INTRODUCTION Cochlear implantation (CI) improves language skills among children with hearing loss. However, children with CIs still fall short of fulfilling some other needs, including musical perception. This is often attributed to the biological, technological, and acoustic limitations of CIs. Emotions play a key role in the understanding and enjoyment of music. The present study aimed to inv...

Computer music presents particular challenges for the analyst. This paper discusses the approach taken by the author to tackle these issues in analysing Jonathan Harvey’s work Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco [2]. The focus of the paper is not the analysis itself but the problems posed for the analyst by such a work and the methods used to try and resolve them. It describes a number of different tech...

The TaCEM project (Technology and Creativity in Electroacoustic Music) has investigated the relationship between technological innovation and compositional processes on the basis of nine case studies, including John Chowning’s Stria (1977). Each case study involved researching the historical and contextual background of the work, emulating the technology used to create it and analyzing its musi...

Automatic tempo extraction and beat tracking from audio is an important ability, with many applications in music information retrieval. This paper describes a method for tempo tracking which builds on current research in the field. In this algorithm, an autocorrelation surface is calculated from the output of a spectral energy flux onset novelty function. The most salient repetition rate is cal...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

In this paper, we proposed a novel framework to retrieve a music database by using a query of MPEG video sequence. In particular, music and video are considered as 2 time series data. We selected corresponding features in the music and video sequence. For example: the tempo in the music and the motion in the video. A novel similarity measure for matching these features is advocated to capture t...