We introduce a method for imposing higher-level structure on generated, polyphonic music.
A Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (C-RBM) as a generative model is combined …

Groove is the experience of wanting to move when hearing music, such as snapping fingers
or tapping feet. This is a central aspect of much music, in particular of music intended for …

Music often evokes a regular beat and a pleasurable sensation of wanting to move to that
beat called groove. Recent studies show that a rhythmic pattern's ability to evoke groove …

Background The timing-related deficits in individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) contribute to the symptom-related difficulties and cognitive impairments …

The field of automatic music composition has seen great progress in recent years,
specifically with the invention of transformer-based architectures. When using any deep …

In this paper we present SynPy, an open-source software toolkit for quantifying syncopation.
It is flexible yet easy to use, providing the first comprehensive set of implementations for …

VirtualBand is a multi-agent system dedicated to live computer-enhanced music
performances. VirtualBand enables one or several musicians to interact in real-time with …

Drum tracks for electronic dance music are a central and style-defining element. But creating
them can be a cumbersome task because of a lack of appropriate tools and input devices …

This paper presents a corpus-based study on rhythmic patterns in the RAG-collection of
approximately 11.000 symbolically encoded ragtime pieces. While characteristic musical …

Ghostnotes sind im Rhythmus populärer Musik allgegenwärtig: leise Töne oder Schläge, die
zwischen den lauteren gespielt werden und das metrische Raster auffüllen. Warum Musiker …