Developing a theoretical framework for electro-acoustic music presents an array of problems not present in the analysis of Western tonal and post-tonal music. We present a theoretical framework characterized by the interaction of a perceptual and an analytic model. The perception of a composition is used to inform the analytic model. The analytic model examines aspects of a composition ranging ...

Music is known to be able to support certain aims of presentations. In addition, there are a number of approaches to automatic music composition. Thus, it is a natural consequence, to establish automatic, intention-based music composition as an additional tool for multime-dia presentation systems. However, many related applications show unsatisfactory results. An explanation for this phenomenon...

The recent discovery of spontaneous synchronization to music in a nonhuman animal (the sulphur-crested cockatoo Cacatua galerita eleonora) raises several questions. How does this behavior differ from nonmusical synchronization abilities in other species, such as synchronized frog calls or firefly flashes? What significance does the behavior have for debates over the evolution of human music? Wh...

We empirically investigated the effect of mental imagery on young children's music compositional creativity. Children aged 5 to 8 years participated in two music composition sessions. In the control session, participants based their composition on a motif that they had created using a sequence of letter names. In the mental imagery session, participants were given a picture of an animal and ins...

Tweet Harp is a musical instrument using Twitter and a laser harp. This instrument features the use of the human voice speaking tweets in Twitter as sounds for music. It is played by touching the six harp strings of laser beams. Tweet Harp gets the latest tweets from Twitter in real-time, and it creates music like a song with unexpected words. It also creates animation displaying the texts at t...

BACKGROUND Music-supported therapy has been shown to be an effective tool for rehabilitation of motor deficits after stroke. A unique feature of music performance is that it is inherently social: music can be played together in synchrony. AIM The present study explored the potential of synchronized music playing during therapy, asking whether synchronized playing could improve fine motor reha...