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Research paper thumbnail of How blue is Mozart? Non verbal sensory scales for describing music qualities

Studies on the perception of musical qualities (such as induced or perceived emotions, performanc... more Studies on the perception of musical qualities (such as induced or perceived emotions, performance styles, or tim-bre nuances) make a large use of verbal descriptors. Although many authors noted that particular musical qualities can hardly be described by means of verbal labels, few studies have tried alternatives. This paper aims at exploring the use of non verbal sensory labels, in order to represent different perceived qualities in Western classical music. Musically trained and untrained listeners were required to listen to 6 musical excerpts in major key and to evaluate them from a sensorial and semantic point of view (Experiment 1). The same experiment (Experiment 2) was proposed to musically trained and untrained listeners who were required to listen to 6 musical excerpts all in minor key. The overall findings indicate that subjects' rates on non verbal sensory scales are throughout consistent and the results support the hypothesis that sensory scales can convey some specific sensations that cannot be described verbally, offering interesting insights to deepen our knowledge on the relationship between music and other sensorial experiences.

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Research paper thumbnail of Audio-Video Analysis of Musical Expressive Intentions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011

ABSTRACT This paper presents a preliminary study on the relation between audio-video streams and ... more ABSTRACT This paper presents a preliminary study on the relation between audio-video streams and high-level information related to expressive nuances. A violinist was asked to play three musical excerpts several times, each one inspired by one of nine different expressive intentions. Perceptual tests was carried out using both audio-only and audio-visual recordings of the performances. The results demonstrate that the visual component aids the subjects to better recognize the different expressive intentions of the musical performances, showing that the fusion of audio-visual information can significantly improve the degree of recognition given by single means.

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Research paper thumbnail of Symbolic and audio processing to change the expressive intention of a recorded music performance

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Research paper thumbnail of Pavarotti Sings Again: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Active Preservation of the Audio Collection at the Arena di Verona

Journal of New Music Research, 2013

ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the research project REVIVAL (2009–2012), aimed at ... more ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the research project REVIVAL (2009–2012), aimed at the development of a hardware/software platform to support the preservation of the audio collection of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, with a special attention on protocols and tools for quality control. The most significant achievements of the project are (i) the set up of a working environment inside the archive; (ii) the knowledge transfer to the archival personnel; (iii) the realization of chemical analyses on magnetic tapes; (iv) the development of software tools. On the cultural side: the recovery of unique copies of unpublished live recordings of artists the caliber of Domingo and Pavarotti.

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Research paper thumbnail of Adding expressiveness in musical performance in real time

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999

Musical performance introduces some deviations from nominal values specified in the score. Music ... more Musical performance introduces some deviations from nominal values specified in the score. Music reproduced without such variations is usually perceived as mechanical. Most investigations explore how the musical structure influences the performance. There are a few studies on how the musician's expressive intentions are reflected in the performance. The purpose of this work is to develop a model for the expressive modification in real time of musical performance. Perceptual analyses were conducted on some performances played with different intentions (correlated with a set of sensorial adjectives). From these analyses, two distinct expressive directions were observed: the first one correlated with “energy” and the second one with the “kinetics” of the pieces. The two-dimensional space (perceptual Parametric Space, PPS) obtained represents how the subjects arranged the pieces in their own minds. Acoustical analysis allowed us to correlate the expressive directions of the PPS with the main acoustic parameters. Each point of PPS is therefore associated with a set of acoustic parameters. Analysis-by-synthesis method was used to validate the model. In order to carry out computer generated performances, we developed a real time software

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Research paper thumbnail of Preserving today for tomorrow: A case study of an archive of Interactive Music Installations

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Research paper thumbnail of Music Systemisers and Music Empathisers–Do they rate expressiveness of computer generated performances the same?

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Research paper thumbnail of An Abstract Control Space for Communication of Sensory Expressive Intentions in Music Performance

Journal of New Music Research, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Audio Morphing Different Expressive Intentions for Multimedia Systems

Web Extras: Sample audio files and view a demo of the audio authoring tool.Download Real Jukebox ... more Web Extras: Sample audio files and view a demo of the audio authoring tool.Download Real Jukebox for listening to the mp3 filesSonatina in sol (by Beethoven) played neutral (without any expressive intentions)Expressive performance of Sonatina in sol generated by the model in a symbolic way (that is, as a MIDI file)Sonata K545 (by Mozart) played neutral (without any expressive intentions)Expressive performance of Sonata K545 generated by the model in a symbolic way (that is, as a MIDI file)Expressive performance of Sonata in A Major Op. V(by Corelli) generated by the audio authoring tool (using the audio postprocessing tool)

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Research paper thumbnail of Entertaining listening by means of the Stanza Logo-Motoria: an Interactive Multimodal Environment

Entertainment Computing, 2013

ABSTRACT This article presents an Interactive Multimodal Environment (IME), the Stanza Logo-Motor... more ABSTRACT This article presents an Interactive Multimodal Environment (IME), the Stanza Logo-Motoria, designed to support learning in primary schools. In particular we describe the use of this system as a tool (a) to practice listening to English as a Second Language (ESL) and (b) to enable children with severe disabilities to perform an interactive listening. We document the ongoing experimentation of the Stanza Logo-Motoria in ESL lessons and report its encouraging results. Moreover, we explain how it may be possible, by means of the Stanza Logo-Motoria, to redesign traditional learning environments in order to allow pupils to experience listening as an active and engaging experience.

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Research paper thumbnail of Adding expressiveness to musical messages

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Expressive morphing for interactive performance of musical scores

Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001, 2001

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Research paper thumbnail of Physical movement and musical gestures: a multilevel mapping strategy

Musical interpretations are often the result of a wide range of requirements on expressiveness re... more Musical interpretations are often the result of a wide range of requirements on expressiveness rendering and techni- cal skills. Aspects indicated by the term expressive in- tention and which refer to the communication of moods and feelings, are being considered more and more impor- tant in performer-computer interaction during music per- formance. Recent studies demonstrate the possibility of conveying different

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Research paper thumbnail of EXPRESSIVE DIRECTOR: A SYSTEM FOR THE REAL-TIME CONTROL OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE SYNTHESIS

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Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Individual Difference in Judging Expressiveness of Computer-Assisted Music Performances by Experts

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Clustering Affective Qualities of Classical Music: Beyond the Valence-Arousal Plane

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Learning by Means of an Interactive Multimodal Environment

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Research paper thumbnail of Toward an automatically generated soundtrack from low-level cross-modal correlations for automotive scenarios

Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia - MM '10, 2010

... Anna Pesarin Università degli Studi di Verona Strada le Grazie 15 37134 Verona, Italy anna.pe... more ... Anna Pesarin Università degli Studi di Verona Strada le Grazie 15 37134 Verona, Italy anna.pesarin@univr.it Carlo Drioli Università degli Studi di Verona Strada le Grazie 15 37134 Verona, Italy carlo.drioli@univr.it Vittorio Murino † ...

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Research paper thumbnail of CaRo 2.0: An Interactive System for Expressive Music Rendering

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of How blue is Mozart? Non verbal sensory scales for describing music qualities

Studies on the perception of musical qualities (such as induced or perceived emotions, performanc... more Studies on the perception of musical qualities (such as induced or perceived emotions, performance styles, or tim-bre nuances) make a large use of verbal descriptors. Although many authors noted that particular musical qualities can hardly be described by means of verbal labels, few studies have tried alternatives. This paper aims at exploring the use of non verbal sensory labels, in order to represent different perceived qualities in Western classical music. Musically trained and untrained listeners were required to listen to 6 musical excerpts in major key and to evaluate them from a sensorial and semantic point of view (Experiment 1). The same experiment (Experiment 2) was proposed to musically trained and untrained listeners who were required to listen to 6 musical excerpts all in minor key. The overall findings indicate that subjects' rates on non verbal sensory scales are throughout consistent and the results support the hypothesis that sensory scales can convey some specific sensations that cannot be described verbally, offering interesting insights to deepen our knowledge on the relationship between music and other sensorial experiences.

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Research paper thumbnail of Audio-Video Analysis of Musical Expressive Intentions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011

ABSTRACT This paper presents a preliminary study on the relation between audio-video streams and ... more ABSTRACT This paper presents a preliminary study on the relation between audio-video streams and high-level information related to expressive nuances. A violinist was asked to play three musical excerpts several times, each one inspired by one of nine different expressive intentions. Perceptual tests was carried out using both audio-only and audio-visual recordings of the performances. The results demonstrate that the visual component aids the subjects to better recognize the different expressive intentions of the musical performances, showing that the fusion of audio-visual information can significantly improve the degree of recognition given by single means.

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Research paper thumbnail of Symbolic and audio processing to change the expressive intention of a recorded music performance

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Research paper thumbnail of Pavarotti Sings Again: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Active Preservation of the Audio Collection at the Arena di Verona

Journal of New Music Research, 2013

ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the research project REVIVAL (2009–2012), aimed at ... more ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the research project REVIVAL (2009–2012), aimed at the development of a hardware/software platform to support the preservation of the audio collection of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, with a special attention on protocols and tools for quality control. The most significant achievements of the project are (i) the set up of a working environment inside the archive; (ii) the knowledge transfer to the archival personnel; (iii) the realization of chemical analyses on magnetic tapes; (iv) the development of software tools. On the cultural side: the recovery of unique copies of unpublished live recordings of artists the caliber of Domingo and Pavarotti.

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Research paper thumbnail of Adding expressiveness in musical performance in real time

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999

Musical performance introduces some deviations from nominal values specified in the score. Music ... more Musical performance introduces some deviations from nominal values specified in the score. Music reproduced without such variations is usually perceived as mechanical. Most investigations explore how the musical structure influences the performance. There are a few studies on how the musician's expressive intentions are reflected in the performance. The purpose of this work is to develop a model for the expressive modification in real time of musical performance. Perceptual analyses were conducted on some performances played with different intentions (correlated with a set of sensorial adjectives). From these analyses, two distinct expressive directions were observed: the first one correlated with “energy” and the second one with the “kinetics” of the pieces. The two-dimensional space (perceptual Parametric Space, PPS) obtained represents how the subjects arranged the pieces in their own minds. Acoustical analysis allowed us to correlate the expressive directions of the PPS with the main acoustic parameters. Each point of PPS is therefore associated with a set of acoustic parameters. Analysis-by-synthesis method was used to validate the model. In order to carry out computer generated performances, we developed a real time software

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Research paper thumbnail of Preserving today for tomorrow: A case study of an archive of Interactive Music Installations

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Research paper thumbnail of Music Systemisers and Music Empathisers–Do they rate expressiveness of computer generated performances the same?

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Research paper thumbnail of An Abstract Control Space for Communication of Sensory Expressive Intentions in Music Performance

Journal of New Music Research, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Audio Morphing Different Expressive Intentions for Multimedia Systems

Web Extras: Sample audio files and view a demo of the audio authoring tool.Download Real Jukebox ... more Web Extras: Sample audio files and view a demo of the audio authoring tool.Download Real Jukebox for listening to the mp3 filesSonatina in sol (by Beethoven) played neutral (without any expressive intentions)Expressive performance of Sonatina in sol generated by the model in a symbolic way (that is, as a MIDI file)Sonata K545 (by Mozart) played neutral (without any expressive intentions)Expressive performance of Sonata K545 generated by the model in a symbolic way (that is, as a MIDI file)Expressive performance of Sonata in A Major Op. V(by Corelli) generated by the audio authoring tool (using the audio postprocessing tool)

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Research paper thumbnail of Entertaining listening by means of the Stanza Logo-Motoria: an Interactive Multimodal Environment

Entertainment Computing, 2013

ABSTRACT This article presents an Interactive Multimodal Environment (IME), the Stanza Logo-Motor... more ABSTRACT This article presents an Interactive Multimodal Environment (IME), the Stanza Logo-Motoria, designed to support learning in primary schools. In particular we describe the use of this system as a tool (a) to practice listening to English as a Second Language (ESL) and (b) to enable children with severe disabilities to perform an interactive listening. We document the ongoing experimentation of the Stanza Logo-Motoria in ESL lessons and report its encouraging results. Moreover, we explain how it may be possible, by means of the Stanza Logo-Motoria, to redesign traditional learning environments in order to allow pupils to experience listening as an active and engaging experience.

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Research paper thumbnail of Adding expressiveness to musical messages

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Expressive morphing for interactive performance of musical scores

Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001, 2001

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Research paper thumbnail of Physical movement and musical gestures: a multilevel mapping strategy

Musical interpretations are often the result of a wide range of requirements on expressiveness re... more Musical interpretations are often the result of a wide range of requirements on expressiveness rendering and techni- cal skills. Aspects indicated by the term expressive in- tention and which refer to the communication of moods and feelings, are being considered more and more impor- tant in performer-computer interaction during music per- formance. Recent studies demonstrate the possibility of conveying different

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Research paper thumbnail of Audio Morphing Different Expressive Intentions for Multimedia Systems

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Research paper thumbnail of EXPRESSIVE DIRECTOR: A SYSTEM FOR THE REAL-TIME CONTROL OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE SYNTHESIS

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Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Individual Difference in Judging Expressiveness of Computer-Assisted Music Performances by Experts

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Clustering Affective Qualities of Classical Music: Beyond the Valence-Arousal Plane

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Learning by Means of an Interactive Multimodal Environment

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Research paper thumbnail of Toward an automatically generated soundtrack from low-level cross-modal correlations for automotive scenarios

Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia - MM '10, 2010

... Anna Pesarin Università degli Studi di Verona Strada le Grazie 15 37134 Verona, Italy anna.pe... more ... Anna Pesarin Università degli Studi di Verona Strada le Grazie 15 37134 Verona, Italy anna.pesarin@univr.it Carlo Drioli Università degli Studi di Verona Strada le Grazie 15 37134 Verona, Italy carlo.drioli@univr.it Vittorio Murino † ...

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Research paper thumbnail of CaRo 2.0: An Interactive System for Expressive Music Rendering

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2015

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