{"title":"A model of large-scale thematic structure","authors":"Edward T. R. Hall, M. Pearce","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1930062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1930062","url":null,"abstract":"The coherent organisation of thematic material into large-scale structures within a composition is an important concept in both traditional and cognitive theories of music. However, empirical evidence supporting their perception is scarce. Providing a more nuanced approach, this paper introduces a computational model of hypothesised cognitive mechanisms underlying perception of large-scale thematic structure. Repetition detection based on statistical learning forms the model's foundation, hypothesising that predictability arising from repetition creates perceived thematic coherence. Measures are produced that characterise structural properties of a corpus of 623 monophonic compositions. Exploratory analysis reveals the extent to which these measures vary systematically and independently.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"220 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1930062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47217708","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":"Bright vowels are favoured on weak beats in popular music lyrics","authors":"Paolo Ammirante, J. Rovetti","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1936076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1936076","url":null,"abstract":"A previous study showed that ‘bright’ vowels (i.e. front vowels, which have higher second formants) are favoured for on-beat words in hip-hop music. Here we partially replicated these findings in a more diverse sample of pop songs from the Rolling Stone Corpus. Stressed monosyllables were classified by their vowel’s place of articulation and their metric position. Bright vowels were 9–13% more likely on weak (but not strong) beats and metric positions immediately surrounding than other metric positions. Favouring bright vowels on and surrounding weak beats may mitigate masking by the snare drum, which typically plays on weak beats.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"259 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1936076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45870878","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":"Musical robot swarms, timing, and equilibria","authors":"M. Krzyżaniak","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1910313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1910313","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies swarms of autonomous musical robots and its contributions are twofold. First, I introduce Dr. Squiggles, a simple rhythmic musical robot, which serves as a general platform for studying human-robot and robot-robot musical interaction. Secondly, I use three Dr. Squiggles robots to study what happens when musical robots listen to, learn from, and respond to one another while improvising music together. This paper has a supplementary video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN711HXPfuY which shows the three robots playing some of the equilibrium rhythms.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"279 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1910313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43388498","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":"A Finnish turn: Digital and synthesiser musical instruments","authors":"D. Ihde","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1906709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1906709","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will follow a musically experimental trajectory from non-mediated musical sound through many centuries of musical innovation from the simplest forms of resonation to today’s synthesised musics in electronic – digital and synthesiser musics – with side looks at how changes in musical technologies play roles in the player-instrument and listener-music relations. I shall then look briefly at the modern, electric amplification of ‘electric’ instruments and much ‘louder’ musics with their equally radical changes in audience-performance situations. Finally, then, I will turn to electronic variants, which yet again drastically change the musical gestalt of player-instrument and listener-music relations.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"165 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1906709","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42934064","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":"Ever-shifting roles in building, composing and performing with digital musical instruments","authors":"Koray Tahiroglu","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1900275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1900275","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely accepted that computational technologies shape the relationship of musicians, instrument builders and composers with music, affecting various socio-cultural realisms in music. In this article, I discuss in what ways music-making still emerges as a social construct, even as a result of the mutual cooperation with human musicians and AI-powered autonomous instruments. I argue that building, making, and performing with a digital musical instrument has undergone a gradual socio-technological change that has affected art, science, technology, culture and communities in general. I support my investigation through the current performance and composition practice of the autonomous AI-terity musical instrument.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"155 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1900275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45252462","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":"Curating experience: Composition as cultural technology – a conversation","authors":"Claudia Molitor, Thor Magnusson","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1898646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1898646","url":null,"abstract":"This conversation between Thor Magnusson and Claudia Molitor introduces the idea of composition as cultural technology, where compositions are understood as systems that create spaces within which ‘things’ can occur and can be explored. In this conception of composition, the composer becomes the curator of an experience for an audience, shifting the focus of the work on the encounter of the audience. Talking about some of Molitor’s pieces from the past decade, the discussion explores how these ideas can manifest in compositional practice.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"184 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1898646","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44397050","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":"Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instruments","authors":"Koray Tahiroglu, Thor Magnusson","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1907421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1907421","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue, arising from a symposium in Helsinki in 2019, presents contributions from a diverse group of practitioners, representing a broad range of approaches in the making, thinking and writing about digital musical instruments. The authors consider the socio-cultural role of technology in current and emerging digital music practices with changing social roles, historical and critical reflections. This introduction explains the context and motivation for the issue and summarises the contribution of each of the eight articles. Together they provide what we believe is a unique contribution to the research of new interfaces for musical expression and related areas.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"117 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1907421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42319774","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":"Digital anthropology meets multisensory listening","authors":"Taina Riikonen","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1898647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1898647","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I will discuss listening to binaural recordings of Helsinki metro tunnels through the concepts of digital anthropology and naftology, the philosophy of the experience of oil. The digital is understood in this context as material culture and also as a constitutive part of corporeality. By conceptualising binaural recordings both as instrument and device for sensing the sonic environments, I argue that the acoustic epistemologies within the digital material culture will produce relevant knowledge on sensing and experiencing the changing environments.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"190 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1898647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47992621","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":"Embodiment through digital intangibility: Infrastructures of musicking","authors":"Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1899248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1899248","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the sonic experiences of the listener in digital environments by using a Bluetooth speaker as an example. It discusses how the everyday use of a speaker highlights human beings’ material and multi-sensory situatedness in digital environments. Based on the analytical approaches concerning embodiment, movement, and infrastructures, the paper aims to develop further the idea of musicking in everyday life contexts. It suggests that in addition to the social importance of music, the material approach to musicking reveals new political and ethical questions, especially those concerning the power of code and planetary sustainability.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"147 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1899248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45113001","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 migration of musical instruments: On the socio-technological conditions of musical evolution","authors":"Thor Magnusson","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1907420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1907420","url":null,"abstract":"Music technologies reflect the most advanced human technologies in most historical periods. Examples range from 40 thousand years old bone flutes found in caves in the Swabian Jura, through ancient Greek water organs or medieval Arabic musical automata, to today’s electronic and digital instruments with deep learning. Music technologies incorporate the musical ideas of a time and place and they disseminate those ideas when adopted by other musical cultures. This article explores how contemporary music technologies are culturally conditioned and applies the concept of ethno-organology to describe the nature of migration of instruments between musical cultures.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"175 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1907420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47373776","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}