Steve Larson Associate Professor of Music University of Oregon School of Music [email protected] I am interested in the search for musical patterns -not so much because I want to find particular patterns, but because I want to understand musical meaning and I believe that musical meaning is something that listeners create when they relate musical patterns to one another, and when they ...

When a person taps a foot in time with a piece of music, they are performing beat tracking. Beat tracking is fundamental to the understanding of musical structure, and therefore an essential ability for any system which purports to exhibit musical intelligence or understanding. We present an off-line multiple agent beat tracking system which estimates the locations of musical beats in MIDI perf...

Andreas Rauber Dept. of Software Technology Vienna Univ. of Technology A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Elias Pampalk Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence A-1010 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Dieter Merkl Dept. of Software Technology Vienna Univ. of Technology A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] ABSTRACT With the advent of large musical archives...

Andreas Rauber Dept. of Software Technology Vienna Univ. of Technology A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Elias Pampalk Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence A-1010 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Dieter Merkl Dept. of Software Technology Vienna Univ. of Technology A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] ABSTRACT With the advent of large musical archives...

This essay draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, phenomenological inquiry, and recent insights from the study of swarm intelligence and complex networks to illuminate the dynamics of collective musical improvisation. Throughout, it argues for a systems understanding of creativity—a view that takes seriously the notion that group creativity is not simply reducible to individ...

Andreas Rauber Dept. of Software Technology Vienna Univ. of Technology A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Elias Pampalk Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence A-1010 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Dieter Merkl Dept. of Software Technology Vienna Univ. of Technology A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] ABSTRACT With the advent of large musical archives...

This paper discusses the various ways in which the generation of an utterance requires modeling of the linguistic context of the utterance. To illustrate the role of context modeling in monologue generation, the so-called Dial-Your-Disc (DYD) system is presented, which supports browsing through a large database of musical information and generates a spoken monologue once a musical composition h...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether specific domains of musical perception (temporal and melodic domains) predict the word-level reading skills of eight- to ten-year-old children (n = 235) with reading difficulties, normal quotient of intelligence, and no previous exposure to music education classes. METHOD A general-specific solution of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA), which...

A new technology for music has emerged with unprecedented speed. Just over forty years ago, the first digitally-produced sounds gave pioneering composers from around the world a taste of vast new possibilities. Numerical experiments with sound became a logical extension of compositional interests that were pushing the boundaries of timbre, perception, new instruments and performance techniques,...

Genetic art is a recent art form generated by computers based on the genetic algorithms (GAs). In this paper, the components of a GA embedded into a genetic art tool named AMUSE are introduced. AMUSE is used to generate improvised melodies over a musical piece given a harmonic context. Population of melodies is evolved towards a better musical form based on a fitness function that evaluates ten...