Research on automatic identification of musical instrument sounds has already been performed through last years, but mainly for monophonic singular sounds. In this paper we work on identification of musical instrument in polyphonic environment, with added accompanying orchestral sounds for the training purposes, and using mixes of two instrument sounds for testing. Four instruments of definite ...

This article describes the process of creation of a new digital musical instrument: Osiris. This device is based on the circulation detection of liquids for the generation of musical notes. Besides the system of liquid distribution, a module that generates MIDI events was designed and built based on the Arduino platform; such module is employed together with a Proteus 2000 sound generator progr...

Interactive visualisation methods have been used to understand realtime acoustic analysis for the purpose of learning musical skills. However, interactive sonification has not often been considered, perhaps because it is assumed the musician cannot concentrate simultaneously on two sounds – their instrument’s sound, and the sonified information. However, whilst some finesse is required in desig...

The author’s close connection to traditional Alaskan culture has inspired the creation and implementation of new multimedia instruments based on the use of ritual objects in shamanic cultures of the far north. Simultaneously, the musical processes articulated by this music are structurally tied to environmental systems in a technique discussed here as ‘ecoacoustics’. In this work, performer/com...

Signal separation from mix has been an interest of research in recent years, and many learning algorithms and variations have been developed. In this paper we focus on separation of specific type of signal with practical application: musical instrument signal separation. The result of such separation can be used by amateur instrument players to listen to their part of a given music more clearly...

This paper suggests that there is a need for formalizing a component model of gestural primitive throughput in music instrument design. The purpose of this model is to construct a coherent and meaningful interaction between performer and instrument. Such a model has been implicit in previous research for interactive performance systems. The model presented here distinguishes gestural primitives...

The purpose of our study was to determine whether active musical engagement alleviates decline in inhibitory control due to cognitive aging. Given that musical training in young adults has been shown to improve attentional performance, we can expect this benefit to persist for older adults as well. With the help of the stop-signal procedure, we measured response inhibition of young and older ad...