Digital methods are increasingly applied to store, structure and analyse vast amounts of
musical data. In this context, visualization plays a crucial role, as it assists musicologists and …

A major obstacle in the appreciation of classical music is that extensive training is required
to understand musical structure and compositional techniques toward comprehending the …

We propose a new paradigm for searching for sound by allowing users to graphically sketch
their mental representation of sound as query. By conducting interviews with professional …

Searching through a large audio database for a specific sound can be a slow and tedious
task with detrimental effects on creative workflow. Listening to each sample is time …

This paper presents" Lyricon", a technique that automatically selects multiple icons of tunes
block-by-block, and effectively displays the icons. Here, Lyricon selects icons based on not …

Practical experience with audio effects as well as knowledge of their parameters and how
they change the sound is crucial when controlling digital audio effects. This often presents …

Sound-shape associations, a subset of cross-modal associations between the auditory and
visual domain, have been studied mainly in the context of matching a set of purposefully …

Content-based icons are in widespread use for image and video files: Icons for them can
easily be created as thumbnail-size pictures. We present a method to create content-based …

A well-designed visualization can make the exploration of music collections an intuitive and
entertaining experience. In this paper, four different methods (colors, icons, fonts and …

Today many people store music media files in personal computers or portable audio
players, thanks to recent evolution of multimedia technologies. The more music media files …