Musical automata were very popular in European homes in the pre-phonograph era, but have attracted little attention in academic research. Motivated by a specific application need, this paper proposes a first approach to the automatic detection of versions of the same piece of music played by different automata. Due to the characteristics of the instruments as well as the themes played, this tas...

The evolution of instruments mirrors changes in technology, culture, and society. In the early twentieth century; engineers, inventors, and tinkerers started to experiment with ways of using advances in mechanics and electronics to record, enhance, and produce sound. Concrete examples of this phenomenon can observed in devices such as: the Telharmonium, a device which transmitted sequences of t...

The playback experiment – the playing back of recorded animal sounds to the animals in order to observe their responses – has twice become central to celebrated researches on non-human primates. First, in the years around 1890, Richard Garner, an amateur scientist and evolutionary enthusiast, used the new wax cylinder phonograph to record and reproduce monkey utterances with the aim of translat...

Although downloadable digital files have largely replaced physical media, the compact disc (CD) is still a popular medium for music distribution. The compact disc was the first digital medium designed for the consumer market and has become the most popular medium for commercial releases. It was envisioned as a replacement for the phonograph record, but with several important enhancements: not t...

With today 's entry I begin my ninth year oi writing columns in your school newspaper for the makers oi Marlboro Cigarettes. Nine years, I believe you will agree, is a long time. In fact, it took only a little longer than nine years to dig the Suez Canal , and you know what a gigantic under taking t h a t was! To be sure, the work would have gone more rapidly had the shovel been invented at tha...

Music listening has changed greatly with the emergence of music streaming services, such as Spotify and YouTube. In this paper, we discuss an artistic practice that organizes streaming videos to perform a real-time improvisation via live coding. A live coder uses any available video from YouTube, a video streaming service, as source material to perform an improvised audiovisual piece. The chall...

Objective/Context: This article aims to demonstrate how, despite the high prices of talking machines for pockets Mexican working classes, these sectors used various practices and mechanisms enter world recorded sounds. story develops in a specific context social uses Mexico, marked by interest several American companies country’s sound market, such as Victor Talking Machine Company, National Ph...

С момента зарождения музыкального искусства как такового музыка постоянно претерпевала эволюцию. Изменения в общественном устройстве, научно-технический прогресс, межкультурные взаимодействия - все это неизменно сказывалось на характере, форме и содержании музыкальной культуры различных эпох. Музыкальные жанры стили, по сути, являются отражением этих изменений. Они отражают дух времени, культур...