Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise, compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for everyone, it becomes increasingly difficult as we age. Although aging is generally accompanied by hearing loss, this perceptual decline cannot fully account for the difficulties experienced by older adults for hearing in noise. Decr...

This paper deals with the question of how the development of new musical artifacts can benefit from deeply engaging with contemporary musical practice. With the novel ideas produced by the NIME community manifested in musical instruments in continuous use, new research questions can be answered and new sources of knowledge can be explored. This can also be very helpful in evaluation, as it is p...

This paper revisits/extends “Principles for Designing Computer Music Controllers” (NIME 2001), subsequently updated in a NIME 2007 keynote address. A redesign of SqueezeVox Maggie (a reoccurring NIME character) is used as an example of which principles have held fast over the years, and which have changed due to advances in technology. A few new principles are also added to the list.

The Epipe is a novel electronic woodwind controller with continuous tonehole coverage sensing, an initial design for which was introduced at NIME ’03. Since then, we have successfully completed two fully operational prototypes. This short paper describes some of the issues encountered during the design and construction of this controller. It also details our own early experiences and impression...

Many countries and cities in the world tend to have different types of preferred or popular music, such as pop, K-pop, and reggae. Music-related applications utilize geographical proximity for evaluating the similarity of music preferences between two regions. Sometimes, this can lead to incorrect results due to other factors such as culture and religion. To solve this problem, in this paper, w...

Music education is a rich subject with many approaches and methodologies that have developed over hundreds of years. More than ever, technology plays important roles at many levels of a musician’s practice. This paper begins to explore some of the ways in which technology developed out of the NIME community (specifically hyperinstruments), can inform a musician’s daily practice, through short a...

In this article, we explore the use of Bayesian networks for identifying the timbre of musical instruments. Peak spectral amplitude in ten frequency windows is extracted for each of 20 time windows to be used as features. Over a large data set of 24,000 audio examples covering the full musical range of 24 different common orchestral instruments, four different Bayesian network structures, inclu...

Mountain regions in arid and semi-arid climates, such as California, are considered particularly sensitive to climate change because global warming is expected alter snowpack storage related surface water supply. It therefore important accurately capture snowmelt processes watershed models for impact assessment. In this study we use the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) estimate projected chang...