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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Digital music"”.
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Processes of musical composition facilitated by digital music equipment
… experienced by high school students who compose music with digital music equipment. Using a qualitative format, the study sought to achieve a better understanding of processes, patterns, structures, and outcomes which emerge during musical composition. Since musical composition is a personal …
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Digital Docent: An Analysis of Accessibility in the Digital Music Space
… in technology. When it comes to the world of music, the same can be said, and digitization of musical material is moving at a faster rate than ever before. With the influence that music has on society and considering new ways of making music more accessible to the general public through the …
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Same song, new dance: analyzing market structure and competition in the digital music aggregation industry
… examines an innovative new market segment in the music recording industry: digital music aggregation. Digital music aggregators are music distributors that directly connect artists, any creator of musical content, to digital music vendors, online music stores such as iTunes or digital music …
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Sound strand design : designing mechanical joints to facilitate user interaction within a physical representation of digital music
… involved the mechanical design of a modular musical instrument, named the "Sound Strand." Intended to be attached end-to-end one onto another in order to produce a string of music, each module was constructed to be easily maneuverable by hand and compactly contained within a 4"x2"x2" space. …
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Digital Music consumption on the internet: consumer behaviour in the light of digital piracy, legal alternatives and ethical considerations
… the usage behaviour of legal and illegal digital music services on the internet and derive a theoretical model that includes the determinants for these behaviours. Based on this model, hidden heterogeneity will be examined amongst the sample population to extract different user-groups with …
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An investigation of the effect that the availability of legitimate channels for acquiring digital music has on piracy in South Africa
The problem of music piracy has been around for many years and costs the global economy millions of dollars annually. In recent years, advances in technology have facilitated more efficient methods for disseminating music in non-physical (digital) form by means of peer-to-peer networks and the …
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eMusic - Legal issues concerning downloading music over the Internet
Sharing music with friends and family has always been a popular activity. Under most copyright laws, sharing physical media with friends and family has always been seen as a 'fair use' - a set of usage patterns that have been traditionally considered to be exceptions to copyright law. With the …
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Active Ageing with Music and Technology: Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music
… dissertation, I argue that recognising community music practices and technology use as situated action provides opportunities to grasp the subtleties of social participation and technology use for active ageing. Qualitative and quantitative enquiries were used to (i) uncover the experiences of …
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Automatic Page-Turner for Pianists With Wearable Motion Detector
… sight-read, using one hand for turning the music sheets can cause distraction or short delay in their performance. Previous studies predominantly utilized audio or video processing techniques for following the musicians' performance. We suggested a framework that uses wearable technologies …
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Adaptive watermarking algorithms for MP3 compressed audio signals
… a significant popularity for distributing digital music over the Internet. MP3 compresses digital music with high ratio while keeping high sound quality. However, copyright issue is raised because of illegal copy, redistribution and various malicious attacks. Digital watermarking is a …
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Melody retrieval on the Web
The emergence of digital music on the Internet requires new information retrieval methods adapted to specific characteristics and needs. While music retrieval based on the text information, such as title, composers, or subject classification, has been implemented in many existing systems, retrieval …
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Designing mobile multi-touch drum sequencing applications
Digital music software can limit the forms of music we create by using interfaces that directly copy those of the analogue instruments that came before. In this study we report on a new multi-touch interface that affords a completely new form of drum sequencing. Based on ideas from Avant-guard …
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Children's Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren
… kids as young as four and as old as fifteen. Music marketed to children--led by the Disney juggernaut, which promotes superstar acts such as the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus across television, radio, film, DVDs and CDs, and branded toys, clothing, and electronics--represents a …
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A mood-based music classification and exploration system
Mood classification of music is an emerging domain of music information retrieval. In the approach presented here features extracted from an audio file are used in combination with the affective value of song lyrics to map a song onto a psychologically based emotion space. The motivation behind …
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Enhancing Music Interfaces with Soft Materials
Despite the growing popularity of digital music instruments (DMIs) and relevant technological advances, accessibility and expressive potential remain significant challenges for musical interface designers. These issues stem from generic input-output mappings, sensor limitations, and a lack of …
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Automated analysis of musical structure
Listening to music and perceiving its structure is a fairly easy task for humans, even for listeners without formal musical training. For example, we can notice changes of notes, chords and keys, though we might not be able to name them (segmentation based on tonality and harmonic analysis); we can …
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction and Performance with the Singing Voice
… and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments, ranging from strings to brass to percussion, involve some coupling of the “feel” of the instrument in the hands and the corresponding sound produced. The singing voice, however, is one of few musical …
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From Sketch to Stage: Tools for Prototyping and Exporting Collaborative DMIs on the Web
… for prototyping and exporting collaborative digital music instruments (DMIs) on the web, the primary purpose of which is to lower the barrier to making music and to enable easier collaboration. This is done in the context of the Creativitas website, which has become a tool of the MIT 21M.080 …
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The virtual-musical other: creating unique worlds through musical sound in videogames
… interactive and immersive medium, while eclectic digital music embodies and communicates this identity within the medium in ways that it cannot in others. In this work, I analyze the musical approaches in three post-apocalyptic videogames, Borderlands, Bastion, and Fallout 3. In these games, the …
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