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We report an approach to obtaining complex networks with diverse topology, here called syntonets, taking into account the consonances and dissonances between notes as defined by scale temperaments. Though the fundamental frequency is…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Henrique Ferraz de Arruda

Mixing style transfer automates the generation of a multitrack mix for a given set of tracks by inferring production attributes from a reference song. However, existing systems for mixing style transfer are limited in that they often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Soumya Sai Vanka , Christian Steinmetz , Jean-Baptiste Rolland , Joshua Reiss , George Fazekas

The term melodic template or skeleton refers to a basic melody which is subject to variation during a music performance. In many oral music tradition, these templates are implicitly passed throughout generations without ever being…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Sergey Bereg , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher , Inmaculada Ventura

Device-guided music transfer adapts playback across unseen devices for users who lack them. Existing methods mainly focus on modifying the timbre, rhythm, harmony, or instrumentation to mimic genres or artists, overlooking the diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Manh Pham Hung , Changshuo Hu , Ting Dang , Dong Ma

Many music theoretical constructs (such as scale types, modes, cadences, and chord types) are defined in terms of pitch intervals---relative distances between pitches. Therefore, when computer models are employed in music tasks, it can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Stefan Lattner , Maarten Grachten , Gerhard Widmer

The creation of long melody sequences requires effective expression of coherent musical structure. However, there is no clear representation of musical structure. Recent works on music generation have suggested various approaches to deal…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi Zou , Pei Zou , Yi Zhao , Kaixiang Zhang , Ran Zhang , Xiaorui Wang

We describe a proof-of-principle implementation of a system for drawing melodies that abstracts away from a note-level input representation via melodic contours. The aim is to allow users to express their musical intentions without…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tashi Namgyal , Peter Flach , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

Symbolic music generation faces a fundamental trade-off between efficiency and quality. Fine-grained tokenizations achieve strong coherence but incur long sequences and high complexity, while compact tokenizations improve efficiency at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ting-Kang Wang , Chih-Pin Tan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Music transcription is the process of transcribing music audio into music notation. It is a field in which the machines still cannot beat human performance. The main motivation for automatic music transcription is to make it possible for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Bojan Sofronievski , Branislav Gerazov

The impossibility of a transposable 12 semitone tuning of the octave arises from the mathematical fact that $2 \times 2^{7/12} \neq 3$ i.e., the second harmonic of the fifth can not exactly match the third harmonic of the fundamental. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-14 X. Hernandez , Luis Nasser , Pablo Garcia-Valenzuela

The automated creation of accurate musical notation from an expressive human performance is a fundamental task in computational musicology. To this end, we present an end-to-end deep learning approach that constructs detailed musical scores…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tim Beyer , Angela Dai

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation employing low-resolution analog-to-digital convertors (ADCs) has emerged as a challenging and intriguing problem, particularly with the rise in popularity of large-scale arrays. The substantial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Junkai Ji , Wei Mao , Feng Xi , Shengyao Chen

This study aims to enhance the quality of music generation using Transformers by incorporating meta-information. While Transformer-based approaches are effective at capturing long-term dependencies in musical compositions, the music they…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shinnosuke Taksuka , Hideo Mukai

In the task of generating music, the art factor plays a big role and is a great challenge for AI. Previous work involving adversarial training to produce new music pieces and modeling the compatibility of variety in music (beats, tempo,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Abhinav Kaushal Keshari

Music holds a significant cultural role in social identity and in the encouragement of socialization. Technology, by the destruction of physical and cultural distance, has lead to many changes in musical themes and the complete loss of…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Munir Makhmutov , Joseph Alexander Brown , Manuel Mazzara , Leonard Johard

Music relies heavily on repetition to build structure and meaning. Self-reference occurs on multiple timescales, from motifs to phrases to reusing of entire sections of music, such as in pieces with ABA structure. The Transformer (Vaswani…

Machine-learning techniques have been recently used with spectacular results to generate artefacts such as music or text. However, these techniques are still unable to capture and generate artefacts that are convincingly structured. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Pierre Roy , Alexandre Papadopoulos , François Pachet

In the realm of music AI, arranging rich and structured multi-track accompaniments from a simple lead sheet presents significant challenges. Such challenges include maintaining track cohesion, ensuring long-term coherence, and optimizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang , Ye Wang

Transformer architectures offer significant advantages regarding the generation of symbolic music; their capabilities for incorporating user preferences toward what they generate is being studied under many aspects. This paper studies the…

This paper describes a data-driven framework to parse musical sequences into dependency trees, which are hierarchical structures used in music cognition research and music analysis. The parsing involves two steps. First, the input sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Francesco Foscarin , Daniel Harasim , Gerhard Widmer