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Musical Metacreation tries to obtain creative behaviors from computers algorithms composing music. In this paper I briefly analyze how this field evolved from algorithmic composition to be focused on the search for creativity, and I point…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Filippo Carnovalini

Music generated by deep learning methods often suffers from a lack of coherence and long-term organization. Yet, multi-scale hierarchical structure is a distinctive feature of music signals. To leverage this information, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Manvi Agarwal , Changhong Wang , Gaël Richard

Art is the ultimate expression of human creativity that is deeply influenced by the philosophy and culture of the corresponding historical epoch. The quantitative analysis of art is therefore essential for better understanding human…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-19 Higor Y. D. Sigaki , Matjaz Perc , Haroldo V. Ribeiro

In a context of increasing scientific specialization and deficiencies in the scientific literacy of the population, there arises a need to broaden the methods of scientific dissemination. This study proposes an approach that combines music…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-22 Carlos Darío Badilla Cerdas

When presented with information of any type, from music to language to mathematics, the human mind subconsciously arranges it into a network. A network puts pieces of information like musical notes, syllables or mathematical concepts into…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-10 Sophia U. David , Sophie E. Loman , Christopher W. Lynn , Ann S. Blevins , Danielle S. Bassett

Despite the central role that melody plays in music perception, it remains an open challenge in music information retrieval to reliably detect the notes of the melody present in an arbitrary music recording. A key challenge in melody…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Chris Donahue , John Thickstun , Percy Liang

This paper examines how musical symbolism is produced and circulated in online communities by combining content-based music analysis with a lightweight network perspective on lyrics. Using a curated corpus of 275 chart-topping songs…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kajwan Ziaoddini

We present an end-to-end system for musical key estimation, based on a convolutional neural network. The proposed system not only out-performs existing key estimation methods proposed in the academic literature; it is also capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Filip Korzeniowski , Gerhard Widmer

Homophily, ranging from demographics to sentiments, breeds connections in social networks, either offline or online. However, with the prosperous growth of music streaming service, whether homophily exists in online music listening remains…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Zhenkun Zhou , Ke Xu , Jichang Zhao

Despite advances in deep algorithmic music generation, evaluation of generated samples often relies on human evaluation, which is subjective and costly. We focus on designing a homogeneous, objective framework for evaluating samples of…

Despite the common misconception of nearly static organisms, plants do interact continuously with the environment and with each other. It is fair to assume that during their evolution they developed particular features to overcome problems…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-19 Gianna Vivaldo , Elisa Masi , Camilla Pandolfi , Stefano Mancuso , Guido Caldarelli

The representation of basic elements of music in terms of discrete audio signals is often used in software for musical creation and design. Nevertheless, there is no unified approach that relates these elements to the discrete samples of…

Large language models (LLMs) excel at modeling relationships between strings in natural language and have shown promise in extending to other symbolic domains like coding or mathematics. However, the extent to which they implicitly model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Andrew Shin , Kunitake Kaneko

When dealing with evolving or multi-dimensional complex systems, network theory provides with elegant ways of describing their constituting components, through respectively time-varying and multi-layer complex networks. Nevertheless, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-13 Massimiliano Zanin , Ernestina Menasalvas , Xiaoqian Sun , Sebastian Wandelt

Music genres allow to categorize musical items that share common characteristics. Although these categories are not mutually exclusive, most related research is traditionally focused on classifying tracks into a single class. Furthermore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Sergio Oramas , Oriol Nieto , Francesco Barbieri , Xavier Serra

Despite its potential, AI advances in music education are hindered by proprietary systems that limit the democratization of technology in this domain. In particular, AI-driven music difficulty adjustment is especially promising, as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pedro Ramoneda , Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro , Dasaem Jeong , Xavier Serra

Network science is an interdisciplinary endeavor, with methods and applications drawn from across the natural, social, and information sciences. A prominent problem in network science is the algorithmic detection of tightly-connected groups…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-07-14 Peter J. Mucha , Thomas Richardson , Kevin Macon , Mason A. Porter , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

At present, neural network models show powerful sequence prediction ability and are used in many automatic composition models. In comparison, the way humans compose music is very different from it. Composers usually start by creating…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yutian Wang , Wanyin Yang , Zhenrong Dai , Yilong Zhang , Kun Zhao , Hui Wang

Symbolic Music Generation relies on the contextual representation capabilities of the generative model, where the most prevalent approach is the Transformer-based model. The learning of musical context is also related to the structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guowei Wu , Shipei Liu , Xiaoya Fan

Music genre classification is one of the trending topics in regards to the current Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Research. Since, the dependency of genre is not only limited to the audio profile, we also make use of textual content…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Manish Agrawal , Abhilash Nandy