the changes in the electromyogram patterns of two antagonist muscles were studied when female subjects performed a motor task with and without an auditory rhythm. During the performance of the motor task without the rhythm, the subjects demonstrated a common and consistent personal tempo and a common electromyogram pattern. With the imposed timing of an even or uneven rhythm, the initiation and...

Autonomous evaluation of computer generated musical pieces remains one of the most challenging open problems in evolutionary music composition. This paper introduces the design of novel mutation and fitness operators for autonomous evolution of human-competitive rhythm accompaniment using genetic algorithm. We propose several fitness operators that autonomously evaluate the quality of generated...

This paper presents a rhythm recognition technique based on a probabilistic approach by utilizing generative model for timing information in expressive music performance. The problem of rhythm recognition including rhythm parsing and tempo tracking, is to retrieve information of rhythm and tempo from a sequence of observed note durations. Since performed note length deviates in real performance...

Seasonal changes in the diel feeding patterns of the zooplanktivorous icefish (Neosalanx taihuensis), which is an endemic species of China, were studied in the large, shallow eutrophic Lake Chaohu of China during the autumn of 2002 and summer of 2003. The results of the diel feeding rhythm indicate that icefish is a visual particulate feeder. There were large differences in diet composition and...