When looking at modern music club settings, especially in the area of electronic music, music is consumed in a unidirectional way on a sound engineering level – from DJ or producer to the audience – with little direct means to influence and participate. In this paper we challenge this phenomenon and aim for a new bond between the audience and the DJ through the creation of an interactive dance ...

The Music & Science Symposium in Boston on April 12, 2013 was designated to merge new findings in the fields of music neuroscience, music therapy, music cognition, music technology, and music medicine. Experts in these respective fields presented four talks as well as musical performances. Dr. Psyche Loui reported recent findings in music-related neuropsychological research, followed by Dr. Con...

AIMS To quantify tobacco and alcohol content, including branding, in popular contemporary YouTube music videos; and measure adolescent exposure to such content. DESIGN Ten-second interval content analysis of alcohol, tobacco or electronic cigarette imagery in all UK Top 40 YouTube music videos during a 12-week period in 2013/14; on-line national survey of adolescent viewing of the 32 most pop...

Moving out of doors with digital tools and electronic music and creating musically rich experiences is made possible by the increased availability of ever smaller and more powerful mobile computers. Composing music for and in a landscape instead of for a closed architectural space offers new perspectives but also raises questions about interaction and composition of electronic music. The work w...

We present an interactive content-based MIR environment specifically designed to aid in the exploration of databases of experimental electronic music, particularly in cases where little or no metadata exist. In recent years, several rare archives of early experimental electronic music have become available. The Daphne Oram Collection contains one such archive, consisting of approximately 120 ho...

A crucial dimension of Content-based music management systems is their ability to compute automatically similarities between music titles. We propose a technique that allows users to find music titles that sound similar to songs they like. The technique relies on a modelling of the timbral characteristics of a music signal by distributions of Cepstrum coefficients. The resulting models are then...

The music industry has huge troubles adapting to the new technologies. As many pointed out, when copying music is essentially free and socially accepted it becomes increasingly tempting for users to infringe copyrights and copy music from one person to another. The answer of the music industry is to outlaw a majority of citizens. This article describes how the music industry should reinvent its...

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