We propose a new method for the musical pitch and instrument estimation of polyphony for transcription. Most of previous methods are based on the extraction of the pitch frequencies. But the extraction of the pitches is di cult since the musical sound has many harmonic components and these components are changed complicatedly depending on the tones and musical instruments. The principle of our ...

The hypothesis was tested that musical activities may contribute to the prevention of alexithymia. We tested whether musical creative achievement and musical practice are associated with lower alexithymia. 8000 Swedish twins aged 27-54 were studied. Alexithymia was assessed using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. Musical achievement was rated on a 7-graded scale. Participants estimated number o...

This paper presents the Ruskin Rocks project which is developing a rock instrument, making use of interactive multimedia to augment the musical characteristics of stones. Several historical rock instruments, which inspired the building of this instrument – iRock – are discussed. Fundamental vibration theory is applied to understand the musical nature of the rocks, and empirical data presented t...

Traditionally, the average professional musician has owned numerous acoustic musical instruments, many of them having distinctive acoustic qualities. However, a modern musician could prefer to have a single musical instrument whose acoustics are programmable by feedback control, where acoustic variables are estimated from sensor measurements in real time and then fed back in order to influence ...

Numerous scientific researchers have been pointing to the connection between certain music activities and development of the non-musical competencies. Learning to play a musical instrument contributes to the development of the multiple intelligences elements. The aim of this work is to determine whether there is a connection between the learning process and the activity of playing a musical ins...

In voice-driven sound synthesis applications, phonetics convey musical information that might be related to the sound of an imitated musical instrument. Our initial hypothesis is that phonetics are userand instrumentdependent, but they remain constant for a single subject and instrument. Hence, a user-adapted system is proposed, where mappings depend on how subjects performs musical articulatio...

Timbre recognition has always been associated with musical instrument identification. In music information retrieval (MIR) community there has always been increasing interest in identifying singers and identifying the musical instruments. There can be unending debate on, whether to consider human throat as a kind of musical instrument generating sound through air pressure and vibration or not. ...

In this paper we present HIVE (2016), a parametrically designed interactive sound sculpture with embedded multichannel digital audio which explores the intersection of sculptural form and musical instrument design. We examine sculpture as an integral part of music composition and performance, expanding the definition of musical instrument to include the gestalt of loudspeakers, architectural sp...

Kalimbo is an extended kalimba, built from repurposed materials and fitted with sensors that enable it to function as a reductionist control interface through physical gestures and capacitive sensing. The work demonstrates an attempt to apply theories and techniques from visual collage art to the concept of musical performance ecologies. The body of the instrument emerged from material-led maki...

With current state-of-the-art human movement tracking techology it is possible to represent in real-time most of the degrees of freedom of a (part of the) human body. This allows for the design of a virtual musical instrument (VMI), analogous to a physical musical instrument, as a gestural interface, that will however provide for much greater freedom in the mapping of movement to sound. A music...