Khatriza Saffian

Universiti Putra Malaysia | UPM · Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

Mobile applications have been developed as interfaces for musical purposes. The development of various musical mobile applications comes down to the interactions between users and the applications. Common touchscreen interaction of these applications is unnatural as it loses certain physical aspects such as movement, size, and effort. A preliminary...

Aural training is one of the fundamental areas in music training. At higher learning institutions, the course is offered at various levels which require music majors to be proficient at every level. This course receives a variety of instructional strategies with activities include sight-singing exercises, recognition of different musical components...

Independent music, often known as indie, is music produced independently from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. The "indie" scene in Malaysia has seen a dramatic growth in the last decade with numerous artistes now billing themselves a...

Previous technical works on gamelan instruments include topics such as tuning systems, acoustical analysis, tone measurement, timbre analysis, temporal and spectral characteristics. These works are heavily focused on the Javanese and Balinese gamelan but not on the Malay gamelan. In the Malay gamelan ensemble, the keyed instruments particularly fro...