The new field of mobile music emerges at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, portable audio technology and NIME. We have held a series of international workshop on this topic with leading projects and speakers, in order to establish a community and stimulate the development of the field. In this report, we define mobile music, and map out the field by reporting on the workshop series and ...

Abstract—Music has always been an integral part of human’s daily lives. But, for the most people, reading musical score and turning it into melody is not easy. This study aims to develop an Automatic music score recognition system using digital image processing, which can be used to read and analyze musical score images automatically. The technical approaches included: (1) staff region segmenta...

Computerising the task of music editing can avoid a considerable amount of tedious work for musicians, particularly for tasks such as key transposition, part extraction, and layout. However, the task of getting the music onto the computer can still be time consuming and is usually done with the help of bulky equipment. This paper reports on the design of a pen-based input system that uses easil...

Abstract − Non-audio signals have been recorded in the flash ROM memory of a portable MP3 player, in WAV format file, to examine the possibility of using these cheap and small instruments as general-purpose portable data loggers. A 1200-Hz FM carrier modulated by the non-audio signal has replaced the microphone signal, while using the REC operating mode of the MP3 player, which triggers the voi...

When using a mobile music player en-route, usually only little attention can be paid to its handling. Nonetheless it is desirable that all music stored in the device can be accessed quickly, and that tracks played in a sequence should match up. In this paper, we present an approach to satisfy these constraints: a playlist containing all tracks stored in the music player is generated such that i...

This paper is a follow up from the work presented at the ICDVRAT 2006 conference in Esbjerg, where the first author introduced a Brain-Computer Music Interface (BCMI) to control a generative music system. Here we introduce a new musical application for the BCMI (an EEG-controlled music mixer) and report on efforts to make our BCMI system cheaper to implement, more portable and easier for users ...

Video recordings of performances of the same piece with the intentions happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. Video clips in four viewing conditions were prepared, showing different parts of the player. Twenty subjects watched and rated 32 video clips (4 emotions x 2 performances x 4 conditions) without sound. What can the body movements reveal about a musician’s emotional intention? Sofia Dahl &...

Music information processing has been widely deployed in music industries over the years. Of course, technologies oriented to musicians have long been studied including sound synthesis on music synthesizers, desktop music production based on MIDI sequencers, and various kinds of support for composing, performing, and recording music. Such tools have already become an essential part of the music...

This paper describes a mobile location based music player for outdoor sports like running, cycling or hiking. Athletes can boost their performance while listening to the right songs. The TIYU system augments trails with appropriate music for the athletes, either automatically using an intelligent selection mechanism or manually via a web based authoring tool. These so created trails can be shar...