myMoodplay is a web app that allows users to interactively discover music by selecting desired emotions. The application uses the Web Audio API, JavaScript animation for visualisation, linked data formats and affective computing technologies. We explore how artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web and audio synthesis can be combined to provide new personalised online musical experiences. Users...

This work shows a perspective of the different researches on musical composition using evolutionary techniques. It is made a classification based on the critic element of the different compositions. Four types of works are analyzed: Interactive, based on examples, rule-based and autonomous ones. Finally it is proposed the integration of the several works in a common frame, where different appro...

This project provides a sample of the curriculum, Rapping English, which uses rap/hip-hop style music to teach ELLs vocabulary, grammar, discourse and prosody. The rationale for using musical instruction is based on Gardner’s (2006) multiple intelligence theory and Bloom’s (1978) learning domains. This curriculum instructs students through musical intelligence and the affective domain which are...

The paper presents the interactive music system SoloJam, which allows a group of participants with little or no musical training to effectively play together in a “band-like” setting. It allows the participants to take turns playing solos made up of rhythmic pattern sequences. We specify the issue at hand for allowing such participation as being the requirement of decentralised coherent circula...

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 ...

The relation between signals and symbols is a central problem for acoustic signal processing. Among different kind of signals, musical signals are specific examples in which there is some information regarding the underlying symbolic structure. While an impressive amount of research has been done in this domain in the past thirty years, the symbolic processing of acoustic and musical signals is...

The concept of musical genius used to frame a discussion of the "art" practiced by neurosurgeons is the focus of the 2004 Presidential Address to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). The musical genius, in contrast to the musically talented individual, is profiled and placed in the pantheon of those who have demonstrated extraordinary creativity. Observations and speculatio...

1. BRIEF SUMMARY OF RESEARCH PLAN This research project investigated brain adaptations in correlation with changes of behavior in 60 age and sex matched young adults with 3 distinct levels of musical proficiency. The main experimental strategy relied on the perception of graded expectation violations in expressive music by musical laymen, amateur and professional pianists. During functional bra...