Music performance is closely associated with body movements in many levels for both the instrument player and the listener. Recent studies show the existence of a strong link between bodily movement and conception and perception of music. The MvM (Music via Motion) framework was proposed over 10 years ago now and has been designed for several different scenarios including interactive dance perf...

We propose that traditional case-based recommender systems can be improved by informing them with context data describing the user’s environment. We outline existing applications with similar objectives and describe an application of our own — Ticketyboo — which uses music listening preferences and context information from users’ calendars to recommend tickets for music concerts. This data is g...

Wouldn t it be nice if we had a tool that could offer people the right music for a specific time and place? For HORECA (hotel, restaurants and cafés) businesses, providing appropriate music is often not just nice, but essential. Typically this boils down to music that matches a certain situation on desired atmospheres, this will be defined as a musical context (MC). The developed tool, a music ...

With a standard compact disc (CD) audio player, the only possibility for the user is to listen to the recorded track, passively: the interaction is limited to changing the global volume or the track. Imagine now that the listener can turn into a musician, playing with the sound sources present in the stereo mix, changing their respective volumes and locations in space. For example, a given inst...

This paper describes how industrial design students made everyday things interactive with Ardiuno in a programming course. It also describes 6 innovative projects made by the students; (1) A beat machine inspired by Rubics Cube, (2) an interactive and moving lamp that scans the area for faces, recognizes your smile, take a picture of it, and posts it on Twitter, (3) a self-typing typewriter fro...

This article explores some music instruments generic properties such as the diversity, the variability or the reproducibility of their musical output, the linearity or non-linearity of their behavior, and tries to figure out how these aspects can bias the relation between the instrument and its player, and how they may relate to more commonly studied and (ab)used concepts such as expressivity o...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate self-reported hearing and portable music listening habits, measured hearing function and music exposure levels in Swedish adolescents. The study was divided into two parts. MATERIALS AND METHODS The first part included 280 adolescents, who were 17 years of age and focused on self-reported data on subjective hearing problems and listening h...

In a typical musical ensemble performance, each musician must play at the same speed, at the same location in the piece. When this happens, we say they are synchronized. Currently, musical accompaniment systems such as [1] [2] achieve good synchronization with human soloists. However, in larger ensembles with many players playing different parts, synchronization becomes difficult. Several exist...

The implantable loop recorder has been shown to be a cost-effective tool for diagnosis of intermittent cardiovascular symptoms such as syncope and palpitations. Electromagnetic interference in these recorders may be caused by commonly encountered electronic devices such as antitheft electronic surveillance systems and magnetic resonance imaging cameras. In this report, we describe interference ...

As the high-capacity data storage devices (e.g. portable hard drives, and USB flash drives) become available to everyone, musicians are able to record all of their rehearsals and save them digitally. Given large amount of unlabeled and unorganized rehearsal recordings, manually organizing them can be a huge task. Therefore, managing music audio databases for practicing musicians automatically i...