1 Yonezawa is also a graduate student of Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance. ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce our research challenges for creating new musical instruments using everyday-life media with intimate interfaces, such as the self-body, clothes, water and stuffed toys. Various sensor technologies including image processing and general touch sensitive devices a...

Music ensemble players discuss musical expression of the piece of music they perform, and determine how to play each note in a score such as the length and the dynamics of tone or phrases in every detail of the music. This paper introduces our system that supports the discussion about musical expressions on the web. Our system enables the users to write comments, draw symbols, and link videos o...

In this paper we introduce Oto-Shigure, an umbrella-shaped sound generator for musical expression. Attention of the music computing community hasn't been focusing on sound output but sound input. However, we argue that in order to make highly expressive sounds, it is significant to increase methods for sound output. Therefore, we developed the new sound-generating device for variety of musical ...

1 Yonezawa is also a graduate student of Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance. ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce our research challenges for creating new musical instruments using everyday-life media with intimate interfaces, such as the self-body, clothes, water and stuffed toys. Various sensor technologies including image processing and general touch sensitive devices a...

We present here GeKiPe, a gestural interface for musical expression, combining images and sounds, generated and controlled in real time by a performer. GeKiPe is developed as part of a creation project, exploring the control of virtual instruments through the analysis of gestures specific to instrumentalists, and to percussionists in particular. GeKiPe was used for the creation of a collaborati...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to analyze creative music expressions of a performer in South Indian Classical Music (Carnatic Music). The method performs a qualitative classification of the extracted note sequences in a Carnatic music exposition by defining pattern classes. The classification attributes the note sequences in varying degrees to each of the classes. These patter...

Congenital amusia is characterized by lifelong impairments in music perception and processing. It is unclear whether pitch detection deficits impact amusic individuals' perception of musical emotion. In the current work, 19 amusics and 21 healthy controls were subjected to electroencephalography (EEG) while being exposed to music excerpts and emotional faces. We assessed each individual's abili...

In music analysis it is a common requirement to search a musical score for occurrences of a particular musical motif and its variants. This tedious and time-consuming task can be carried out by computer, using one of several models to specify which variants are to be included in the search. The question arises: just how many variants must be explicitly considered? The answer has a profound effe...