Music has been more than just a sound that entertains humans from time immemorial. The pitch determination plays the vital role for many musical processing algorithms. . Repetition is a core principle in musical process. a new approach for automatically characterizing the pitch and tempo of music and audio. Musical information retrieval relates to the identification of perceptually extracts the...

A set of features extracted from audio sources is investigated for content-based classification of musical instrument timbres. The adopted features describe spectral characteristics of monophonic sounds and rely on the previous segmentation of the signal and the estimation of pitch. The dataset is composed by 1007 tones from 27 musical instruments ranging from orchestral sounds (strings, woodwi...

Several features were compared with regard to recognition performance in a musical instrument recognition system. Both mel-frequency and linear prediction cepstral and delta cepstral coefficients were calculated. Linear prediction analysis was carried out both on a uniform and a warped frequency scale, and reflection coefficients were also used as features. The performance of earlier described ...

Recognition of musical instruments in multi-instrumental, polyphonic music, is a difficult challenge which is yet far from being solved. Successful instrument recognition techniques in solos (monophonic or polyphonic recordings of single instruments) can help to deal with this task. We introduce an instrument recognition process in solo recordings of a set of instruments (bassoon, clarinet, flu...

In this paper, we present YARMI, a collaborative, networked, tangible, musical instrument. YARMI operates on augmented-reality space (shared between the performers and the public), presenting a multiple tabletop interface where several musical sequencers and real–time effects machines can be operated.

This paper presents the iterative design process based upon multiple rounds of user studies that guided the the design of a novel social music application, Pyxis Minor. The application was designed based on the concept of democratising electronic music creation and performance. This required the development to be based upon user studies to inform and drive the development process in order to cr...

Exploring music actively can be restricted for someone with cognitive, physical, or sensory impairments. They may face barriers to participation and diminished experiences between their musical expression and the music making means available to them. Technology can be used to bridge these gaps and focus on a person’s capability to create personal instruments that allow for active music making a...

With the advent of high resolution digital video projection and high quality spatial sound systems in modern planetariums, the planetarium can become the basis for a unique set of virtual musical instrument capabilities that go well beyond packaged multimedia shows. The dome, circular speaker and circular seating arrangements provide means for skilled composers and performers to create a virtua...

A particular aspect in the perception of sound is concerned with what is commonly termed as texture or timbre. From a perceptual perspective, timbre is what allows us to distinguish sounds that have similar pitch and loudness. Indeed most people are able to discern a piano tone from a violin tone or able to distinguish different voices or singers. This thesis deals with timbre modelling. Specif...