Bruno Mesz

Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero · Faculty of Arts

Zarlino, one of the most important music theorists of the XVI century, described the minor consonances as 'sweet' (dolci) and 'soft' (soavi) (Zarlino 1558/1983, in On the Modes New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983). Hector Berlioz, in his Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration (London: Novello, 1855), speaks about the 'small aci...

Purpose – This paper aims to extend current understanding concerning the cross-modal correspondences between sounds and tastes by introducing new research tools and experimental data to study associations and their reflections between music and taste. Design/methodology/approach – The experiment design addresses the multidisciplinary approach by u...

Several recent studies have examined the impact of music on the evaluation of food and drink, but none have relied on time-based methods. Since music and food/drink are both time-varying in nature, it would seem only appropriate to take temporality into account when studying the impact of music on the eating/drinking experience. A common method of...

Several studies have examined how music may affect the evaluation of food and drink, but the vast majority have not observed how this interaction unfolds in time. This seems to be quite relevant, since both music and the consumer experience of food/drink are time-varying in nature. In the present study we sought to fix this gap, using Temporal Domi...

Reported studies about crossmodal correspondences between music and smell basically focus on individual musical parameters. An experiment was carried out to explore such correspondences emerging from musical improvisation elicited by 20 olfactory stimuli, which allows the study of multiple musical parameters at the same time. A group of 14 pianists...

Introduction Music is known to elicit strong emotions in listeners, and, if primed appropriately, can give rise to specific and observable crossmodal correspondences. This study aimed to assess two primary objectives: (1) identifying crossmodal correspondences emerging from music-induced emotions, and (2) examining the predictability of music-induc...

Quorum Sensing es una experiencia gastrosónica para tres comensales. Una sopa se sirve en una vajilla de vidrio especial (Vajilla Emocional), diseñada como resultado de un proyecto de investigación sobre asociaciones de formas y materiales con emociones musicales. Las acciones de cada comensal producen vibraciones aplicadas al cuerpo de los demás....

Editorial para o dossê “Ubimus, Gastrossônica e Bem-estar” ocorrido de forma online em 2022 via Universidade Estadual do Paraná. Editores convidados: Damián Keller (Universidade Federal do Acre, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brasil), Tereza Raquel Alcântara-Silva (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil), Bruno Mesz (Universidad Nacional de Tres d...

INTRODUCTION: In this paper we discuss concepts and practices that point to a new field of ubiquitous music (ubimus)research centered on domestic settings.OBJECTIVES: The objective of this paper is to document and share a preliminary study of the use of taste as a trigger forcreative decisions and a comparative study of creative music making done a...

The aim of the present work was to study the temporal effect of music on sensory perception and on the emotional changes while drinking coffee. Two different commercial filter coffees were evaluated by a group of 48 consumers using the Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) method. The description was performed in silence and also while listening t...

These installations represent a continuation of a series of works on the aestheticization of scientific experiments: a two-way loop, where the results of empirical studies in the psychology of multisensory perception are the inspiration for the design of artistic experiences and objects, which in turn constitute experimental environments or devices...

Reliable crossmodal correspondences between basic tastes and music features have been found in recent studies [1,2]. In this work, we explore associations between scales, chords and tastes. Several of these elementary musical structures show non-random patterns of matching with basic tastes. Moreover, their aggregate dyadic consonance [3] anti-corr...

In this article, we look at the diachronic changes in tango harmony with the methods of network science. We are able to detect some significant tendencies of harmonic discourse in the first half of the 20th century, among them an enrichment of harmonic transitions and power law frequency distribution of triadic chords with exponents compatible with...

We present three digital systems: the Augmented Glass, the Bone-Conduction Hookah, and the sound installation T2M, designed for displaying sound and taste stimuli, with applications in research on crossmodal taste-sound interactions, multisensory experiences and performances, entertainment and health.

Musical theory has built on the premise that musical structures can refer to something different from themselves (Nattiez and Abbate, 1990). The aim of this work is to statistically corroborate the intuitions of musical thinkers and practitioners starting at least with Plato, that music can express complex human concepts beyond merely “happy” and “...

We present a model of style emergence based on flocking models. The system stabilizes in states with several non-interacting genres or style clusters, and the delayed dynamic yields more styles than the non-delayed ones. (Keywords: flocking, evolution, networks, musical genres).

In this work, the overall perceived pitch (principal pitch) of pure tones modulated in frequency with an asymmetric waveform is studied. The dependence of the principal pitch on the degree of asymmetric modulation was obtained from a psychophysical experiment. The modulation waveform consisted of a flat portion of constant frequency and two linear...

While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded domain of semantics: the words and concepts referr...

Vibrato is the more ubiquitous manifestation of a non-stationary tone that can evoke a single overall pitch, called principal pitch. Some recent results using non-symmetrical vibrato tones suggest that the perceived pitch could be governed by some stability-sensitive mechanism. A recently proposed one-parameter model based on time-frequency reassig...

We study vibrato as the more ubiquitous manifestation of a nonstationary tone that can evoke a single overall pitch. Some recent results using nonsymmetrical vibrato tones suggest that the perceived pitch could be governed by some stability-sensitive mechanism. For nonstationary sounds the adequate tools are time-frequency representations (TFRs). W...