A musical piece typically has a repetitive structure. Analysis of this structure will be useful for indexing the digital music repository, segmenting music at transitions, and summarizing the thumbnails of music, all of which can be used in building efficient music retrieval and recommendation systems. This paper presents an algorithm that can automatically analyze the repetitive structure of m...

Inthis paper, wedescribeindetail theperformanceon avariety of tests of language processing of a patient (PS) who shows a strong effect of imageability in auditory repetition. Unlike deep dysphasic patients (e.g. Franklin, Howard, & Patterson, 1994, 1995; Valdois, Carbonnel, David, Rousset, & Pellat, 1995), who also show effects of imageability, PS does not make semantic errors in auditory repet...

This paper presents the ideas and mapping strategies behind a performance system that uses a combination of motion tracking and feature extraction tools to manage complex multichannel audio materials for real-time music composition. The use of embodied metaphors within these mappings is seen as a means of managing the complexity of a musical performance across multiple modalities. In particular...

The present article deals with the question of musical universals, as analysed from a zoosemiotic, and zoomusicological in particular perspective, focusing on a specific portion named “structures”. By structures are meant the musical traits in themselves, as distinguished from the para-musical aspects – that is behavioural patterns related with music and the whole psycho-emotional dimension of ...

The paper describes a music composition language MWSCCS – the Musical Weighted Synchronous Calculus of Communicating Systems. MWSCCS is a stochastic language based on Tofts’ WSCCS and Milner’s SCCS algebra. Main features of MWSCCS are its straight-forward approach to probabilistic execution, the ability for processes to generate musical events autonomously or to communicate amongst each other, ...

This paper investigates techniques for predicting sequences of continuous-valued feature vectors extracted from musical audio. In particular, we consider prediction of beatsynchronousMel-frequency cepstral coefficients and chroma features in a causal setting, where features are predicted as they unfold in time. The methods studied comprise autoregressive models, N-gram models incorporating a sm...

Although sophisticated insights have been gained into the neurobiology of singing in songbirds, little comparable knowledge exists for humans, the most complex singers in nature. Human song complexity is evidenced by the capacity to generate both richly structured melodies and coordinated multi-part harmonizations. The present study aimed to elucidate this multi-faceted vocal system by using 15...

Musicians and composers have been using brainwaves as generative sources in music for at least 40 years and the possibility of a brain-computer interface for direct communication and control was first seriously investigated in the early 1970s. Work has been done by many artists and technologists in the intervening years to attempt to control music systems with brainwaves and indeed many other b...

the holy surah “al- shams” with its effective musical sound is striking in ear and heart and includes various meanings in its few words. shortness of distances and abundance of swears and various contradictions is evident in it which led me to study it in three levels of stylistics: phonetic level, combination level and semantic level.the aim of this study is to explore the beauties of its styl...