Musicians have a variety of perceptual and cortical specializations compared to non-musicians. Recent studies have shown that potentials evoked from primarily brainstem structures are enhanced in musicians, compared to non-musicians. Specifically, musicians have more robust representations of pitch periodicity and faster neural timing to sound onset when listening to sounds or both listening to...

Pop music jamming on the keyboard requires massive music knowledge. Musician needs to understand and memorize the behavior of each chord in different keys. However, most simple pop music follows a common chord progression pattern. This pattern applies to most simple pop music on all the 12 keys. We designed an app that can reduce the difficulty of music jamming on the keyboard by using this pat...

pmpd is a collection of object for pd. These objects provide real-time simulations, specially physical behaviors. pmpd can be used to create natural dynamic systems, like a bouncing ball, string movement, Brownian movement, chaos, fluid dynamics, sand, gravitation, and more. It can also be used to create displacements thus allowing a completely dynamic approach of pd computing. With pmpd physic...

Musicians are known to have exceptional sensitivity to sounds, whereas poor phonological representations (or access to these representations) are considered a main characteristic of dyslexic individuals. Though these two characteristics refer to different abilities that are related to non-verbal and verbal skills respectively, the recent literature suggests that they are tightly related. Howeve...

Musician Maker is a system to allow novice players the opportunity to create expressive improvisational music. While the system plays an accompaniment background chord progression, each participant plays some kind of controller to make music through the system. The program takes the signals from the controllers and adjusts the pitches somewhat so that the players are limited to notes which fit ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of musical training on speech-in-noise (SIN) performance, a complex task requiring the integration of working memory and stream segregation as well as the detection of time-varying perceptual cues. Previous research has indicated that, in combination with lifelong experience with musical stream segregation, musicians have better auditory perceptual skills and...

The purpose of the Musician Assistance and Score Distribution (MASD) system is to assist novice musicians with playing in an orchestra, concert band, choir or other musical ensemble. MASD helps novice musicians in three ways. It removes the confusion that results from page turns, aides a musician’s return to the proper location in the music score after the looking at the conductor and notifies ...

This article follows the pandemic practice of London Improviser's Orchestra between April 2020 and June from perspective a Malaysian musician. Virtual mobility accessibility, isolation belonging: traits tropes COVID-19 life.

Vol. 29, No. 1, 2017 127 Received July 3, 2015, Revised January 14, 2016, Accepted for publication February 12, 2016 Corresponding author: Elisa Haroun-Díaz, Department of Allergy, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Avenida Reyes Católicos s/n 28040, Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34915504800, Fax: +34915448246, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...

Many studies have examined tactile perception and simple auditory perception in the blind, but none have previously investigated the neural basis of musical ability in this group. This topic is of particular interest because it has been suggested that early blind individuals may possess advanced musical skills (such as absolute pitch). Presumably, these skills could be the result of neural plas...