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40th International Computer Music Conference
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11th Sound and Music Computing conference
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Volume II
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Music and Sound Perception
A paradigm shift for modelling sound sensation
John Mourjopoulos 878
About the different types of listeners for rating the overall listening experienceMichael Schoeffler, Juergen Herre 886
Alarm/will/sound: perception, characterization, acoustic modeling, and design of modified
car alarms
Alexander Sigman, Nicolas Misdariis 893
Color and emotion caused by auditory stimuli
Elena Partesotti, Tiago Fernandes Tavares 901
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Evaluating perceptual separation in a pilot system for affective composition
Duncan Williams, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda, Ian Daly,
Etienne Roesch, James Weaver, SlawomirNasut 905
Human perception of the soundscape in a metropolis through
the phenomenology of neural networks
Enrica Santucci, Luca Andrea Ludovico 912
Loudness Normalization: Paradigm Shift or Placebo for the Use
of Hyper-Compression in Pop Music?
Malachy Ronan, Robert Sazdov, Nicholas Ward 920
Musical timbre and emotion: the identification of salient timbral features in
sustained musical instrument tones equalized in attack time and spectral centroid
Bin Wu, Andrew Horner, Chung Lee 228
muTunes: a study of musicality perception in an evolutionary context
Kirill Sidorov, Robin Hawkins, Andrew Jones, David Marshall 935
Optimal Acoustic Reverberation Evaluation of Byzantine Chanting in Churches
John Mourjopoulos, Charalambos Papadakos, Gavriil Kamaris,
Georgios Chryssochoidis, Georgios Kouroupetoglou 941
Perception of interactive vibrotactilecues on the acoustic grand and upright piano
Federico Fontana, Federico Avanzini, Hanna Jarvelainen,
Stefano Papetti, Francesco Zanini, Valerio Zanini 947
Perceptual characterization of a tactile display for a live-electronics
notification system
Emma Frid, Marcello Giordano, Marlon Schumache, Marcelo Wanderley 954
Resolving octave ambiguities: a cross-dataset investigation
Li Su, Hsin-Yu Lai, Li-Fan Yu, Yi-Hsuan Yang 962
Study of the perceptual and semantic divergence of digital audio processed by restoration
algorithms
Sonia Cenceschi, Giorgio Klauer 967
Test Methods for Score-Based Interactive Music Systems
Clement Poncelet Sanchez, Florent Jacquemard 974
Timbre features and music emotion in plucked string, mallet percussion,
and keyboard tones
Chuck-jee Chau, Bin Wu, Andrew Horner 982
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Computational Musicology
Algebraic Mozart by tree synthesis
Keiji Hirata, Satoshi Tojo, Masatoshi Hamanaka 991
Algorithmic cross-mixing and rhythmic derangement
Zlatko Baracskai 998
An idiom-independent representation of chords for computational music
analysis and generation
Emilios Cambouropoulos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Costas Tsougras 1002
Analysis of the simultaneity, voice/layer balance and rhythmic phrasing
in works for guitar by, Rodrigo, Brouwer and Villa-Lobos
Sergio Freire, Lucas Nezio, Anderson Reis 1010
AutoChorus Creator: four-part chorus generator with musical feature control,
using search spaces constructed from rules of music theory
Benjamin Evans, Satoru Fukayama, MasatakaGoto,
NagisaMunekata, Tetsuo Ono 1016
Computing musical meter - an approach to an integrated formal description
Bernd Harpfer 1024
Corpora for music information research in Indian art music
Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Gopala Krishna Koduri, Sankalp Gulati,
Vignesh Ishwar, Xavier Serra 1029
Fine-tuned control of concatenative synthesis with CataRT using
the Bach Library for Max
Aaron Einbond, Christopher Trapani, Andrea Agostini,
Daniele Ghisi, Diemo Schwarz 1037
FugueGenerator - collaborative melody composition
based on a generative approach for conveying emotion in music
NiklasKlugel, Gerhard Hagerer, Georg Groh 1043
Improving accompanied flamenco singing voice transcription
by combining vocal detection and predominant melody extraction
Nadine Kroher, Emilia Gomez 1051
Interval scale as group generators
Tsubasa Tanaka, Kiyoshi Furukawa 1057
Landmark detection in hindustani music melodies
Sankalp Gulati, Joan Serra, Kaustuv Ganguli, Xavier Serra 1062
Modality
Marije Baalman, Till Bovermann, Alberto de Campo, Miguel Nergao 1069
Modulus p rhythmic tiling canons and some implementations in
OpenMusic visual programming language
Helianthe Caure, Carlos Agon, Moreno Andreatta 1077
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Probabilistic harmonization with fixed intermediate chord constraints
Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Emilios Cambouropoulos 1083
Real time tempo canons with Antescofo
Christopher Trapani, Jose Echeveste 1091
Sampling the extrema from statistical models of music with variable,
neighbourhood search
Dorien Herremans, Kenneth Sorensen, Darrell Conklin 1096
Some perspectives in the artistic rendering of music scores
Gianpaolo Evangelista 1104
Spatial transformations in simplicial chord spaces
Luis Bigo, Daniele Ghisi, Antoine Spicher, Moreno Andreatta 1112
Spatialization symbolic music notation at ICST
Emile Ellberger, German Toro Perez, Johannes Schuett,
Giorgio Zoia, Linda Cavaliero 1120
The counterpoint game: rules constraints and computational spaces
Mattia Samory, Marcella Mandanici, Sergio Canazza, Enoch Pesericop 1126
The notion of Ethos in Arabic music: computational modeling of
Al-Urmawi's modes (13th Century) in Csound
Raed Belhassen 1134
Music Information Retrieval
A history of emerging paradigms in EEG for music
Kameron Christopher, Ajay Kapur, Dale Carnegie, Gina Grimshaw 1142
A study on cross-cultural and cross-dataset generalizability of music
mood regression models
Xiao Hu, Yi-Hsuan Yang 1149
An experimental classification of the programing patterns for scheduling
in computer musicprogramming
Hiroki Nishino 1156
Automatic singer identification for improvisational styles based
on vibrato timbre and statistical performance descriptors
Nadine Kroher, Emilia Gomez 1160
Distance in pitch sensitive time-span tree
Masaki Matsubara, Keiji Hirata, Satoshi Tojo 1166
Estimation of Vocal Duration in Monaural Mixtures
Anders Elowsson, Ragnar Schon, Matts Hoglund,
Elias Zea, Anders Friberg 1172
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Instantaneous detection and classification of impact sounds:
turning simple objects into powerful musical control interfaces
Nikolaos Stefanakis, Yannis Mastorakis, Athanasios Mouchtari 1177
Merged-output hidden Markov model for score following of MIDI
performance with ornaments desynchronized voices, repeats and skips
Eita Nakamura, Yasuyuki Saito, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama 1185
Method to detect GTTM local grouping boundaries based on
clustering and statistical learning
KouheiKanamori, Masatoshi Hamanaka 1193
Power-scaled spectral flux and peak-valley group-delay methods
for robust musical onset detection
Li Su, Yi-Hsuan Yang 1198
Short-term and long-term evaluations of melody editing method
based on melodic outline
Tetsuro Kitahara, Yuichi Tsuchiya 1204
Teaching robots to conduct: automatic extraction of conducting
information from sheet music
Andrea Salgian, Laurence Agina, Teresa Nakra 1212
Towards SoundScape Information Retrieval (SIR)
Tae Hong Park, Jun Hee Lee, Jaeseong You 1217
Transient analysis for music and moving images: considerations
for television advertising
Andrew Rogers, Ian Gibson 1225
Violin fingering estimation according to skill level based on
hidden Markov model
Wakana Nagata, Shinji Sako, Tadashi Kitamura 1233
Artificial Intelligence SystemsA multi-agent Interactive composing system for creating "expressive"
accompaniment
Michael Spicer 1240
An automatic singing impression estimation method using factor
analysis and multiple regression
Ai Kanato, Tomoyasu Nakano, MasatakaGoto, Hideaki Kikuchi 1244
Automatic competency assessment of rhythm performances of
ninth-grade and tenth-grade pupils
Jakob Abesser, Johannes Hasselhorn, Sascha Grollmisch,
Christian Dittmar, Andreas Lehmann 1252
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HMM-based automatic arrangement for guitars with transposition
and its implementation
Gen Hori, Shigeki Sagayama 1257
Intelligent exploration of sound spaces using decision trees and
evolutionary approach
Gordan Krekovic, Davor Petrinovic 1263
Laminae: a stochastic modeling-based autonomous performance rendering
system that elucidates performer characteristics
Kenta Okumura, Shinji Sako, Tadashi Kitamura 1271
Machine improvisation with formal specifications
Alexandre Donze, Rafael Valle, Sophie Libkind, llge Akkaya,
Sanjit Seshia, David Wessel 1277
ML* machine learning library as a musical partner in the
computer-acoustic composition flight
Benjamin Smith, Scott Deal 1285
Planning human-computer improvisation
Jerome Nika, Jose Echeveste, Marc Chemillier, Jean-Louis Giavitto 1290
Tempo prediction model for accompaniment system
Shizuka Wada, Yasuo Horiuchi, Shingo Kuroiwa 1298
Sound Analysis, Synthesis and ProcessingA bowed string physical model including finite-width thermal friction
and hair dynamics
Esteban Maestre, Carlos Spa, Julius Smith 1305
A flexible and modular crosslingual voice conversion system
Anderson Machado, Marcelo Queiroz 1312
A framework for music analysis/resynthesis based on matrix factorization
Juan Jose Burred 1320
A research of automatic composition and singing voice synthesis
system for Taiwanese popular songs
Chih-Fang Huang, Wei-Gang Hong, Min-Hsuan Li, Wei-Po Nien 1326
A Method of Timbre-Shape Synthesis Based On Summation of Spherical
Curves
Lance Putnam 1332
ATK reaper: The ambisonic toolkit as JSFX plugins
Trond Lossius, Joseph Anderson 1338
Audio signal visualisation and measurement
Robin Gareus, Chris Goddard 1346
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Audio-rate modulation of physical model parameters
Edgar Berdahl 1353
Detection of random spectral alterations of sustained musical
instrument tones in repeated note contexts
Chung Lee, Andrew Horner 1361
Effects of different bow stroke styles on body movements of a viola player:
an exploratory study
Federico Visi, Esther Coorevits, Eduardo Miranda, Marc Leman 1368
Evaluating HRTF similarity through subjective assessments:
factors that can affect judgment
Areti Andreopoulou, Agnieszka Roginska 1375
Gamma: a C++ sound synthesis library further abstracting
the unit generator
Lance Putnam 1382
Gene expression synthesis
AloAllik 1389
Modular physical modeling synthesis environments on GPU
Stefan Bilbao, Alberto Torin, Paul Graham, James Perry, Gordon Delap 1395
Musical audio denoising assuming symmetric a-stable noise
Nikoletta Bassiou, Constantine Kotropoulos 1404
Musical audio synthesis using autoencoding neural nets
Andy Sarroff, Michael Casey 1411
On the playing of monodic pitch in digital music instrument
Vincent Goudard, Hugues Genevois, Lionel Feugere 1418
Parameter estimation of virtual musical instrument synthesizers
Katsutoshi Itoyama, Hiroshi Okuno 1426
Sonification of controlled quantum dynamics
Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Daniel Burgarth 1432
Sound shapes and spatial texture: frequency-space morphology
Stuart James 1437
The sound effect of ancient Greek theatrical masks
Fotios Kontomichos, Thanos Vovolis, Eleftheria Georganti,
John Mourjopoulos 1444
The TR-808 cymbal: a physically-informed, circuit-bendable, digital model
Kurt James Werner, Jonathan S. Abel, Julius 0. Smith 1453
Timbre-invariant audio features for style analysis of classical music
Christof Weiss, Matthias Mauch, Simon Dixon 1460
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Touchpoint: dynamically re-routable effects processing as a
multi-touch tablet instrument
Nicholas Suda, Owen Vallis 1469
Toward real-time estimation of tonehole configuration
Tamara Smyth, Cheng-i Wang 1477
Towards a dynamic model of the palm mute guitar technique
based on capturing pressure profiles between the guitar strings
Julien Biral, Nicolas D'Alessandro, Adrian Freed 1483
Understanding and tuning mass-interaction networks through
their modal representation
Jerome Villeneuve, Claude Cadoz 1490
Visualization and manipulation of stereophonic audio signals
by means of IID and IPD
Giorgio Presti, Davide Andrea Mauro, Goffredo Haus 1497
HarmonyMixer: mixing the character of chords among polyphonic audio
Satoru Fukayama, Masataka Goto 1503
Computer Environments and Languages for Sound and Music Processing
A Protocol for creating multiagent systems in ensemble with pure data
Pedro Bruel, Marcelo Queiroz 1512
Audio rendering/processing and control ubiquity? a solution built using
Faust dynamic compiler and JACK/Netlack
Stephane Letz, Sarah Denoux, Yann Orlarey 1518
Comparing models of symbolic music using probabilistic grammars and
probabilistic programming
Samer Abdallah, Nicolas Gold 1524
Connecting SUM with computer-assisted composition in PWGL: recreatingthe graphic scores of, AnestisLogothetis
Sara Adhitya, Mika Kuuskankare 1532
DIMI-6000: an early musical microcomputer by Erkki Kurenniemi
Kai Lassfolk, Jari Suominen, Mikko Ojanen 1538
Extending Aura with Csound opcodesSteven Yi, Roger Dannenberg, Victor Lazzarini, John Fitch 1542
Flocking: a framework for declarative music-making on the Web
Colin Clark, Adam Tindale 1550
GenoMeMeMusic: a memetic-based framework for discovering the
musical genome
Valerio Velardo, Mauro Vallati 1558
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LC: a new computer music programming language with three core features
Hiroki Nishino, Naotoshi Osaka, Ryohei Nakatsu 1565
Model-view-controller separation in Max using Jamoma
Trond Lossius, Theo de la Hogue, Pascal Baltazar, Tim Place,
Nathan Wolek, Julien Rabin 1573
Mostly-strongly-timed programming in LC
Hiroki Nishino, Ryohei Nakatsu 1581
New tools for aspect-oriented programming in music and media
programming environments
John MacCallum, Adrian Freed, David Wessel 1587
o.io: A unified communications framework for music, intermedia
and cloud interaction
Adrian Freed, Rama Gottfried, John MacCallum, Jeff Lubow,
Derek Razo, David Wessel 1592
Programmation and control of Faust sound processing in OpenMusic
Dimitri Bouche, Jean Bresson, Stephane Letz 1598
Representation of Musical Computer Processes
Dominique Fober, Yann Orlarey, Stephane Letz 1604
SoDA: A sound design accelerator for the automatic generation
of soundscapes from an ontologically annotated sound library
Andrea Valle, Paolo Armao, Matteo Casu, Marinos Koutsomichalis 1610
Sound processes: a new computer music framework
Hanns Holger Rutz 1618
Using natural language to specify sound parameters
Jan-Torsten Milde 1626
Vuza: a functional language for creative applications
Carmine-EmanueleCella 1631
Interaction Design
3DMIN - Challenges and interventions in design development and
dissemination of new musical instruments
Till Bovermann, HaukeEgermann, Alexander Foerstel, Sarah-lndriyati Hardjowirogo,
Amelie Hinrichsen, Dominik Hildebrand Marques Lopes,
Andreas Pysiewicz, Stefan Weinzierl, Alberto de CampoHMI 1637
A design exploration on the effectiveness of vocal imitations
Stefano DelleMonache, Stefano Baldan, Davide Andrea Mauro,
Davide Rocchesso 1642
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A Recursive Mapping System for Motion and Sound in a Robot between
Human Interaction Design
Sinan Bokesoy 1648
Ambient culture: Coping musically with the environment
Marcus Maeder 1654
Association of Sound movements in space to Takete and Maluma
Amalia de Gotzen 1662
Augmented exercise biking with virtual environments for elderly users:
considerations on the use of auditory feedback
Jon Ram Bruun-Pedersen, Stefania Serafin, Use Busk Kofoed 1665
Data Auditorio: Towards Intense Interaction, an Interactive Hyper-Directional
Sound for Play and Ubiquity
Daichi Misawa, Kiyomitsu Odai 1669
Ecologically grounded multimodal design: the Palafito 1.0 study
Damian Keller, Joseph Timoney, Leandro Constalonga, AriadnaCapasso,
Patricia Tinajero, Victor Lazzarini, Marcelo Soares Pimenta,
Maria Helena de Lima, Marcelo Johann 1677
Ethos in sound design for brand advertisement
Elio Toppano, Alessandro Toppano 1685
Implementation and evaluation of real-time interactive user interface
design in self-learning singing pitch training appsKin Wah Edward Lin, Hans Anderson, Hamzeen Hameem, Simon Lui 1693
Modes of sonic interaction in circus: three proofs of concept
Ludvig Iblaus, Maurizio Goina, Marie-Andree Robitaille, Roberto Bresin 1698
N-gon waves - audio applications of the geometry of regular polygonsin the time domain
Dominik Chapman, Mick Grierson 1707
PheroMusic: navigating a flexible space of active music
Kristian Nymoen, Arjun Chandra, KyrreGlette, Jim Torresen,
Alexander Refsum Jensenius, ArveVoldsund 1715
POLISphone: Creating and performing with a flexible soundmaps
Filipe Lopes, Paulo Rodriguez 1719
Sonic scenography - equalized structure-borne sound for aurally
active set design
Otso Lahdeoja, Aki Haapaniemi, Vesa Valimaki 1725
SoundScapeTK: a platform for mobile soundscapes
Thomas Stoll, Teri Rueb 1731
Takt: a read-eval-play-loop interpreter for a structural/procedural
score languageSatoshi Nishimura 1736
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Computers and Music Education
Learning musical contour on a tabletop
Andrea Franceschini, Robin Laney, Chris Dobbyn 1743
Music technology's influence on flute pedagogy: a survey of their interaction
Diana Siwiak, Ajay Kapur, Dale Carnegie 1751
Recommending music to groups in fitness classes
Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Nicola Orio 1759
The "Harmonic Walk": an interactive educational environment to discover
musical chords
Marcella Mandanici, Antonio Roda, Sergio Canazza 1766
The Effectiveness of visual feedback singing vocal technology in Greek
elementary school
Sofia Stavropoulou, Anastasia Georgaki, Fotis Moschos 1773
The use of apprenticeship learning via inverse reinforcement
learning for musical composition
Orry Messer, Pravesh Ranchod 1781
Part C: Demos and Studio Reports
Demos
Mobile Instruments Made Easy: Creating Musical Mobile Apps with
LIBPD and iOS, No Experience Necessary
Danny Holmes 1788
Demo: Using Jamama's MVC features to design an audio effect interface
Trond Lossius, Theo de la Hogue, Pascal Baltazar,
Nathan Wolek, and Julien Rabin 1792
SYSTab: A proactive real-time expert system for ancient Greek music
theory and notation
Martin Carle 1796
Making People Move: Dynamic musical notations
Richard Hoadley 1801
Listening otherwise: Playing with sound vibration
Pascale Criton 1805
Spinphony
Mark Nilsen 1809
i-score, an Interactive Sequencer for the Intermedia Arts
Pascal Baltazar, Theo de la Hogue, Myriam Desainte-Catherine 1814
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Studio Reports
Sound and Music Computing at Aalborg University in Copenhagen
Stefania Serafin, Sofia Dahl, Amalia de Gotzen, Cumhur Erkut,
Dan Overholt, Hendrik Purwins, and Bob Sturm 1818
The Centre Iannis Xenakis's establishment at the University of Rouen
Cyrille Delhaye, Rodolphe Bourotte, and Sharon Kanach 1822
CeMFI and Earquake: (Epi-)Centers for Experimental Music,
Media and Research
Aristotelis Hadjakos, Steffen Bock, and Fabien Levy 1828
University of Helsinki Music Research Laboratory and Electronic
Music Studio - The first 50 years and beyond
Kai Lassfolk and Mikko Ojanen 1832
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