Musical Agents are an emerging technology, designed to provide a range of new musical opportunities to human musicians and composers. Current systems in this area lack certain features which are necessary for a high quality musician; in particular, they lack the ability to structure their output in terms of a communicative dialogue, and reason about the responses of their partners. In order to ...

An immaterial digital keyboard is presented, aiming at testing possibilities to substitute physical with augmented piano keys during the performance. The main effort has been made around the realization of an accurate meanwhile fast detection of the hands movement. To achieve this goal we have tested low-cost infrared as well as ultrasonic capture devices, whose current pros and cons are presen...

Feature Based Modelling uses attribute value machine learning techniques to model the relationships between the cognitive system’s inputs and outputs. This paper describes techniques that have been developed for creating these models and for extracting key information therefrom. An overview is provided of studies that have evaluated the application of feature based modelling in a number of educ...

Musical incipits are short extracts of scores, taken from the beginning. The RISM A/II collection [6] contains about half a million of them. This large collection size makes a ground truth very interesting for the development of music retrieval methods, but at the same time makes it very difficult to establish one. Human experts cannot be expected to sift through half a million melodies to find...

In this paper the authors describe the VESBALL, which is a ballshaped musical interface designed for group music therapy. Therapy sessions take the form of “musical ensembles” comprised of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), typically led by one or more certified music therapists. VESBALL had been developed in close consultation with therapists, clients, and other stakeholders, and...

Gestenbasierte Eingabegeräte ermöglichen eine neuartige und natürliche Interaktion mit Computern. Dabei wird durch den Einsatz des gesamten Arms die Oberarmund Schultermuskulatur stärker belastet, als bei der Verwendung von Maus und Tastatur. In einem Laborexperiment wurde eine Beanspruchungsanalyse bei der Verwendung von gestenbasierten Eingabegeräten durchgeführt. Gleichzeitig wurden mögliche...

This paper describes a long term, collaborative project Sound Spaces. Within this project we creatively investigated various environments and built a collection of artworks in response to material gathered through a number of practical field visits. Our responses were presented in numerous, idiosyncratic ways and took shape through a number of concerted making activities. The work was conducted...

An experiment has been conducted, measuring pianists’ sensitivity to piano key vibrations at the fingers while playing an upright or a grand Yamaha Disklavier piano. At each trial, which consisted in playing loud and long A notes across the whole keyboard, vibrations were either present or absent through setting the Disklavier pianos to normal or quiet mode. Sound feedback was always provided b...

This paper presents new touch-screen collaborative music interaction for people with dementia. The authors argue that dementia technology has yet to focus on collaborative multiuser group musical interactions. The project aims to contribute to dementia care while addressing a significant gap in current literature. Two trials explore contrasting musical scenarios: the performance of abstract ele...