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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"interactive music"”.
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Mobile-Based Interactive Music for Public Spaces
… equipped with various types of built-in sensors, interactive art has become easily accessible to everyone, musicians and non-musicians alike. These efficient computers are able to analyze human activity, location, gesture, etc., and based on this information dynamically change, or create an …
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Live interactive music performance through the Internet
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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A system for interactive music composition through computer graphics
… graphics has been extensive in the computer music field. Compositional systems employ different techniques in supporting the global strategies of composers, and they require alphanumeric input. Programs in computer graphics have been concerned primarily with the representation of common music …
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Auditory kinesthesia: A framework to facilitate the design and performance of interactive music systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Emergent transducing computing for evolving interactive musical agents
… Artificial Intelligence (AI), and computer music. It claims that computer programs prescribed in advance of the computing often cannot reasonably facilitate interactive music and AI, whereas interactive computing is more suitable. Interactive computing is an alternative approach, emplacing …
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Snow Spell: An Interactive Composition for Erhu, Flute, Piano, Cello, and Max/MSP
Snow Spell is an interactive composition for erhu, flute, cello, piano, and Max/MSP interactive computer music system. This one-movement piece, Snow Spell, is intended to depict the beauty of a snow scene by presenting four different impressions of snow envisioned by the composer through music. The …
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Massively multiplayer operas : interactive systems for collaborative musical narrative
Music, narrative, and social interaction have long been intertwined. The objective of this thesis is to create a platform, designed for interactive multiplayer operas, that explores the potential for technology-enabled systems to facilitate creativity through expression, the emotional affordances …
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A wireless sensor-based mobile music environment complied from a graphical language
… a framework for a wireless sensor-based mobile music environment. Most prior work has not been truly portable. Those that were have focused on external data as opposed to properties of the listener. In this project I built a short-range wireless sensor network (using the ZigBee protocol and an …
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A conversation-based framework for musical improvisation
… from computer-supported collaborative work to interactive music systems. This thesis presents a general model for structured collaboration based on conversational turn-taking. According to the model, collaboration participants share both a representation of the collaboration's structure and the …
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Experimental Approaches to the Composition of Interactive Video Game Music
… approaches and strategies to the composition of interactive music for the medium of video games. Whilst music in video games has not enjoyed the technological progress that other aspects of the software have received, budgets expand and incomes from releases grow. Music is now arguably less …
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WAI-KNOT (Wireless Audio Interactive Knot)
The Sound Transformer is a new type of musical instrument. It looks a little like a saxophone, but when you sing or "kazoo" into it, astonishing transforms and mutations come out. What actually happens is that the input sound is sent via 802.11 wireless link to a net server that transforms the …
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The Augmented Geometrically Spaced Transform : applications of the single channel frequency estimator
… of the acoustic piano, where the piano produces music and the transform analyses it. In contrast with the standard spectrogram, which is a complex frequency vector versus time, the AGST is based around a matrix of frequencies, known as the AGST Frequency Matrix, where for every frequency in the …
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Large group musical interaction using disposable wireless motion sensors
One of the difficulties in interactive music and entertainment is creating environments that reflect and react to the collective activity of groups with tens, hundreds, or even thousands of participants. Generating content on this scale involves many challenges. For example, how is the individual …
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Modelling metrical flux: an adaptive frequency neural network for expressive rhythmic perception and prediction
… and cognitive process by which humans listen to music and perceive a steady pulse. Computationally modelling beat induction is important for many Music Information Retrieval (MIR) methods and is in general an open problem, especially when processing expressive timing, e.g. tempo changes or …
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Score instruments : a new paradigm of musical instruments to guide musical wonderers
Advancements in technology have made musical instruments, especially electronic instruments, accessible to the masses. As a result, music-making has become more widespread and convenient. However, the blackboxing practices of commercial Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) have conditioned many users …
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Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction : Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music
Interaction is an integral part of all music. Interaction is part of listening, of playing, of composing and even of thinking about music. In this thesis the multiplicity of modes in which one may engage interactively in, through and with music is the starting point for rethinking Human-Computer …
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Music information retrieval: conceptuel framework, annotation and user behaviour
Understanding music is a process both based on and influenced by the knowledge and experience of the listener. Although content-based music retrieval has been given increasing attention in recent years, much of the research still focuses on bottom-up retrieval techniques. In order to make a music …
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Methods and Technologies for the Analysis and Interactive Use of Body Movements in Instrumental Music Performance
… interdisciplinary studies support the idea that music is a complex multimodal medium that is experienced not only by means of sounds but also through body movement. From this perspective, musical instruments can be seen as technological objects coupled with a repertoire of performance gestures. …
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Control, collaboration and audience engagement in interactive sound installations
… of development and investigation through three interactive works staged between 2013 and 2016. It looks at how to engage audiences with electronic soundscapes through interactive staging and the challenge of artistic control versus the benefits of collaboration. Collaboration is considered both …