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World Music Technology: Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Automatic Music Prediction

Music has been shown to form an essential part of the human experience—every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it may be, music has evolved into a variety of genres, peculiar to particular cultures. In fact people acquire musical skill, understanding, and appreciation specific to the music they have been exposed to. This process of enculturation builds mental structures t...

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Conference Proceedings World Congress Music Therapy 1999

The use of psychedelics in psychotherapy setting with music, as well as comparative research on drug-induced altered forms of perception have been roots of music therapy, (e.g. GIM). Changed perception filter functions have been used for psychotherapeutic issues but the uncontrolled use of psychoactive substances in popcultural environments increased social and personal problems. Valid estimati...

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Problems of music information retrieval in the real world

Although a substantial number of research projects have addressed music information retrieval over the past three decades, the field is still very immature. Few of these projects involve complex (polyphonic) music; methods for evaluation are at a very primitive stage of development; none of the projects tackles the problem of realistically large-scale databases. Many problems to be faced are du...