We present Piano Genie, an intelligent controller which allows non-musicians to improvise
on the piano. With Piano Genie, a user performs on a simple interface with eight buttons …

Music semantics is embodied, in the sense that meaning is biologically mediated by and
grounded in the human body and brain. This embodied cognition perspective also explains …

Melodic contour is central to our ability to perceive and produce music. We propose to
represent melodic contours as a combination of cosine functions, using the discrete cosine …

Existing kinematic research on orchestral conducting movement contributes to beat-tracking
and the delivery of performance dynamics. Methodologically, such movement cues have …

Humans are a musical species: we sing, dance, play, or listen, no matter where we are from.
To understand why, musicologists have long studied the rich diversity of musical traditions …

Music semantics is embodied, in the sense that meaning is biologically mediated by and
grounded in the human body and brain. This embodied cognition perspective also explains …

Despite the ubiquity of computers leading to a steady increase in global music consumption,
computing has yet to fundamentally transform the capacity for non-musicians to engage with …