In 2008, a humanoid robot developed by Honda conducted a symphonic orchestra in front of a live audience. It perfectly imitated the pre-recorded actions of the orchestra’s human conductor. Despite its realistic movements, it was suggested that the robot could not listen to nor interact with the orchestra as a true conductor would. For a robot to truly direct an orchestra, it would need to hear,...

In this paper, automatic musical instrument identification using a variety of classifiers is addressed. Experiments are performed on a large set of recordings that stem from 20 instrument classes. Several features from general audio data classification applications as well as MPEG-7 descriptors are measured for 1000 recordings. Branch-and-bound feature selection is applied in order to select th...

In this article, we explore the use of Bayesian networks for identifying the timbre of musical instruments. Peak spectral amplitude in ten frequency windows is extracted for each of 20 time windows to be used as features. Over a large data set of 24,000 audio examples covering the full musical range of 24 different common orchestral instruments, four different Bayesian network structures, inclu...

With the author’s own experiences in mind, this paper argues that, when used to amplify musical instruments or to play back other sonic material to an audience, loudspeakers and the technology that drives them, can be considered as a musical instrument. Particularly in situations with acoustic instruments this perspective can provide insight into the often cumbersome relation between the –techn...

I present MelodyMorph, a reconfigurable musical instrument designed with a focus on melodic improvisation. It is designed for a touch-screen interface, and allows the user to create “bells” which can be tapped to play a note, and dragged around on a pannable and zoomable canvas. Colors, textures and shapes of the bells represent pitch and timbre properties. “Recorder bells” can store and play b...

This paper presents a collaborative digital musical instrument that uses the ephemeral and physical properties of soap bubbles to explore the complexity layers and oscillating parameters of electronic (bass) music. This instrument, called Wubbles, aims at encouraging both individual and collaborative musical manipulations.

Music information retrieval and particularly musical instrument classification has become a very popular research area for the last few decades. Although in the literature many feature sets have been proposed to represent the musical instrument sounds, there is still need to find a superior feature set to achieve better classification performance. In this paper, we propose to use the parameters...

Biomuse Trio is a composition for biomuse, violin and laptop. The strengths of each instrument are fused into a chamber music composition that emphasizes precise, coordinated musical interaction. There is a particular interest to explore the human body as musical instrument, and thus the various prosthetics of the Biomuse are hidden in performance.

We will discuss the case study of application of the Virtual Musical Instrument and Sound Synthesis. Doing this application, the main subject is advanced Mapping Interface in order to connect these. For this experiment, our discussion also refers to Neural Network, as well as a brief introduction of the Virtual Musical Instrument “Le SuperPolm” and Gesture Controller “BodySuit”.