Without a rich understanding of user behaviours and needs, music information retrieval (MIR) systems might not be ideally suited to their potential users. In this study, we followed an ethnographic methodology to elicit some of the strategies used by musicologists to explore and document musical performances, in order to investigate if and how technologies could enhance such a process. Observat...

Music-related interventions have been extensively used in the field of sport and exercise as a strategy to ameliorate the effects of fatigue-related symptoms and enhance exercise performance (for review, see Karageorghis and Priest, 2012a,b). Recent evidence indicates that music regulates brain activity (Bishop et al., 2014) with consequent effects on psychophysiological responses and work outp...

This paper looked at presidential television advertising in the 2012 U.S. election. The author has undertaken a deep analysis of the way audio and visual elements are used to construct meanings in televised political ads. Meaning is suggested through the visual and aural means of expression available to ad creators. The organizing principle of this study is information manipulation for the purp...

Based on his academic background in multicultural music education and ethnomusicology, Huib Schippers developed the Seven-Continuum Transmission Model (SCTM) 2004 to describe teaching situations of world music. The current study adopted SCTM as a framework investigate Chinese teachers’ perceptions context issues (tradition, authenticity, context) transmission modes (analytic/holistic, notation ...

Admission procedures to elementary school in Music Conservatoires Portugal consist the assessment of aural aptitude. This investigation aims at assessing power aptitude predicting future musical achievement as well two other variables for same purpose: motivation and intentions parental support. For that matter, our sample includes cohort admitted candidates their parents 2019 2020 academic yea...

most islamic philosophers consider music as one the four elements of mathematics following aristotle’s quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. however, the philosophers usually avoid engaging the issues related to what music really does when perceived by man and how it can improve the life of man on earth. at the same time, sufists and mystics manly focus on the later issue. bas...

We combine two concepts, the musical instrument as metaphor and technology probes, to explore how tangible interfaces can exploit the semantic richness of sound. Using participatory design methods from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), we designed and tested the A20, a polyhedron-shaped, multichannel audio input/output device. The software maps sound around the edges and responds to the user’s ...

We describe a novel and intuitive interactive application for musical performance. This application, called the Pazellian, provides an easy way for users to control musical performance aspects such as dynamics and articulation, instrumentation, and the actual pitches being played. Users interact with the music via simple gestures on a graphical user interface. “Smart Harmony” technology harmoni...