Current research linking musical composition and computer science has traditionally focused on the performance through virtual musical instruments, such as within the area of electronic music synthesis using modern digital signal processing techniques. Synthesized sound, however, achieves only limited accuracy and expressive translation from actual performance gestures due to errors produced wh...

The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show is a collaborative creative placemaking project that employs the power of arts to help protect freshwater ecosystems in Appalachian Mountains. Filmmaker Tom Hansell, musician Trevor McKenzie, and musician/dancer Julie
 Shepherd-Powell shares multimedia performance they developed collaboration with local civic organizations.
 

The traditional role of the musical instrument is to be the working tool of the professional musician. On the instrument the musician performs music for the audience to listen to. In this paper we present an interactive installation, where we expand the role of the instrument to motivate musicking and cocreation between diverse users. We have made an open installation, where users can perform a...

These two quotations encapsulate my personal thinking about music. I cannot imagine my life without listening to music most of the time. Being both a surgeon and an amateur musician, I have been, for a long time, intrigued by the potential relations between medicine and music (Fig. 1). Indeed there have been in history, many famous people who were both musicians and physicians or surgeons [1]. ...

This paper reports on the process and outcome of therapy using intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) with a professional musician who had suffered severe music performance anxiety over the course of his entire 30-year career. In this paper, we describe the nature of the therapy, the case history of the musician, the first assessment and trial therapy session, and the course and suc...

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of musical expertise in 9-year-old children on passive (as reflected by MMN) and active (as reflected by discrimination accuracy) processing of speech sounds. Musician and nonmusician children were presented with a sequence of syllables that included standards and deviants in vowel frequency, vowel duration, and VOT. Both the passive and the ac...