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To stretch a music piece to a given length is a common demand in people's daily lives, e.g., in audio-video synchronization and animation production. However, it is not always guaranteed that the stretched music piece is acceptable for…

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Many of the music generation systems based on neural networks are fully autonomous and do not offer control over the generation process. In this research, we present a controllable music generation system in terms of tonal tension. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Rui Guo , Ivor Simpson , Thor Magnusson , Chris Kiefer , Dorien Herremans

We present an acoustic musical instrument played through a resonance model of another sound. The resonance model is controlled in real time as part of the composite instrument. Our implementation uses an electric violin, whose spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Camille Goudeseune , Guy Garnett , Timothy Johnson

We present Piano Genie, an intelligent controller which allows non-musicians to improvise on the piano. With Piano Genie, a user performs on a simple interface with eight buttons, and their performance is decoded into the space of plausible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Chris Donahue , Ian Simon , Sander Dieleman

The electroencephalographic (EEG) data intracerebrally recorded from 20 epileptic humans with different brain origins of focal epilepsies or types of seizures, ages and sexes are investigated (nearly 700 million data). Multi channel…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 Caglar Tuncay

Non-equilibrium random fluctuations of non-thermal nature are a salient feature of active matter. In this work, we consider the collective excitations of active systems at high density, focusing on a one-dimensional chain of elastically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

To achieve a flexible recommendation and retrieval system, it is desirable to calculate music similarity by focusing on multiple partial elements of musical pieces and allowing the users to select the element they want to focus on. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

To many people, music is a mystery. It is uniquely human, because no other species produces elaborate, well organized sound for no particular reason. It has been part of every known civilization on earth. It has become a very part of man's…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 James Q. Feng

Music Emotion Recognition involves the automatic identification of emotional elements within music tracks, and it has garnered significant attention due to its broad applicability in the field of Music Information Retrieval. It can also be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kexin Zhu , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

This review examines the roles of adaptation and synchronization in music performance, drawing on concepts from complex systems theory to understand the dynamic interactions between musicians, music, and listeners. Adaptation is explored…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-08 Jakub Sawicki

Audio-to-score alignment is a long-standing challenge in music information retrieval and arguably the most widely applicable alignment task for music research. Alignment algorithms match two versions of a piece of music, and for this to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Silvan Peter , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

Spectral characterization of noise environments that lead to the decoherence of qubits is critical to developing robust quantum technologies. While dynamical decoupling offers one of the most successful approaches to characterize noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Arian Vezvaee , Nanako Shitara , Shuo Sun , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

In Music Information Retrieval (MIR), modeling and transforming the tone of musical instruments, particularly electric guitars, has gained increasing attention due to the richness of the instrument tone and the flexibility of expression.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Kuan-Yu Chen , Kuan-Lin Chen , Yu-Chieh Yu , Jian-Jiun Ding

Time-reversal symmetry breaking is a key feature of nearly all natural sounds, caused by the physics of sound production. While attention has been paid to the response of the auditory system to "natural stimuli," very few psychophysical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-04 Jacob N. Oppenheim , Pavel Isakov , Marcelo O. Magnasco

Designing and optimizing ion optical systems is often a complex and difficult task, which requires the use of computational tools to iterate and converge towards the desired characteristics and performances of the system. Very often these…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel Bazin

We use Google's MusicVAE, a Variational Auto-Encoder with a 512-dimensional latent space to represent a few bars of music, and organize the latent dimensions according to their relevance in describing music. We find that, on average, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Gabriela Barenboim , Luigi Del Debbio , Johannes Hirn , Veronica Sanz

Musical audio is generally composed of three physical properties: frequency, time and magnitude. Interestingly, human auditory periphery also provides neural codes for each of these dimensions to perceive music. Inspired by these intrinsic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shuai Yu , Xiaoheng Sun , Yi Yu , Wei Li

Entropies must correspond to mean values for them to be measurable. The Shannon entropy corresponds to the weighted arithmetic mean, whereas the Renyi entropy corresponds to the exponential mean. These means refer to code lengths, which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-25 B. H. Lavenda

When musicians perform in an ensemble, synchronizing to a mutual pace is the foundation of their musical interaction. Clock generators, e.g., metronomes, or drum machines, might assist such synchronization, but these means, in general, will…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-07 Simon Linke , Rolf Bader , Robert Mores

This paper describes a preliminary approach to algorithmically reproduce the archetypical structure adopted by humans to classify sounds. In particular, we propose an approach to predict the human perceived chaos/order level in a sound and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Eric Guizzo , Alberto Novello