Music perception and cognition are ruled by complex interdependencies between bottom-up and top-down processes at various cognitive levels, which have not been fully understood and described yet. Cognitive and computational descriptions of particular facets of music listening remain insufficient if they are not integrated in a comprehensive modeling. In the long term, we aim at proposing a comp...

The voice is apparently used in quite different manners in different styles of singing. Some of these differences concern the voice source, which varies considerably with loudness, pitch, and mode of phonation. We attempt to describe voice source differences between Classical, Pop, Jazz and Blues styles of singing as produced in a triad melody pattern by a professional female singer in soft, mi...

Most previous computer improvisation algorithms for tonal jazz create an output based primarily on the underlying chord progression. This approach may partly ignore melodic continuity often seen in transcriptions of traditional jazz artists. Here we suggest a different approach implemented as a computer algorithm that creates material solely based on probabilities related to past note choices. ...

CONTEXT Anesthesiologists use various medications to provide surgical patients with pain relief in the postoperative period. Other modalities, such as music, could be used in conjunction with opioids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to decrease pain and lower heart rate and blood pressure. Our hypothesis was that patients listening to jazz in a postanesthesia care unit (PACU) w...

Throughout this article we argue that collectivity and soul inform the work of expert teachers who refer to as Jazz Pedagogues. Jazz’s complicated history, like teaching, calls for a consideration painful, messy, beautiful, healing. We, team university researchers classroom teachers, examine ways jazz can serve one way understand how Black-centric, anti-racist English draw on their pedagogical ...

Can a computer evolve creative entities based on how creative they are? Taking the domain of jazz improvisation, this ongoing work investigates how creativity can be evolved and evaluated by a computational system. The aim is for the system to work with minimal human assistance, as autonomously as possible. The system employs a genetic algorithm to evolve musical parameters for algorithmic jazz...