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Changing the emotions of music

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:14:32 +1000

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).

My duduk - Day 1

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:22:18 +1000

The duduk is a double reed wind instrument from Armenia, first thought to have appeared around 3000 years ago. Notoriously difficult to play, the duduk has a beautiful haunting sound and has been growing in popularity with Western film composers. A few months back you may recall my interest in purchasing a duduk.

Well yesterday morning my duduk arrived. Crafted by hand from aged apricot wood, I picked up one in the diatonic scale of A from duduk.com. I've decided to create a video diary of my progress, with the first instalment coming after my first day of practise. Never having played a reed instrument before, I found the first few minutes rather challenging.

Duduk and Didgeridoo - My next two instruments

Wed, 23 May 2007 15:38:57 +1000

A couple weeks back I was chatting with my friend Darragh about our respective instrument collections. I've got two new instruments I would like to add to the list: the Duduk and the Didgeridoo. I've always been fond of the Duduk, its haunting wailing style has become quite popular in pop culture films like Gladiator and The Crow. After pulling out Delerium's old 1997 album Karma today, I was reminded of just how beautiful the instrument is. As for the Didgeridoo, simply because I love the timbre and having yet another play on my friend's last week.

Jascha Heifetz plays Bach Chaconne

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:54:29 +1000

A couple of weeks ago I came across a glorious recording of Jascha Heifetz playing the Chaconne from J.S. Bach's Partita no. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor; parts 1 & 2. The playing is superb, perhaps the best I've ever heard. This recording was made when Heifetz was in his prime, and is superior to his later performances. Remember that you can also download YouTube clips.

Throat singers of Tuva, live at Philadelphia Folk Festival 2006

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:47:00 +1000

You can find out more about the group Huun-Huur-Tu at their website.

Quiz Time

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:34:42 +1000

Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was der Mode Schwert geteilt
Bettler werden Fuerstenbrueder
Wo dein sanfter Fluegel weilt.

Zombie rock band Lordi wins Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Mon, 22 May 2006 13:52:32 +1000

This news made my f@cking day [2]. It's nice to see a different type of plastic winning the Eurovision contest. You can watch their lead track 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' over at Google Video. If like myself you didn't watch the show, you can catch also watch their live performance, or view some photos. Some of their other music videos include: Would you love a monsterman?, Devil is a loser and Blood red sandman. Their official site also has some more information.

Bach - St John's Passion

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:54:47 +1000

On Keys to Music this week, Graham Abbott takes a look at JS Bach's "St John's Passion". A 55 minute radiocast available in real and win formats.

My Music

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:29:26 +1000

My Recordings

Title	Style/Period	Play Length	Date	size
Loss	Pleasant Modern	2:03	27/12/00	2.5 Meg
Rainforest Spring	Pleasant Modern	3:19	26/07/01	4 Meg
Prelude No. 1 in D Flat Major	Baroque	1:03	16/06/01	1.5 Meg
Prelude No. 2 in A Flat Major	Romantic	3:08	25/12/01	4 Meg

requiem.net.au - Music

Changing the emotions of music

My duduk - Day 1

Duduk and Didgeridoo - My next two instruments

Jascha Heifetz plays Bach Chaconne

Throat singers of Tuva, live at Philadelphia Folk Festival 2006

Quiz Time

Zombie rock band Lordi wins Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Bach - St John's Passion

My Music

My Recordings

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