A Constraint-based Approach for Annotating Music Scores with Gestural Information

The physical gestures that operate music instruments are responsible for the qualities of the sound being produced in a performance. Gestural information is thereby crucial for a model of music performance, paired with a model of sound synthesis where this information is applied. The highly constrained nature of performers gestures makes this task suitable to be modeled via a constraint-based approach, coupled with a strategy aimed at maximizing the gestural comfort of performers. We illustrate the problem representation, the search strategy and a validation of the model against human performance.     

Brokers and bricoleurs: entrepreneurship in Wales' online music scene

 The power of some new entrants to the music industry derives from their position as brokers in computer-mediated environments. Brokers act instrumentally to exploit their position within a network which, in turn, depends on their ability to build and sustain links (and, in computer-mediated environments, hyperlinks). Bricolage in computer-mediated entrepreneurship refers to the intuitive manipulation of resources in order to achieve (perhaps tacit) goals. Without careful stewardship of the new intellectual wealth thus created, bricolage may profit neither the individual nor the wider community. Accepted 14 March 2002     

丹东地区满族舞蹈音乐艺术分析与发展研究

研究丹东地区满族舞蹈音乐的历史特点与发展,通过研究丹东地区满族风俗对满族民间舞蹈音乐的影响,分析丹东地区特有的四种满族节庆舞蹈,发现满族民间舞蹈音乐在调式、旋律、节奏及形式方面的特点,并根据民间舞蹈音乐的特点提出丹东地区民间舞蹈音乐发展的方向。本文主要研究丹东地区满族风俗对满族民间舞蹈音乐的影响与发展。     

多媒体技术在高校教学中的应用

多媒体技术运用在高校音乐教学课堂中,不仅能为高校学生们营造一个生动的学习环境,吸引学生的兴趣,还能让学生直观地欣赏音乐,从而在在轻松的氛围中学习音乐知识,提高自己的音乐鉴赏水平。本文主要研究多媒体技术在高校音乐教学中的作用以及多媒体技术在高校音乐教学中的具体应用。     

Creating and evaluating a particle system for music visualization

In this paper, we present a simplified 3D particle system and fast translation algorithm we have designed and implemented to generate real-time animated particle emitter fountains choreographed by a classical music. The approach we used to translate and map the controlling information into the musical fountain animation is also introduced, as well as the process to build the physical model of the music fountains. A proof of concept is implemented to demonstrate the main system's aspects, its feasibility, and that it has met the system's design goals. Moreover, it shows that is possible to observe visual patterns that match the theme of the musical composition, as an example of how the system can be used not only for visual appreciation and entertainment, but also as a possible support tool for music composition. We have also conducted a user study as an evaluation of the system. The results of this have provided us with positive and useful feedback on the effectiveness of our visual mappings as well as further directions to explore.     

基于统计的音乐摘要研究

随着Intemet的发展,大量音乐资源在网络上涌现,对音乐资源进行有效检索标识是很有必要的,而摘要的意义显得尤为重要.音乐摘要是文本摘要研究在音乐检索领域的一个比较新的应用.综合使用统计相关原理和文本挖掘相关研究理念,对音乐资源进行一定研究,为音乐检索提供新的参考.     

基于支持向量机的乐音识别

乐音识别的研究早在20世纪60年代就开始了,但是直到最近,识别系统的性能仍不令人满意。本文通过研究乐音的声音和物理特性,提出了利用支持向量机进行乐音识别的新思路,给出了基本的算法框架,并对钢琴的所有单音进行了识别,实验证明该算法提高了识别的快速性和准确性。     

Continuous query processing over music streams based on approximate matching mechanisms

It is foreseen that more and more music objects in symbolic format and multimedia objects, such as audio, video, or lyrics, integrated with symbolic music representation (SMR) will be published and broadcasted via the Internet. The SMRs of the flowing songs or multimedia objects will form a music stream. Many interesting applications based on music streams, such as interactive music tutorials, distance music education, and similar theme searching, make the research of content-based retrieval over music streams much important. We consider multiple queries with error tolerances over music streams and address the issue of approximate matching in this environment. We propose a novel approach to continuously process multiple queries over the music streams for finding all the music segments that are similar to the queries. Our approach is based on the concept of n-grams, and two mechanisms are designed to reduce the heavy computation of approximate matching. One mechanism uses the clustering of query n-grams to prune the query n-grams that are irrelevant to the incoming data n-gram. The other mechanism records the data n-gram that matches a query n-gram as a partial answer and incrementally merges the partial answers of the same query. We implement a prototype system for experiments in which songs in the MIDI format are continuously broadcasted, and the user can specify musical segments as queries to monitor the music streams. Experiment results show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.     

Pattern discovery and change detection of online music query streams

Mining of music data is one of the most important problems in multimedia data mining. In this paper, two research issues of mining music data, i.e., online mining of music query streams and change detection of music query streams, are discussed. First, we proposed an efficient online algorithm, FTP-stream (Frequent Temporal Pattern mining of streams), to mine all frequent melody structures over sliding windows of music melody sequence streams. An effective bit-sequence representation is used in the proposed algorithm to reduce the time and memory needed to slide the windows. An effective list structure is developed in the FTP-stream algorithm to overcome the performance bottleneck of 2-candidate generation. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm FTP-stream only needs a half of memory requirement of original melody sequence data, and just scans the music query stream once. After mining frequent melody structures, we developed a simple online algorithm, MQS-change (changes of Music Query Streams), to detect the changes of frequent melody structures in current user-centered music query streams. Two music melody structures (set of chord-sets and string of chord-sets) are maintained and four melody structure changes (positive burst, negative burst, increasing change and decreasing change) are monitored in a new summary data structure, MSC-list (a list of Music Structure Changes). Experiments show that the MQS-change algorithm is an effective online method to detect the changes of music melody structures over continuous music query streams.

时装表演与音乐

时装表演是一门新兴的综合艺术,而时装表演中的音乐则起到引导表演的“灵魂”作用。木文试图从音乐在时装表演中的作用和时装表演中音乐的选配这两个问题的论述,阐明时装表演与音乐的关系,并指出要办好一台高质量的时装展示会,必须有音乐的默契配合。