“To learn how to hear, educate the ear, develop a student’s sense of voicing and timbre in nuanced hearing – this is first task pedagogue-musician, defining pillar his work.” These words great Russian musician, Grigory Kogan, shine light on inspiring path what it means for teacher simultaneously ears fingers with aim building artistic image composition. Of course, such instruction requires holi...

Background in Music Performance and Accompaniment. Musical accompanists may not always be available during practice, or the available accompanist may not have the technical ability necessary. As a solution to this problem, many musicians practise with pre-recorded accompaniment. Such an accompaniment is fixed and does not interact with the musician’s playing: the musician must adapt their perfo...

This article describes an application of physical modeling tools for pure data (pd) for real time interaction between a musician and an audio synthesis. pmpd is a collection of objects for pd providing a very flexible way to particle physical modeling simulation and other kind of comportment-based modelling. pmpd is used for data generation. That is to say that, although they can easily be used...

My long-term goal is to interactively improvise with the computer, using it as a tool when I practice at home alone in order to help me capture and experiment with my own spontaneous musical ideas. Towards this end, I am building Band-OUT-of-a-Box (BoB), a software system that interacts with a live, improvising (monophonic) musician in the jazz/blues setting. My goal is for BoB to provide perso...

Traditional methods of signal analysis of one-dimensional data have limited use in unraveling how the movements of a musician in performance relate to the musical structure because performers’ movements are complex. Methods developed for the analysis of multi-dimensional chaotic systems, such as recurrence quantification analysis, are well suited to dealing with complex data of this type. We co...

Recent research has suggested that musicians have an advantage in some speech-in-noise paradigms, but not all. Whether musicians outperform nonmusicians on a given speech-in-noise task may well depend on the type of noise involved. To date, few groups have specifically studied the role that informational masking plays in the observation of a musician advantage. The current study investigated th...

Several pieces of evidence suggest that academic examinations fulfill the classical requirement of a psychological stressor. Academic examinations represent a stressful challenge to many students, but studies on examination-dependent corticosteroid response, a sensitive physiological indicator of a stress response, are inconsistent. In addition, several studies showed that music can decrease co...