This paper presents a statistical method that estimates a sequence of discrete musical notes from a temporal trajectory of vocal F0s. Since considerable effort has been devoted to estimate the frame-level F0s of singing voices from music audio signals, we tackle musical note estimation for those F0s to obtain a symbolic musical score. A naı̈ve approach to musical note estimation is to quantize t...

Understanding everyday behavior relies heavily upon understanding our ability to improvise, how we are able to continuously anticipate and adapt in order to coordinate with our environment and others. Here we consider the ability of musicians to improvise, where they must spontaneously coordinate their actions with co-performers in order to produce novel musical expressions. Investigations of t...

Emerging evidence has indicated infants' early sensitivity to acoustic cues in music. Do they interpret these cues in emotional terms to represent others' affective states? The present study examined infants' development of emotional understanding of music with a violation-of-expectation paradigm. Twelve- and 20-month-olds were presented with emotionally concordant and discordant music-face dis...

This paper presents a description of our submission to the C@merata task in MediaEval 2015. This submission is a revision to the system submitted for the same task in MediaEval 2014 including some bug fixing. The system answers the natural language queries over the musical scores. The approach is based upon two main steps: identifying the musical entities and relations present in the query, and...

The KIAM system is an attempt to solve the C@merata task at MediaEval 2016 [4] using regular expressions. The aim of the KIAM system is to try the suitability of regular expressions for text recognition in a limited dictionary. The system answers natural language queries over musical scores. The C@merata project has existed since 2014 and there are 200 questions each year which a participant's ...

This article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand the intersections of gender, sexuality, and dance. It examines the expressions of sexuality among gay males through culturally popular forms of club dancing. Drawing on political and musical history, I outline an account of how gay men’s gendered choreographies changed throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties. Through a noti...

When jazz musicians perform an improvisational piece of music their behaviors are not fully prescribed in advance. Nonetheless their actions become so tightly coordinated and their decisions so seamlessly intertwined that the musicians behave as a single synergistic unit rather than a collection of individuals. A fundamental aspect of such musical improvisation is the bodily movement coordinati...

A common approach to studying emotional reactions to music is to attempt to obtain direct links between musical surface features such as tempo and a listener's responses. However, such an analysis ultimately fails to explain why emotions are aroused in the listener. In this article we explore an alternative approach, which aims to account for musical emotions in terms of a set of psychological ...