BACKGROUND Reactions to music are considered subjective, but previous studies suggested that cardiorespiratory variables increase with faster tempo independent of individual preference. We tested whether compositions characterized by variable emphasis could produce parallel instantaneous cardiovascular/respiratory responses and whether these changes mirrored music profiles. METHODS AND RESULT...

Algorithmic music composition languages provide a particularly interesting challenge for language, abstraction, and system design. The term “music” encompasses a wide variety of things, from the production noise from signal generators, to a notation widely understood by musicians that expresses melody and rhythm. In this project, we investigate DAWPL (Digital Audio Workstation Programming Langu...

The cyanobacterium Synechococcus leopoliensis (Anacystis nidulans, strain L 1402-1) grown at 39 °C and 2 vol. % CO: could be synchronized by a light/dark regime o f 3:5 h (white light intensity 1 .5 x l0 4 erg cm 2 s e c '1). Content of pigments (chlorophyll a. phycocyanin and carotenoids), R N A and proteins increased linearly up to 100% at the end of the light period while D N A synthesis was...

The Music Table enables the composition of musical patterns by arranging cards on a tabletop. An overhead camera allows the computer to track the movements and positions of the cards and to provide immediate feedback in the form of music and on-screen computer generated images. Musical structure is experienced as a tangible space enriched with physical and visual cues about the music produced.

Generative music is a term used to describe music which has been composed using a set of rules or system. This series of eight episodes explores generative approaches (including algorithmic, system-based, formalised and procedural) to composition and performance primarily in the context of experimental technologies and music practices of the latter part of the twentieth century and examines the...

The parallel study of music in science and creative practice can be traced back to the ancients; and paralleling the emergence of music neuroscience, creative musical practitioners have employed neurobiological phenomena extensively in music composition and performance. Several examples from the author's work in this area, which began in the 1960s, are cited and briefly described. From this per...

In this paper we cluster 330 classical music pieces collected from MusicNet database based on their musical note sequence. We use shingling and chord trajectory matrices to create signature for each music piece and performed spectral clustering to find the clusters. Based on different resolution, the output clusters distinctively indicate composition from different classical music era and diffe...