Music is a cultural universal and a rich part of the human experience. However, little is known about common brain systems that support the processing and integration of extended, naturalistic ‘real-world’ music stimuli. We examined this question by presenting extended excerpts of symphonic music, and two pseudomusical stimuli in which the temporal and spectral structure of the Natural Music co...

Music is a cultural universal and a rich part of the human experience. However, little is known about common brain systems that support the processing and integration of extended, naturalistic 'real-world' music stimuli. We examined this question by presenting extended excerpts of symphonic music, and two pseudomusical stimuli in which the temporal and spectral structure of the Natural Music co...

This article presents an interactive music composition system which utilizes the black-box optimization model of evolutionary computation. The core CFE framework—Composition, Feedback, and Evolution—is presented and described. The music composition system produces short, manageable pieces of music by interacting with users. The essential features of the system include the capability of creating...

The video game Dance Dance Revolution is a musicbased game of timing. The game plays music and shows patterns of arrows synchronized with the music. The player stands on a platform marked with the same four arrows shown in the game and earns a score based on how closely his steps match the timing of the video game. A pattern of steps for a given song is called a step chart, and each step chart ...

Automatic music composition is seen as a challenging problem by diierent researchers and there are several generative approaches. However, music experts often express reservations against music autonomously composed by computers: Deterministic systems mostly compose music that sounds rather boring whereas systems based on statistic methods produce music which can be uncontrollably ugly. An inte...

This thesis focused on the application of evolutionary computational techniques for music composition. Conventionally, the music evaluator in an evolutionary music composition system is either a human operating the system interactively, or a knowledge-based system. The objective of this study was to investigate a novel approach to music composition that combines a machine-learning based evaluat...

Music segmentation is a key issue in music information retrieval (MIR) as it provides an insight into the internal structure of a composition. Structural information about a composition can improve several tasks related to MIR such as searching and browsing large music collections, visualizing musical structure, lyric alignment, and music summarization. The authors of this paper present the MTS...

A program using rules of music theory was written to create original compositions. Following the rules of music theory guarantees harmonious compositions, but certain aspects of musical composition cannot be defined by music theory. It is in these aspects of musical composition where the human mind uses creativity. The current research utilizes a genetic algorithm to make decisions that cannot ...

Music composition and scientiic computing are usually considered separate and unrelated elds of intellectual activity. The thought of a musical piece being the result of involved calculations is not a familiar one; nor is that of using sound objects to present the results of large-scale scientiic computations. However, an unusual collaboration centered on the high-performance computing capabili...