This short paper follows an earlier NIME paper [1] describing the invention and construction of the Electrumpet. Revisions and playing experience are both part of the current paper. The Electrumpet can be heard in the performance given by Hans Leeuw and Diemo Schwarz at this NIME conference.

The maturing of music information retrieval (MIR) systems outlines an attractive future for emotion-based retrieval of music. The present paper reports the results of an elaborate study which explores (1) who potential users of MIR systems are, (2) how they perceive affects in music, and (3) what structural descriptions of music best characterize their understanding of music expression. 79 pote...

In the last thirty years, a significant shift from homology to omnivore argument has occurred in musical preference studies. Studies on mainly come North and South America, Western sometimes Eastern Europe. To best of our knowledge, there are no empirical tests omnivorousness Russia. The aim this paper is reveal preferences Russia, analyzes links between preferences, social-demographic profiles...

Internalizing and externalizing problems differ by musical tastes. A high school-based sample of 4159 adolescents, representative of Dutch youth aged 12 to 16, reported on their personal and social characteristics, music preferences and social-psychological functioning, measured with the Youth Self-Report (YSR). Cluster analysis on their music preferences revealed six taste groups: Middle-of-th...

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Many new interfaces for musical expression are hand or gesture controlled. For guitarists especially, this opens new ways to control sound effects while playing live. At the same time it is a challenge regarding the conception and design of such hand-controlled effects as guitarists usually use both hands for playing. In this paper we elaborate this particular design space to support future dev...

The computer games industry has recently been producing titles in a new genre called ‘music’ that toys with engaging the user in musical expression. The technology used in these games has allowed for novel interfaces for representing musical instructions which has yet to be tried within musical practice and tuition. The games themselves have greatly simplified the instruments and the music crea...

Tonal harmony analysis is a sophisticated task. It combines general knowledge with contextual cues, and it is concerned with faceted and evolving objects such as musical language, execution style and taste. We present BREVE, a system for performing a particular kind of harmony analysis, chord recognition: music is encoded as a sequence of sounding events and the system should assing the appropr...

The paper presents an algorithm for automatic transcription of recordings of bell-playing clocks. Bell-playing clocks are clocks containing a hidden bell-playing mechanism that is periodically activated to play a melody. Clocks from the eighteenth century give us unique insight into the musical taste of their owners, so we are interested in studying their repertoire and performances thus the ne...

The concept of Iranian traditional musical modes, namely DASTGÄH, is the basis for the traditional music system. The concept introduces seven DASTGÄHs. It is not an easy process to distinguish these modes and such practice is commonly performed by an experienced person in this field. Apparently, applying artificial intelligence to do such classification requires a combination of the basic infor...