Playing vibrotactile music: A comparison between the Vibrochord and a piano keyboard

A novel vibrotactile musical input device called the Vibrochord, which is designed to deliver patterns of vibration to the skin, not to the ear, through the use of a vibrotactile display called the Emoti-Chair, is evaluated using proposed evaluation frameworks. Findings show that the mixture of frameworks used in this study provided valuable insight into the design of this novel musical device. Results obtained through the implementation of a mixture of these frameworks show that the Vibrochord facilitated an increased accuracy rate over the traditional piano keyboard, when inexperienced vibrotactile musicians tried to repeat vibrotactile patterns or “melodies”.     

基于用户-标签-项目语义挖掘的个性化音乐推荐

个性化推荐系统面临的难题是推荐的准确性、多样性以及新颖性,同时其数据集存在稀疏、信息缺失(如用户描述、项目属性以及明确的评分)等问题.协同标注中的标签包含丰富的个性化描述信息以及项目内容信息,因此可以用来帮助提供更好的推荐.算法以二部图节点结构相似与重启型随机游走为基础,分析音乐社交网络Last.fm中用户、项目、标签两两之间的联系,首先构建音乐间及标签间的相邻关系,初步得到音乐推荐列表和间接关联音乐集合,然后按所提算法融合结果,重新排序,得到最终推荐列表,从而实现个性化音乐推荐算法.实验表明,在该数据集上,所提方法能够满足用户对音乐的个性化需求.     

Fractal Beauty in Xinjiang Folk Art Patterns

Xinjiang folk art patterns and designs are the art treasures of Chinese cultural treasure-house as well as the precious humanistic resources of Western China. In the process of collecting, sorting out and studying Xinjiang folk art patterns, the elegant simplicity as well as the good taste stands out impressively, and the pattern shape as well as the layout composition shows a distinctive national trait and a strong local color. As ＂The Geometry of Nature＂, fractal geometry brings about a new performing method. Various fractal graphs are created by different generators. Their dynamic pictures contain visual information of great magnitude and their artistic effect is similar to Xinjiang folk art patterns, which fully proves the fractal beauty in Xinjiang folk art patterns.     

The design and analysis of unequal error protection fountain coding for multiple source networks over binary erasure channels

A novel network model of multiple source fountain coding is developed and a novel class of generic multiple source fountain codes with unequal error protection(UEP)property is proposed.The And–Or tree analysis technique is generalized to analyze the asymptotic performance of the proposed codes and a joint optimization method employing both linear and nonlinear programs is developed to optimize the degree distributions.Furthermore,we propose three basic methods to achieve UEP property and the performance of each method is discussed.We employ these analytical results and optimization method to design and discuss several UEP codes with two and four sources for different application scenarios.Simulation results verify that the proposed codes can be applied to the networks with any number of sources and can provide strong UEP property in various ways based on the proposed three basic methods.     

浅论民族音乐在高校音乐教育中的融入与发展

分析民族音乐面临的困境与发展现状,揭示我国民族音乐的独特内涵及深远的意义,从民族音乐的收集与整理、教材的编写与推广、课程与师资队伍建设、教学模式的创新,音乐教育资源的整合、民族音乐文化活动的开展与弘扬等方面,提出推进民族音乐在高校音乐教育中的融入与发展的对策。     

Virtual reality in Africa – for Africa

The paper describes a number of virtual reality projects taking place in Africa. The availability of VR on PCs, it is argued, has made access possible for a large number of users. Applications for education and training and applications that preserve and promote African culture are particularly highlighted.     

Appropriating an architectural design tool for musical ends

NURBS (non-uniform rational b-spline) modelling has become a ubiquitous tool within architectural design praxis. In this article I examine three projects that utilise NURBS modelling as a means for which a musical system's inherent spatiality is visualised. There are numerous precedents for which architectural form is a derivation of a musical system, or a musical system is proportionally informed by architectonic gesture. I propose in this article three NURBS modelling methodologies: for the spatial analysis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's sound projection geometries in Pole für 2; for a spatial realisation of John Cage's indeterminate work Variations III; and for the generation of a surface manifold informed by musically derived soundscape data from the Japanese garden Kyu Furukawa Teien. Rather than seeking to translate music into inhabitable architecture, or architectonic form into music, I highlight an approach that produces an interstitial territory between discourses on architecture and music analysis.     

高等院校计算机音乐实验室日常管理中存在的问题及策略思考

高等院校的计算机音乐实验室是艺术类院校计算机音乐课程教学、科研的重要场所。本文分析了实验教学场地设备不足、实验室外设多而杂、实验室管理人员安装、备份系统和计算机病毒传染等常见问题,在工作实际的基础上,结合几年来管理维护的实践经验,介绍了在实验室管理维护中解决这些问题的方法、对实验室管理维护模式提出了建议。     

Visual FoxPro程序中背景音乐的实现方法探讨

目前很多数据库程序需要实现背景音乐来增强多媒体效果,计算机在安装声卡的情况下Visual FoxPro可以利用set bell to命令、插入OLE控件、调用库函数等多种方法实现背景音乐,一些没有安装声卡的商用计算机也可以利用WindowsAPI函数Beep编写PC喇叭音乐。该文探讨了在各种情况下Visual FoxPro实现背景音乐的方法,并给出程序实例。     

基于频谱增强和卷积宽度学习的音乐流派分类

针对频谱图对于音乐特征挖掘较弱、深度学习分类模型复杂且训练时间长的问题,设计了一种基于频谱增强和卷积宽度学习(CNNBLS)的音乐流派分类模型.该模型首先通过SpecAugment中随机屏蔽部分频率信道的方法增强梅尔频谱图,再将切割后的梅尔频谱图作为CNNBLS的输入,同时将指数线性单元函数(ELU)融合进CNNBLS的卷积层,以增强其分类精度.相较于其他机器学习网络框架, CNNBLS能用少量的训练时间获得较高的分类精度.此外, CNNBLS可以对增量数据进行快速学习.实验结果表明:无增量模型CNNBLS在训练400首音乐数据可获得90.06%的分类准确率,增量模型Incremental-CNNBLS在增加400首训练数据后可达91.53%的分类准确率.