Graphical expression of the mood of music

Abstract

Abatmet-We propose a graphical method that a music performance is intended t o create in the minds of the audience. Our graphical approach overcomes the problems associated with verbal labeling. Besides piaying a melody and harmony, a music player tries to produce certain feelings in the audience by manipulating tempo, rhythm, articulation, and dynamic changes. Despite the linear nature of music, the produced mood does not necessarily preserve the temporal sequence, and is mentally representable in different forms. As a first approximation to such a representation, we have developed a plane method on which the above mentioned musical expression elements are projected. First, expression elements for all notes in a musical section were derived. They were then arranged according to the importance of notes in consideration of the musical structure.

Examining Emotion Perception Agreement in Live Music Performance

“…The sampling rate adequately captures the meaningful changes in participants' emotion annotations, as even the most actively rating participants made up to 10.65 ratings/minute in the Live study, which is well below one rating/sec. This assumption is in line with the instructions given to participants, to rate when a change is perceived 4 . Figure 3 shows the ICC estimate with a 95% confident interval [51] in each of the 45 segments, as well as the number of ratings for each segment 5,6 .…”

“…This may include perceived emotion, that which the listener recognises the music is trying to convey, or induced emotion, that which is felt by the listener in response to the music [3]. A single musical work can express a range of emotions that vary over time and across individual listeners [4], [5], [6]; thus, self-reporting investigations may use time-based annotation of emotions to help identify detailed, localised emotion "cues" [7], [8], [9], [10].…”

Liquid Hands: Evoking Emotional States via Augmented Reality Music Visualizations

“…A plethora of real-time music visualizers provide stimulating experiences by reacting to the music's tempo, rhythm, strength, or pitch. Diverse varieties of geometric designs have been utilized in the visualization of musical rhythms, such as bars [22,38], radial forms [24], spirals [9], isochords [4], arc diagrams [56], and three-dimensional structures [39,55]. One of the earliest works by Kubelka [31] proposes a proof-of-concept interactive music visualizer comprising three primary units -a sound analyzer, a visualization module, and a scene editor.…”

Extraction of Emotional Content from Music Data

“…Because of a small set of songs it is difficult to assume that they are full professional systems. A graphical expression of emotions is the subject of research of Hiraga and Matsuda [3], where each note is assigned to a colored rectangle, expressing its emotional charge. Next, after the serialization of notes, a greater area is created that informs about emotion of the piece of music.…”