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Changing the emotions of music

Steven @ Fri, 2008-01-18 09:14

My recently submitted doctoral thesis discusses CMERS - a Computational Music Emotion Rule System for the control of perceived musical emotions, that modifies a musical work at the levels of score and performance in real-time. I researched, designed, programmed, and tested CMERS, which handles all modifications to the musical work. CMERS achieves a change in perceived musical emotion through the application of music-emotion rules; these rules quantify the empirically observed relations between musical features and specific emotions (for example, major mode ≈ happy, minor mode ≈ sad).

Employing a 2-dimensional representation of emotion (see link below), CMERS was shown in testing to be successful in changing the perceived emotion of all selected music works to each of the four emotion space quadrants, referred to loosely as happy, angry, sad, and tender, with a mean accuracy of 78% and a multinomial logistic regression analysis of Χ2(9) = 11183.0, p < 0.0005 (N = 20).
 
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