Music Technology - Science topic

Since the 1980s, there has been an interest in the clinical benefits and challenges with the use of digital music technology in music therapy, yet there is still little information about the experiential potentialities of digital music technologies from relational, psychodynamic, and ecological frameworks. The ambient mode of being presents a heuri...

Is being performed at Halberstadt, Germany, by ORGAN2/ASL SP (1987), an organ piece by the American avant-garde composer, John Milton Cage (1912–1992), music theorist and pioneer in aleatorics, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments, whom music critics have called one of the most influential American composers of the 20th,...

Personae' is an interactive large-scale space sound installation designed by the students of the music technology classes of the 'V. Gambara' music high school in Brescia (Italy). The activities that led to the conception and realization of the installation were part of 'The Discovery of Interactive Spaces' project, a set of extracurricular worksho...

This paper introduces Q1Synth, an unprecedented musical instrument that produces sounds from (a) quantum state vectors representing the properties of a qubit, and (b) its measurements. The instrument is presented on a computer screen (or mobile device, such as a tablet or smartphone) as a Bloch sphere, which is a visual representation of a qubit. T...

Apps for making music on smartphones and tablets are widely used by professional and amateur musicians alike. Based on a qualitative study, this article describes how making music with apps affects users’ sense of self and emotion regulation in everyday life. It demonstrates that music apps are used in “technologies of the self,” that they shape mu...

This article introduces the validation of a Musical Identity Measure (MIM), developed to support individuals’ self-conceptions in relation to their musical activities (e.g., performance, composition, music technology). Initial model validation was carried out using a principal axis factor analysis with a diverse and international sample of 336 musi...

This article explores the technological affordances of vocal production software in performance through a case study of Shibuya Keīchirō's The End (2012). In the performance of this ‘humanless opera’, desires for pliability and fantasies of control are realised through the affordances of a singing voice synthesis software known as Vocaloid. By refl...

A techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking. “Musicking” encapsulates both the making of and perception of music, so it includes both active and passive forms of musical engagement. But at its core, it is a relationship between actions and sounds, between human bodies and musical instruments. Viewing musickin...

Tools and methodologies for distinguishing computer-generated melodies from human-composed melodies have a broad range of applications from detecting copyright infringement through the evaluation of generative music systems to facilitating transparent and explainable AI. This paper reviews a data challenge on distinguishing computer-generated melod...

O artigo apresenta um software, sendo a estação de trabalho de áudio digital Cakewalk by BandLab, e o site Cambridge Music Technology (sessão: The 'Mixing Secrets' Free Multitrack Download Library) como ferramentas com alto potencial educacional por serem de uso gratuito e com qualidade profissional, em termos do processo comercial de produção musi...

Adorno’s work, in particular the texts dealing with the relationship between music and social behaviors or structures, has been the target of criticism, especially in the second half of the 20th century, being considered by many to be generalist, dogmatic or even elitist. This work proposes the analysis of musical technologies not only as a set of...

There are young people in every country in the world. These play a major social role in every respect. Young people are usually understood to mean people between the ages of 12 and 30. Nevertheless, this age range can vary from one society to another. What actually characterizes youth is their behaviour, their looks, their feelings, but especially...

A challenge for educational professionals is how to know and understand a child. Given that each generation has a set of characteristics that are inextricably linked to the time and prevailing culture in which it grows up, it is essential in early childhood and preschool education to address children's current needs in a timely manner. Today's chil...

Immersive virtual musical instruments (IVMIs) lie at the intersection between music technology and virtual reality. Being both digital musical instruments (DMIs) and elements of virtual environments (VEs), IVMIs have the potential to transport the musician into a world of imagination and unprecedented musical expression. But when the final aim is t...

As is known, the most Indonesians have used digital technology in their daily lives, including in representing the art of music. As one of the adaptive educational institutions, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) is deemed necessary to further enhance the essence of music education that is integrated with digital technology. Based on the results o...

MDX Records is one of Indie Label which has published music albums both physically dan digitally located in Cimahi, West Java, Indonesia as the subject raised in this study. Comparing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Indie label business which is carried out in conventional and digital ways is aim of this study. Data collection stage by revi...

This book covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine learning, and signal processing.

The divergent use of digital technologies provides an important opportunity for students to develop critical and postdigital approaches to learning. Despite the rising accessibility of music technology, creatively composed sound is a relatively underexplored educational tool compared to the musical elements of melody, rhythm, and lyrics. Sound’s ab...

NuText is a novel music-encoding technology based on numbered musical notation. This paper outlines the notation principles of numbered musical notation and delineates the conversion relationship and encoding protocol between NuText and numbered musical notation. Furthermore, this study demonstrates NuText's playback software and its practical appl...

Este artículo revisa el estado del arte de las investigaciones que han evaluado hasta el momento las interacciones entre los humanos y las tecnologías musicales. El objetivo es estudiar cuántas de las investigaciones existentes en este campo han evaluado la singular interacción proactiva, creativa y expresiva de los usuarios tecnológicos, y cuántas...

Latin American (LATAM) contributions to Music Technology date back to the early 1940’s. However, as evidenced in historical analyses of NIME, the input from LATAM institutions to its proceedings is considerably low, even when the conference was recently held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Reflecting on this visible disparity and joining efforts as a grou...

The aim of this study is to examine the usability of distance education in vocational music education with SWOT analysis according to stakeholder views. For this purpose, the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats of distance vocational music education have been tried to discover. The study was designed with a phenomenological pattern,...

Purpose: Engagement with arts, recreation and leisure is highly valued by older adults, with positive links to their continued wellbeing. Despite an availability of new music technology, these devices are rarely designed with older adults in mind. This project explores the needs and preferences of older adults in residential care as they interact...

This paper is part of a special issue on Music Technology. Accurate estimation of glottal wave is an important method for singing voice analysis via voicing patterns. In this paper, an optimising method is proposed for automatic determination of vocal tract linear prediction analysis order that follows the specific situation of different voicing sc...

This paper is part of a special issue on Music Technology. We study the type recognition of traditional Chinese musical instrument audio in the common way. Using MEL spectrum characteristics as input, we train an 8‐layer convolutional neural network, and finally achieve 99.3% accuracy. After that, this paper mainly studies the performance skill rec...

Musical Technologies are the special words or the special Language used by the Musicians which is specific to Music. As the Herò or Heròine of Silappadhikӑram were singers and Experts in Yӑzh , the Music Terminologies are found in abundance in Silappadhikӑram. They are found in the form of Pan, Pӑlai, Musical Instruments , Musical Compositions and...

In the current music education, the music teaching method is too simple, boring, relatively backward, unable to attract the attention of the students, and the students gradually lose their interest in music courses. In basic education, music, as a highly practical subject, must create a good classroom atmosphere, make the classroom active, and enab...

Este artículo analiza el proceso creativo de composición musical de un pasaje de la serie brasileña de animación Oswaldo, exhibida desde 2017 y dirigida por Pedro Eboli y Antonio Linhares. Propongo investigar qué relaciones están implicadas en el proceso. Así, analizaremos, aunque brevemente, los principales procedimientos que componen la cadena de...

With the advent of digital technologies, the computer has become a generalized tool for music production. Music can be seen as a creative form of human–human communication via a computer, and therefore, research on human–computer and computer–human interfaces is very important. This paper, for the Sensors Special Issue on 800 Years of Research at P...

In the last two years, due to the pandemic and restrictive measures, the dependence of music creators and artists on the Internet, where they could promote their work, organize live streaming concerts, and talk to the public, has increased and expanded even more and seeks higher revenue from digital music platforms. An important issue that arises f...

Abstract: In this article, we explore explicit gendering in the manner in which voices are treated in music and audio and whether this relates to the specific function of the voice in a given context. Building on existing work on gender in singing, we explore the ways in which the voice is gendered through the use of voice production software. Spec...

Composers, producers and educators King Britt and Tara Rodgers discuss music technology history and pedagogy in the context of King Britt’s Blacktronika course at the University of California San Diego, which researches and celebrates Black artists and other artists of colour who are pioneers of electronic music genres. Conducted over email in June...

Popular music education involves engaging students with using a range of music technologies found in recording studios, through utilization of multiple hardware and software devices to enable the recording process. Student users can struggle to keep up with the volume of knowledge required to operate these environments to their full potential. Prov...

Science and Art Centers (SAC-BİLSEM) are educational institutions opened to make gifted students, educated under the Ministry of National Education, discover their individual talents and develop their capacities to use at the highest level after they are selected in art, music, and general mental ability. Different applications were made before 201...

Creating accessible events is a pressing issue for many music organisations. In the United States, the term accessibility has strong ties to disability, and it is an important concept because what is deemed accessible directly impacts who is included and excluded from music experiences. Music Community Lab (MCL) runs a series of events in New York...

This study focuses on music technological applications to music education in tertiary institutions in Delta and Edo States. The relevance of computer applications in music education has not received sufficient attention. It features some contributions of some scholars on relevant concepts, and empirical findings that have bearing to this study. It...

Although the use of AI technology for music production is still in its infancy, it has the potential to make a lasting impact on the way we produce music. In this paper we focus on the design and use of AI music tools for the production of contemporary Popular Music, in particular genres involving studio technology as part of the creative process....

After entering the digital era, digital music technology has prompted the rise of Internet companies. In the process, it seems that Internet music has made some breakthroughs in business models; yet essentially, it has not changed the way music content reaches users. In the past, different traditional and shallow machine learning techniques are use...

This project will outline some techniques for context-free grammar (CFGs). Specifically, our group will be looking at an application (Sonic System) that can be thought out as music technology. The objective is to build a system that can simplify the creation of complex musical generation by allowing users to create a generative CFG and then use it...

In the last decades, the vast development of emerging technologies has transformed the ways people engage with music, expanding the affordances of music expression, creation, learning, and education. Music production software allows artists to create songs collaboratively in digital contexts, not necessarily being in physical contact. Likewise, man...

In this groundbreaking handbook, Carola Werger, Marijke Groothuis, and Artur Jaschke investigate the various opportunities that music technology can bring to the profession, the field, and the development of music therapy in general. If we cannot master the instrument we play – here the music technology itself – we will not be able to help our clie...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has led music therapists across Australia and the world to rapidly adapt their practices to deliver music therapy interventions online. The sudden and broad uptake of technology in music therapy practice presents both challenges and opportunities for clinicians and their clients. As technology continues to evolve and ch...

Classroom practice around the globe has changed considerably due to the global pandemic. Although ICT (information and communication technology) is at the heart of 21st century teaching and learning, many teachers and students had to make significant adjustments shifting from face-to-face to remote (online) delivery in response to lockdowns and gov...

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of music technology on the attitudes and engage�ment level of preschool children. The desired outcome of the study is to formulate recommendations to improve the teaching curriculum through the use of physical activities at the preschool level. The strategy tested involved integrating technology, music, and i...

INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology In my work as a music therapist with people with developmental disabilities, music technology has come to be an integral part of my practice to support tacit musicality and spontaneous expression, develop and sustain relationships and facilitate connection and community in a variety of arenas...

This paper describes an educational experience realized in the form of extracurricular workshops involving music technology students of the “V. Gambara” music high school in Brescia (Italy). By means of a participatory prototyping experience, the project aimed at fostering the students awareness and understanding of technological means and their ut...

Timbre are commonly described using semantic descriptors such as ’dark’, ’bright’ and ’warm’. The use of such descriptors are useful and largely practiced by trained individuals in music related industries. Such descriptors are subjective as it could be interpreted differently by different individuals determined by factors such as training and expo...

- Whilst the use of music in health is an ancestral practice, the emergence of new technologies, more particularly artificial intelligence and machine learning, offers new capabilities for music creation and production as well as for diagnostic purposes and for the monitoring of treatment efficacy. It also makes possible completely new modes of col...

Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise a...

This article examines the concept of democratization and explains why it has been applied in unhelpful ways to the study of music. We focus on three examples to illustrate the real-world complexities involved in the adoption of new technologies that are often seen as democratic by dint of their widespread use. We argue for a close-reading of the pa...

This research investigated how children aged five to six performed in social interactions and participation by learning American English through music technology activities in an inclusive class. The purposes of this research were to analyze, through music technology activities, the social interactions and participation of children in the inclusive...

This PhD thesis investigates how a multiplicity of distinct styles of hip hop beats have materialised since hip hop music’s initial emergence from New York City in the 1970s. From the outset, I assert that the beat, that is, the musical component that might be thought of as the ‘backing track’ of a hip hop record or live performance, should be cons...

The past decade has seen increased interest in the pedagogical facets of audio engineering, sound design, music technology and related fields. Much of this rising interest in the teaching and learning aspects of sound corresponds to a growing number of institutions offering training options for people interested in the technical, creative, scientif...

This paper introduces an instrument recognition approach with the aid of audio loops. The aim is to show a basic instrument recognition recipe for music technology researchers by investigating whether the DAW-based audio loops can be an alternative to researched-based available libraries such as McGill University master samples, UIOWA samples, IRMA...

This paper presents a concise report on the research developed at the Laboratory of Audio and Music Technology at the EACH-USP. The laboratory was founded in 2011 targeting the areas of music technology, musical acoustics and bioacoustics, strengthening its scope in 2019 to the areas of sound and music computing and audio engineering. Six projects...

The digitization, analysis, and processing technology of music signals are the core of digital music technology. There is generally a preprocessing process before the music signal processing. The preprocessing process usually includes antialiasing filtering, digitization, preemphasis, windowing, and framing. Songs in the popular wav format and MP3...

Along with the evolution of music technology, a large number of styles, or "subgenres," of Electronic Dance Music(EDM) have emerged in recent years. While the classification task of distinguishing between EDM and non-EDM has been often studied in the context of music genre classification, little work has been done on the more challenging EDM subgen...

The 11th UbiMus — Ubiquitous Music Workshop (https://dei.fe.up.pt/ubimus/) was held at the Center for High Artistic Performance, the house of the Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos (OJM) in Portugal, during September 6–8, 2021. It was organized by the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Group of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC, Por...

Recent changes in consumer audio and music technology and distribution—for example the addition of 3D audio formats such as Dolby Atmos to music streaming services, the recent release of “Spatial Audio” on Apple and Beats products, the proliferation of musical content in virtual reality and 360o videos, etc.—have reignited a public discourse on con...

Digitization and analysis processing technology of music signals is the core of digital music technology. The paper studies the music signal feature recognition technology based on the mathematical equation inversion method, which is aimed at designing a method that can help music learners in music learning and music composition. The paper firstly...

This article introduces an experimental pedagogical methodology of Embodied Sonic Meditation to teach electronic music composition, improvisation, and technology in higher education. From UC Santa Barbara to the University of Colorado, from in-person teaching to online remote teaching, the author designed and taught a music technology and mindfulne...

This study investigates the status of music technology in composition undergraduate degree programs in universities in Turkey. It examines the approaches towards, and the place and importance of, music technology education in these degree programs through a survey that includes 16 questions targeted at educators who teach musical composition. Addit...

Book chapter about the DIY film exhibition practices of Japanese punk filmmaker Shozin Fukui, which mixed film projection and live music technologies to create an 'explosive sound screening' (bakuon joei). This was done to bring, in Fukui's words, a 'live feeling' to his films. The chapter historicises the emergence of Fukui's desire to bring 'live...

In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstream tendency, since approximately 2008, ecclesiastic and non-ecclesiastic actors alike have made musical arrangements of the Heart Sutra. What do these musical arrangements help us to understand about the formation of Buddhist religiosity in contempor...

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music / Consuming Technology, a ‘book about the role of recent digital technologies in the production of popular music…the industries that supply these technologies, the media that promote them, and the meanings they have for the musicians who use them’ (Théberge 1997: 5). A groun...

Today’s audio, visual, and internet technologies allow people to interact despite physical distances, for casual conversation, group workouts, or musical performance. Musical ensemble performance is unique because interaction integrity critically depends on the timing between each performer’s actions and when their acoustic outcomes arrive. Acousti...

In 2019, Dolby Atmos Music launched on Tidal HiFi and Amazon Prime Music HD, integrating 3D sound with music streaming services for the first time. This is one of several recent incursions by popular music into immersive and interactive mediums, which also includes technologies such as virtual reality and 360-degree video. As immersive productions...

This descriptive-exploratory work is part of a larger work carried out in Chile and Spain. Its objective has been to strengthen the technological training of future music teachers in secondary education through the design, implementation and evaluation of a subject in two consecutive cohorts (cohorts 2017 and 2018, n= 81) in a master at a Spanish u...

Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise a...

Despite the ever growing variety and popularity of commercially available electronic percussion (EP) instruments, there are still a significant number of active musicians who prefer to use acoustic drums. Digitally active drum (DAD) is an enhanced snare drum that provides sonic capabilities associated with digital musical instruments in the form of...

For years, creativity has been a topic of interest for scholars in psychology, human development, and the arts. Research on creativity has produced a growing body of literature in the art and science of music production. Correspondingly, the entertainment sector has undergone what business and entrepreneurship scholars refer to as disintermediation...

The search for new sound synthesis techniques has gained considerable impulse from the advances in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). From the concept of audio features , introduced by MIR, a new idea of sound synthesis has emerged based on the manipulation of high levels parameters , more directly involved with perceptual aspects of sound. In this...

La actividad profesional del músico no se circunscribe a la ejecución de piezas musicales, sino que el mercado laboral actual demanda un perfil profesional amplio donde las tecnologías de la información ocupan un lugar importante como herramienta de ejecución, de investigación y de difusión. La investigación aborda el análisis del contexto educativ...

This article aims to lay a foundation for learning and practicing music online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are growing as we are moving to online classes. Current music courses through MOOCs mostly focus on peer evaluation for assessing the students’ performance. However, this technique may not be practical when it is applied to larger cla...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of technology in music therapy and public health, focusing on the human–computer interaction and the cocreation of mental health. Foundational theory explaining the possible therapeutic dynamics that can occur when engaged in digital technology is presented, along with two case vignettes...

Inspired by claims that metal music production has become standardized, this article draws on interviews with eight internationally recognized producers examining whether a uniform methodology in recording metal exists and where creative freedom remains. The findings suggest that although recordists must abide by electroacoustic laws and metal musi...

In recent years, music technology in the classroom has relied on general devices such as the iPad. In the current study, we used a mixed-methods approach to examine the learning performance, learning experience, and behavior of two class groups of primary school music students (N = 42), using established music technology (i.e., the iPad with the Ke...

Recent works recognize musicality is based on and constrained by our cognitive and biological system. Taking in account a concept from cognitive science - cognitive offloading - as a principle for technology-supported musical activities, in this paper we discuss some principles (guidelines) to be taken into account when designing, developing and ev...

Sample libraries are one of the most popular music technologies in the modern world for the recreation of instruments in the digital environment.Sample library development is a rapidly growing branch of music technology. This article examines the stages of creating a library of a traditional Uzbek dutar. Particular attention is paid to methods for...

In recent years, the field of music therapy (MT) has increasingly embraced the use of technology for conducting therapy sessions and enhancing patient outcomes. Amidst a worldwide pandemic, we sought to examine whether this is now true to an even greater extent, as many music therapists have had to approach and conduct their work differently. The p...

Music in algorithmic culture

With the development of economy and science and technology, computer has become an indispensable tool for people to live and work. Entering a new development period, the rapid development of information technology makes the application of computer more and more extensive. Applying computer technology to music teaching in schools has important pract...

Music technology is known to have the ability to enhance creativity and creative development among students. A high level of engagement has been shown among students who studied and developed musical projects, and among students who were intellectually involved in the process of meaningful exploration. When students develop a music technology proje...

This article intends to provide a holistic review of Thor Magnusson's Sonic Writing, presenting the authors' historically-informed views about sound and music technologies. It starts by addressing the distinctions between the three categories of music-related inscriptions, in material, symbolic and signal form. It then reflects upon the parallelism...

The book presents selected papers at the 8th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held in November 2020, at Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art so...

Gear Acquisition Syndrome, also known as GAS, is commonly understood as the musicians’ unrelenting urge to buy and own instruments and equipment as an anticipated catalyst of creative energy and bringer of happiness. For many musicians, it involves the unavoidable compulsion to spend money one does not have on gear perhaps not even needed. The urge...

Determining the place of music computer technology in modern history requires a thorough consideration of musical processes and factors of the first half of the XX century, as well as the study of relevant discoveries, concepts and experiments in terms of new music technologies. The purpose of the article is to identify the patterns of development...