From the seventeenth century to the present day, tonal harmonic music has had a number of invariant properties such as the use of specific chord progressions (cadences) to induce a sense of closure, the asymmetrical privileging of certain progressions, and the privileging of the major and minor scales. The most widely accepted explanation has been that this is due to a process of enculturation:...

The practice of harmonic mixing is a technique used by DJs for the beat-synchronous and harmonic alignment of two or more pieces of music. In this paper, we present a new harmonic mixing method based on psychoacoustic principles. Unlike existing commercial DJ-mixing software, which determines compatible matches between songs via key estimation and harmonic relationships in the circle of fifths,...

Signal requantization to reduce the word-length of an audio stream introduces distortions. Noise shaping can be applied in combination with a psychoacoustic model in order to make requantization distortions minimally audible. The psychoacoustically optimal noise shaping curve depends on the time-varying characteristics of the input signal. Therefore, the noise shaping filter coefficients are to...

The derivation of spatial cues representing source localisation information is a typical component of multichannel spatial audio coders. Efficient compression of spatial cues based on psychoacoustic localisation features is investigated. Results show that the proposed quantisation approach for spatial cue compression achieves bit-rates of less than 6 kbit/s while preserving critical source loca...

Psychoacoustic tes t s can give valuable information for pedagogical and technical rehabilitation of hearing-impaired subjects. The two tes t s described he re give a contribution to the development of such tests . 1) The intensity-discrimination t e s t showed la rge variations of DI between the subjects and no correlation between DI and hearing los s (more than 85 dB ). m 2) The F1 discrimina...