The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) is an interdisciplinary research center within the UC Berkeley Department of Music. CNMAT’s mission is to explore the creative interaction between music and technology with a focus on composition and performance, often improvisational in character.

Generative music is a term used to describe music which has been composed using a set of rules or system. This series of nine 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 ...

Brain-computer music interfaces (BCMIs) may be used to modulate affective states, with applications in music therapy, composition, and entertainment. However, for such systems to work they need to be able to reliably detect their user’s current affective

The notion of formalized music implies that a musical composition can be described in mathematical terms. In this article we explore some formal aspects of music and propose a framework for an abstract approach.

Harmony is an important component in music. Chord progressions, which represent harmonic changes of music with understandable notations, have been used in popular music and Jazz. This article explores the question of whether a chord progression can be summarized for music retrieval. Various possibilities for chord progression simplification schemes, N-gram construction schemes, and distance fun...

This paper proposes a new time alignment method between scenario and sounds with voice, music and BGM (Back Ground Music) in order to generate video caption automatically. The proposed time alignment method, Voice-Music-Pause+BGM method, is based on the composition of voice and music models. The result of the experiments to evaluate the proposed method shows the proposed method works about 10 6...

For this project, your goal is to implement a program that writes music in contrapuntal style, since this form is so fundamentally algorithmic. Contrapuntal music, also called counterpoint, is a structure of musical composition that originated in the Renaissance and was developed extensively in Baroque and Classical music, particularly in canons and fugues written by Bach and Mozart. Many speci...

A wide range of approaches and techniques have been explored in attempts to build Automatic music composition (AMC) systems. However, most attempts have tended to use a single, centralized technique for the entire AMC process. This has many drawbacks. This paper proposes a solution to these drawbacks in the form of a tree-like structure made up of several interacting emergent systems. The struc...

previously studies have shown that music can be used to increase the time to engage in physical activity but music's role in controlling the intensity of pa has been studied less. the sensorimotor synchronization (sms), the coordination of rhythmic movement with rhythmic sensory stimuli method, seems to have enough potential and can be applied instead of the previous method for ordinary pe...