 Professional musicians manipulate sound properties such as timing, energy, pitch and timbre in order to add expression to their performances. However, there is little quantitative information about how and in which context this manipulation occurs. This is particularly true in Jazz music where learning to play expressively is mostly acquired intuitively. In this paper we describe a machine le...

"The musically aware hostess no longer allows the butler, or her husband, to sling records on to the turntable in a haphazard way. She no longer risks the dangers of the soup being spilled by Haydn's 'Surprise' Symphony, or Mrs. Alias-Jones choking over the fish because an ill-timed bit of jazz trumpet has frightened her. She now supplies a ready-made background of elegant and suitable music to...

Jazz has entered the academy through the efforts of its supporters to establish it as an important art form in its own right, and as a result, jazz has received academic attention as a field of study largely separate from both contemporary musicology or popular music studies. Interestingly, just as in the classical sphere, the history of jazz has been written, its ‘great’ performers and compose...

The Jazz file format is intended to be a replacement for the JAR file format when used for storage and distribution of Java programs. A Jazz file is compressed to a degree that far exceeds what is possible with a JAR file. The smaller size of the Jazz format permits faster transmission speeds over a network and has the additional benefit of conserving disk storage. The compression is achieved a...

Previous work in genre recognition and characterization from symbolic sources (melodies extracted from MIDI files) carried out by our group pointed our research to study how the different utilized approaches perform and how their different abilities can be used together in order to improve both the accuracy and robustness of their decisions. Results for a corpus of Jazz and Classical music piec...

This article considers the counterpoint in jazz between implied, underlying form and what is actually played a given performance. My observations are framed within model for listening called “Stable Norms Salient Deviations” (SNSD). Detailed analysis of an improvisation by jazz/R&B musician Robert Glasper demonstrates how my ideas about voicings applicable to melodic improvisation. In addition ...

Creativity has been defined as the ability to produce work that is novel, high in quality, and appropriate to an audience. While the nature of the creative process is under debate, many believe that creativity relies on real-time combinations of known neural and cognitive processes. One useful model of creativity comes from musical improvisation, such as in jazz, in which musicians spontaneousl...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle degenerative disease, due to absence of dystrophin. There is currently no effective treatment for DMD. Our aim is to up-regulate the expression level of the dystrophin related gene utrophin in DMD, complementing in this way the lack of dystrophin functions. To this end we designed and engineered several synthetic zinc finger based transcripti...

A pronounced shift is occurring in fields concerned with contemporary education, psychology, and cognition, such that learning cannot simply be conceived of as transmitting and receiving factual information. When viewed from an ecological perspective, all knowledge is ‘‘co-instituted’’ in which the learner is participating: it is embodied, situated, and distributed. Yet conventional jazz pedago...

The article discusses how the metaphor of jazz music making is used to facilitate visualisation and application of strategic thinking and creativity in the strategic marketing course. The evidence shows that students adapt well to and enjoy the metaphor, and find that it facilitates their learning of the subject.