation between sonorities, taking into account the effects of timbre and microtonal inflection. We proceed from the work of Richard Parncutt and Ernst Terhardt, extending their algorithms for the ...

A Distributed Approach to Musical Composition

Current techniques for automated composition use a single algorithm, focusing on one aspect of musical generation. In our system we make use of several algorithms, distributed using an agent oriented middleware, with each specialising on a separate aspect of composition. This paper describes the architecture and algorithms behind this system, with a focus on the agent framework used for impleme...

Prelude to a Kiss

We consider expanding maps of the circle with an almost neutral fixed point c. In this setting the ergodic averages of a smooth observable A satisfy the Central Limit Theorem. If A(c) = 0 we show that the expectation and the variance behave as the square root of the multiplier of c times rapidly oscillating functions of parameters.

Backlash as prelude to managing managed care.

A Prelude to Standard and Standardization in Educational Systems

education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings ineducational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education.Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the present article tries to address this matter, due to the fact that we are in a situ...