Room-scale virtual reality (VR) affordance in movement and interactivity causes new challenges creating acoustic environments for VR experiences. Such are typically constructed from interactive objects that accompanied by an Ambisonic bed off-screen (“invisible”) music soundtrack, with the bed, music, acoustics describing aural features of area. This methodology can become problematic room-scal...

Anxiety disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders which can have negative effects on the human life. Children and adults can have anxiety disorders and these disorders can lead to secondary problems such as cognitive, perceptual, emotional and behavioral problems. For treatment of anxiety, the practitioners and psychologists can apply psychotherapy approaches such as: cognitive therapy, Ge...

Background in performance analysis and perception. Empirical studies of performance attributes such as tempo variations, dynamics (Palmer, 1989; Repp, 1997, 1999) and even visual gestures (Vines et al., 2006) posit that structural emphases can be measured from these aural and visual streams. Recording continuous perceptual responses from audience judges on tasks such as shaping perceived phrasi...

Music can be described best by music. However, current research in the design of user interfaces for the exploration of music collections has mainly focused on visualization aspects ignoring possible benefits from spatialized music playback. We describe our first development steps towards two novel user-interface designs: The Sonic Radar arranges a fixed number of prototypes resulting from a co...

research on popular music in iran has a short history. perhaps the article “sociology of the music of the masses in iran”, published in 1980, can be considered as the first methodological and systematic study on the popular music in iran.  in that article, the researcher, using marxist and neo-marxist approaches to study popular music, provides a general view on the music of the masses of the p...

Musicians have a more accurate temporal and tonal representation of auditory stimuli than their non-musician counterparts (Musacchia et al., 2007; Parbery-Clark et al., 2009a; Zendel and Alain, 2009; Kraus and Chandrasekaran, 2010). Musicians who are adept at the production and perception of music are also more sensitive to key acoustic features of speech such as voice onset timing and pitch. T...

Sound installation interfaces musical and visual art through time and space. It is a sonic intermedia practice, which blurs the boundaries of the visual and aural and includes the spatial, the temporal and the haptic. Since 1977 I have been designing sound installations that merge the senses, offering unique experiences for the listener as participating auditor. In the discussion of several of ...

ambits of tones (as one of the most important elements of mode structure) in old iranian music have multiple kinds and definitions. middle eastern musicologists have always tried to explain and devise tones ambits, because ambits of tones and structure of mode are irrefrangible. generally purpose of division of ambits to their components is explanation of melodic modules and their combination. ...