Red Light Spotters is a multi-contextual interactive project which aims to create an open and real-time musical environment sharing relations with and extending a natural ambient environment, namely an urban landscape. The basic idea is to convert in real-time the input from a camera sensor recording a urban landscape (Tokyo city, at night) into an electronic musical soundscape. This is achieve...

Musical intelligence is one of the essential aspects that should be given to children. With music, children can easily remember and manipulate patterns musical forms. Music will primarily affect human life in form rhythms, instruments, songs. Therefore, improve early childhood, an educator must use percussion instruments children's intelligence. One way it where are hit found by surrounding env...

Processing rule-governed knowledge recruits the procedural memory system rooted in frontal/basal-ganglia circuits, whereas processing memorized idiosyncratic knowledge depends on temporal lobe regions involved in declarative memory (Ullman, 2001). These or related systems likely underlie ruleand memory-based processes in both language and music (Langheim et al., 2002; Patel, 2003; Miranda and U...

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We are developing RGeme (Rhythmic Meme Generator), an artificial intelligence system for the composition of rhythmic streams inspired by Richard Dawkin's theory of memes. The system is based on intelligent agents that learn from examples and interact by generating rhythms. The system has two broad stages. In the first one, the learning stage, which is the main focus of this paper, Agents are tr...

In this paper we present an artificial intelligence system inspired by Richard Dawkin's theory of memes for the composition of rhythmic passages. Rhythmic composition is understood as the process of interconnecting sequences of basic elements (or "rhythmic memes"). The overall design of the system consists of two broad stages: the learning stage and the production stage. In the learning stage, ...

There are musical activities in which we are faced with symbolic and sub-symbolic processes. This research focuses on the question whether there is any advantage in integrating a neural network together with a distributed artiicial intelligence approach in the musical domain. In this work, we present a new approach for composing and analyzing polyphonic music. As a case study, we began experime...

Williams Syndrome (WS) is a neurogenetic developmental disorder characterized by peaks and valleys of cognitive abilities. One peak that has been understudied is the affinity that many individuals with WS have toward music. It remains unknown whether their high levels of musical interest, skill and expressivity are related to their sociable personality or their verbal intelligence. We examined ...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.