Jom Kuriakose, Veena Suresh, Shrey Dutta, Hema A. Murthy, M. V. N. Murthy
{"title":"On the concept of Raga parentage in Carnatic music","authors":"Jom Kuriakose, Veena Suresh, Shrey Dutta, Hema A. Murthy, M. V. N. Murthy","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2251457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2251457","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The concept of <i>rāga</i> in Carnatic music is based on an ordered set of notes in an octave. Historically <i>rāgas</i> are broadly classified into two sets, namely <i>Janaka</i> (root/parent) and <i>Janya</i> (derived/offspring) <i>rāgas</i>. Every <i>janya rāga</i> is derived from a unique parent. We examine this classification critically and attempt to provide a quantitative basis for such a classification by defining a ‘distance’ between <i>rāgas</i>. The shortest identifies the parentage. Each <i>rāga</i> is defined by a pitch histogram vector in a 12-dimensional space. To achieve consensus, different distance metrics are used in the multi-dimensional space. Using a standard data set (refer to section 4.4), we carry out the distance analysis using entire compositions, which we subsequently fine-tune using only the parts of compositions that contain all the features of the <i>rāga</i>. We also perform an independent analysis for comparing the motif sequences in <i>rāgas</i>. We find that while the conventional method (refer to section 3) is fairly robust, there are exceptions, especially with pentatonic <i>rāgas</i>, and that these exceptions are actively debated in the public domain. Since quantitative methods find it difficult to achieve consensus, we conclude that while a <i>rāga</i> belongs to a family, it does not necessarily belong to a unique parent.</p>","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"78 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
René Silva Ponce, Juan Parra Cancino, Rodrigo F. Cádiz
{"title":"The Rebel Crank: redefining street barrel organs performance practice through physical gesture transgression","authors":"René Silva Ponce, Juan Parra Cancino, Rodrigo F. Cádiz","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2254287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2254287","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper redefines the performance practice of street barrel organs by transcending their conventional physical gestures beyond their role as mere music reproduction machines. We propose a new understanding of these instruments by establishing a parallel with how turntables started to be considered musical instruments through hand manipulation. Collaborating with Chilean organilleros, we experimented with the notion of ‘physical gesture transgression’ and explored creating new sounds through various body actions. We provide a list of ‘transgressive gestures,’ proposing expansions through instrument preparation or additional gestures, and how these new gestures can be annotated alongside traditional notation for other musical instruments.</p>","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"5 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining transposed makams in Turkish music through machine learning: classification of Rengidil-Neveser and Ruhnevaz-Buselik pieces","authors":"M. K. Karaosmanoglu, Esra Berkman, M. Berkman","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2240756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2240756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48875007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalised popular music generation using imitation and structure","authors":"Shuqi Dai, Xichu Ma, Ye Wang, Roger B. Dannenberg","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2166848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2166848","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many practices have been presented in music generation recently. While stylistic music generation using deep learning techniques has became the main stream, these models still struggle to generate music with high musicality, different levels of music structure, and controllability. In addition, more application scenarios such as music therapy require imitating more specific musical styles from a few given music examples, rather than capturing the overall genre style of a large data corpus. To address requirements that challenge current deep learning methods, we propose a statistical machine learning model that is able to capture and imitate the structure, melody, chord, and bass style from a given example seed song. An evaluation using 10 pop songs shows that our new representations and methods are able to create high-quality stylistic music that is similar to a given input song. We also discuss potential uses of our approach in music evaluation and music therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"18 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William M. Randall, Margarida Baltazar, Suvi Saarikallio
{"title":"Success in reaching affect self-regulation goals through everyday music listening","authors":"William M. Randall, Margarida Baltazar, Suvi Saarikallio","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2187310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2187310","url":null,"abstract":"While music listening on mobile phones can serve many affect-regulatory goals, success in reaching these goals is yet to be empirically assessed. This study aimed to determine how frequently listeners successfully reach their affect-regulatory goals, and the predictors of this success. Data were collected using the experience sampling app MuPsych, from 293 Finnish participants. Goals were successfully reached in less than half of cases, with adults more successful than adolescents. Success was determined largely within contexts, and strongly predicted by an initial low-valenced emotional state of the listener, suggesting that music listening is particularly useful for those in negative states.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"243 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48730953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolution of syncopation in twentieth-century American popular music","authors":"Joseph VanderStel, D. Temperley","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2223583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2223583","url":null,"abstract":"Several studies have found increases in syncopation within genres of twentieth-century popular music, but its evolution across the entire century has not been explored. In this study we use a new corpus of vocal melodies to examine trends in the use of syncopation. We find an increasing trend over the entire century. We also consider three ways of categorising syncopations into ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ forms, and find that the strong forms increase more rapidly and later in the century than the weak forms. We consider the implications of these trends and discuss further issues that are illuminated by our corpus.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"162 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47937043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on a method of conveying material sensations through sound effects","authors":"Zhexuan Wu, Wang Zhong","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2187311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2187311","url":null,"abstract":"Material sound effects are widely used in virtual reality and games to convey specific material sensations to the audience and improve the immersion experience. However, systematic research on parametrically controlling the material sensations evoked by sound effects is lacking. This study presents a new method of sound design regarding the control of parameters – pitch, waveform, attenuation time and artificial harmonics. The acoustic semantic experiments demonstrate that these sound effects can convey virtual material sensations with a 78% understanding rate with only auditory cues. This study can broaden our thinking regarding sound effects, music production and related disciplines .","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"121 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48546134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music in the moment: how twenty-four expert free form musicians experienced sense of agency and an improvisational state of mind","authors":"William Ashley Sol","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2192411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2192411","url":null,"abstract":"Study of musical improvisation has proven a significantly worthwhile topic of psychological and musicological research. This qualitative study asked: How do musicians experience sense of agency and state of mind while freely improvising? Twenty-four experts in free form music (Morris, 2012. Perpetual frontier: The properties of free music. Riti) performed short free improvisations that were explored via semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Participants reported low sense of agency, minimal conscious thought, and decisions experienced as body-doing or action guided by intuition, as well as moments of increased agency. Frequent reports of focused present-moment awareness suggest parallels between improvisation and mindfulness.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"203 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49399747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creative uses of low tech in Bamako recording studios (Mali)","authors":"E. Olivier, A. Pras","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2201242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2201242","url":null,"abstract":"In Mali, the introduction of 3G alongside growing access to digital audio technologies throughout the 2010s has led a sharp increase in the number of recording studios. Using an ethnography of Bamako studios, we establish a theoretical framework and a methodology to remap music production studies beyond the limits of a Northerncentric narrative. We discuss the notions of high, low and alt tech, and lofi and hifi within the 2010s’ recording studio literature. Drawing upon the description of a tradi-trap production, this paper contrasts local discourses and uses of globalized technologies to highlight the constraints and capabilities of studio practitioners.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"225 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42777774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gilberto Bernardes, Nádia Carvalho, Samuel Pereira
{"title":"FluidHarmony: Defining an equal-tempered and hierarchical harmonic lexicon in the Fourier space","authors":"Gilberto Bernardes, Nádia Carvalho, Samuel Pereira","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2202641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2202641","url":null,"abstract":"FluidHarmony is an algorithmic method for defining a hierarchical harmonic lexicon in equal temperaments. It utilizes an enharmonic weighted Fourier transform space to represent pitch class set (pcsets) relations. The method ranks pcsets based on user-defined constraints: the importance of interval classes (ICs) and a reference pcset. Evaluation of 5,184 Western musical pieces from the 16th to 20th centuries shows FluidHarmony captures 8% of the corpus's harmony in its top pcsets. This highlights the role of ICs and a reference pcset in regulating harmony in Western tonal music while enabling systematic approaches to define hierarchies and establish metrics beyond 12-TET.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"142 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44033893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}