OBJECTIVES: To test Music Marker Theory (MMT) positing that early adolescents’ preferences for nonmainstream types of popular music indicate concurrent and later minor delinquency. METHODS: MMT was tested in a 4-year longitudinal study (n = 309). RESULTS: The results showed that early fans of different types of rock (eg, rock, heavy metal, gothic, punk), African American music (rhythm and blues...

Electroacoustic music analysis is a complex and heterogeneous discipline depending on one musical genre which includes a large typology of subgenres: from tape music to computer music, from concrete music, to mixed music, live electronic music, laptop music, etc. Even though there are personal approaches, which causes musical analysis to be a delicate and subjective discipline, some main trends...

The loudspeaker is the most important and one of the most variable elements in the electroacoustic music performance process. Nonetheless, its performance is subject to a “willing suspension of disbelief” by listeners. In addition, its behavior and variability are usually not accounted for in assessments of the quality of music reproduction or music instrument synthesis, especially as they occu...

Genetic wave shaping proposes a solution for the difficulties in digital sound synthesis to generate large quantities of variations on user specified timbre characteristics. The algorithm may prove useful in both music and music technology. It explores the concept of genetic algorithms and is generally designed for artistic purposes.

This paper examines the methodological challenges and perspectives of designing game-like scenarios for the implementation of innovation processes in school science education. This paper presents a design-based research study of a game-like innovation scenario designed for technology education for Danish public school students aged 13-15. Students play the role of company heads that develop int...

This paper covers and also describes an ongoing research project focusing on new artistic possibilities by exchanging music technological methods and techniques between two distinct musical genres. Through my background as a guitarist and composer in an experimental metal band I have experienced a vast development in music technology during the last 20 years. This development has made a great i...

Article history: Received 24 April 2016 Received in revised form 26 February 2017 Accepted 3 March 2017 Available online 15 March 2017 We examined whether the link between intelligence and musical expertise is better explained by formal music lessons or music aptitude. Musically trained and untrained adults completed tests of nonverbal intelligence (Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices) andmus...

This paper reports the current level of development achieved by our research into brain-computer music interfacing (BCMI), which is aimed at special needs and Music Therapy, in addition to the entertainment industry. It surveys the technology developed to date at ICCMR and glances at work-inprogress designs informed by cognitive experiments. Research into BCMI involves three major challenging p...

Article history: Received 26 June 2015 Received in revised form 23 November 2015 Accepted 30 November 2015 Available online 7 December 2015 In areas with hot weather, photovoltaic systems can be used to help relieve the peak demand caused by air conditioning equipment. Users, however, are reluctant to invest in solar technology, arguing that the equipment commercially available is unreliable be...

In evaluating how creative a program or an artefact is, a key factor to consider is the value inherent in that program or artefact. Our research investigates the process by which cultural products may be accorded a form of specifically cultural value independent of market value, focusing in particular on how that process has been transformed through mediation by online networks. To do this, we ...