In this paper, we discuss the musical potential of COMPath an online map based music-making tool as a novel and unique interface for interactive music composition and performance. COMPath provides an intuitive environment for creative music making by sonification of georeferenced data. Users can generate musical events with simple and familiar actions on an online map interface; a set of local ...

Slowed gait in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) can be improved when patients synchronize footsteps to isochronous metronome cues, but limited retention of such improvements suggest that permanent cueing regimes are needed for long-term improvements. If so, music might make permanent cueing regimes more pleasant, improving adherence; however, music cueing requires patients to synchronize ...

IEEE 1599 is a new standard to encode music with XML symbols. It offers two important original characteristics compared to existing standards of the worlds of music, musicology and computer applications to this art and science. On one side, the encoding is in the form of symbols that can be read both by machines and humans. On the other, it allows the realization of applications in which all as...

Interaction with human musicians is a challenging task for robots as it involves online perception and precise synchronization. In this paper, we present a consistent and theoretically sound framework for combining perception and control for accurate musical timing. For the perception, we develop a hierarchical hidden Markov model that combines event detection and tempo tracking. The robot perf...

A novel approach for visual control of electronic digital music instruments is proposed, which is suitable for being applied in mixed ensembles of human musicians and electronic instruments. Gesture tracking and baton tracking by established computer vision methods provide input of either direct musical parameters (volume, pitch, expression) for the sound creation (control of synthesizer instru...

Traditional approaches to automatic music composition do not take into account the guided nature of music, instead augmenting existing material or generating scores based on provided seed parameters. Furthermore, these approaches often use a single algorithm to create a piece, where it is more natural to split the composition process into separate musical elements. Our new State-Based Sequencer...

In this paper we present a music composition system that uses a corpus-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. We model the composition process using a Turing-complete virtual register machine to render musical models. These are evaluated using a series of fitness tests, which judge the statistical similarity of the model against a corpus of real music. We demonstrate that the methodology...

While music transcends its time, it eagerly adopts the current technology. Musicians, like anyone else, use new instruments and procedures to reach their desired goals. In the age of computers, this is producing some fascinating results. C omputer music has existed as a formal application of computer science for at least 35 years. The idea has existed much longer. Ada Lovelace suggested the use...

Our aim in this paper is to clarify the range of motivations that have inspired the development of computer programs for the composition of music. We consider this to be important since different methodologies are appropriate for different motivations and goals. We argue that a widespread failure to specify the motivations and goals involved has lead to a methodological malaise in music related...

 Environmental enrichment is one of the methods for improving fish growth performance. In the present trial, the effects of both light color and music on growth performance and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus) (initial mean weight: 4.15±0.08 g) were investigated for 2 months. Two light color treatments (red light and white light) and three music treatments (M0: without music, M30:30 min...