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Rhythm in Acousmatic Music [PDF]

open access: yesOrganised Sound, 2020
‘Rhythm’ is often equated with ‘metered pulse’; as the latter is often eschewed by contemporary music, including acousmatic music, this is often assumed to mean an absence of rhythm. This article proposes that, in fact, acousmatic music does indeed contain rhythmic qualities, and further, that rhythm is one of the dominating forces of acousmatic music,
openaire   +1 more source

The sensation of groove is affected by the interaction of rhythmic and harmonic complexity.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
The pleasurable desire to move to music, also known as groove, is modulated by rhythmic complexity. How the sensation of groove is influenced by other musical features, such as the harmonic complexity of individual chords, is less clear. To address this,
Tomas E Matthews   +4 more
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Perception of 'Back-Channeling' Nonverbal Feedback in Musical Duo Improvisation. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
In witnessing face-to-face conversation, observers perceive authentic communication according to the social contingency of nonverbal feedback cues ('back-channeling') by non-speaking interactors.
Nikki Moran   +3 more
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Beat histogram features from NMF-based novelty functions for music classification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper we present novel rhythm features derived from drum tracks extracted from polyphonic music and evaluate them in a genre classification task. Musical excerpts are analyzed using an optimized, partially fixed Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (
Lerch, Alexander   +2 more
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Serial binary interval ratios improve rhythm reproduction

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
Musical rhythm perception is a natural human ability that involves complex cognitive processes. Rhythm refers to the organization of events in time, and musical rhythms have an underlying hierarchical metrical structure.
Xiang eWu   +3 more
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Three Things Linguists Need to Know About Rhythm and Time in Music

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2012
This paper, directed at researchers in linguistics, introduces three key aspects of musical rhythm and time for their consideration: (1) the distinction between groups of durations (i.e., acoustical events in the world) and our endogenous sense of beats ...
Justin London
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Using the beat histogram for speech rhythm description and language identification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper we present a novel approach for the description of speech rhythm and the extraction of rhythm-related features for automatic language identification (LID).
Lykartsis, Athanasios, Weinzierl, Stefan
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Emotions in Music. An Overview of Musical Expressive Qualities

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2016
What does it mean to say that a particular melody is cheerful rather than melancholic, or that a musical rhythm is anxious and nervous rather than peaceful and calm? Which kind of qualities are these?
Francesca Forlè, Daniela Perani
doaj   +1 more source

An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
An evaluation of earcons was carried out to seee whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An initial experiment showed that earcons were better than unstructured bursts of sound and that musical timbres were more ...
Brewster, S.A.   +2 more
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Electronic Dance Music in Narrative Film [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
As a growing number of filmmakers are moving away from the traditional model of orchestral underscoring in favor of a more contemporary approach to film sound, electronic dance music (EDM) is playing an increasingly important role in current soundtrack ...
Filoseta, Roberto
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