Sounds of hammering or clapping can evoke simulation of the arm movements that have been previously associated with those sounds. This audio-motor transformation also occurs at the sequential level and plays a role in speech and music processing. The present study aimed to demonstrate how the activation pattern of the sensorimotor network was modulated by the sequential nature of the auditory i...

iran, with more than 90% of world production, is known as the main saffron producer. this plant is sterile and the saffron proliferation is possible only via cultivation of corms. one of the most problems in saffron cultivation is the yield reduction due to planting of small corms. in this research, a new saffron corm-grading machine is introduced. the machine includes a rotating drum, which is...

Previous observation of spontaneous speech has shown consistent use of pitch accent by speakers to mark the contrastive status of words. To investigate how listeners process accentual prominence marking a contrast, eyemovements were monitored while participants listened to spoken directions and searched for ornaments to decorate holiday trees. Eye movement latencies to the target ornament cells...

The voice is a rich and powerful means of expressing acoustic concepts such as musical sounds. Recent research on vocal imitations has demonstrated the viability of using the voice to search for sounds, using query by vocalisation. Here we present the methods used to develop a dataset for evaluating the performance of query by vocalisation systems for drum sounds. The dataset consists of imitat...

The analysis and separation of audio signals into their original components is an important prerequisite to automatic transcription of music, extraction of metadata from audio data, and speaker separation in video conferencing. In this paper, a method for the separation of drum tracks from polyphonic music is proposed. It consists of an Independent Component Analysis and a subsequent partitioni...

We present an analysis of the bass drum circuit from the classic Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, based on physical models of the device’s many sub-circuits. A digital model based on this analysis (implemented in Cycling 74’s Gen ̃) retains the salient features of the original and allows accurate emulation of circuit-bent modifications—complicated behavior that is impossible to capture through bla...

Presented is a method of generating a full drum kit part for a provided kick-drum sequence. A sequence to sequence neural network model used in natural language translation was adopted to encode multiple musical styles and an online survey was developed to test different techniques for sampling the output of the softmax function. The strongest results were found using a sampling technique that ...

An analysis is made of the deflected forms assumed by an elastic strip when it is bent and stretched around a rigid drum. A summary is first given of the method of analysis used and the results obtained in a previous study where the drum width is equal to or greater than that of the strip. This work is then extended to the case where the strip width exceeds that of the drum. Defiected forms and...