Data hiding techniques for steganography, which embed secret data in multimedia imperceptibly, are useful for protecting information security. By taking advantage of the popularity of MIDI files on ...the Internet, a new data hiding method via MIDI files is proposed, which modifies the velocities of musical note sequences to embed secret data. Initially, musical note sequences with monotonic pitches, each consisting of at least three consecutive notes with pitches either entirely non-decreasing or entirely non-increasing, are found from an input MIDI file. Next, for each of such musical note sequences, a reference velocity is generated for each non-end note in the sequence by a linear interpolation scheme. Then, a number of data bits are embedded into each non-end note by adding the decimal value of the bits to or subtracting the value from the corresponding reference velocity value to yield a new velocity for the note. The new velocity value does not differ much from the original one and fits the velocity trend in the musical note sequence, so that the resulting stego-MIDI file does not yield abnormal note strengths and the musical expression is kept. Moreover, a melody humanization scheme is proposed for modifying the velocity values in strength-invariant MIDI channels to create data embeddability without producing unreasonable melodies. The original MIDI file size is also kept unchanged after data embedding, avoiding attracting attentions from hackers. Experimental results show the feasibility of the proposed method. Also, a comparison with five other methods show that the method has the merit of reducing the resulting melody distortion or file-size change while yielding a reasonable secret-bit embedding rate.
This research is aimed to devise an anthropomorphic robotic head with a human-like face and a sheet of artificial skin that can read a randomly composed simplified musical notation and sing the ...corresponding content of the song once. The face robot is composed of an artificial facial skin that can express a number of facial expressions via motions driven by internal servo motors. Two cameras, each of them installed inside each eyeball of the face, provide vision capability for reading simplified musical notations. Computer vision techniques are subsequently used to interpret simplified musical notations and lyrics of their corresponding songs. Voice synthesis techniques are implemented to enable the face robot to sing songs by enunciating synthesized sounds. Mouth patterns of the face robot will be automatically changed to match the emotions corresponding to the lyrics of the songs. The experiments show that the face robot can successfully read and then accurately sing a song which is assigned discriminately.
► A face robot capable of performing unique musical entertainment function. ► A robot can read the simplified musical notation and sing the song in real time. ► Computer vision used to read the notation and voice synthesis to sing the content. ► Most people enjoy the autonomous musical notation reading and singing performance.
The interactive artwork on iPad unifies various colors and musical pitch. Ordinary people, particularly children, are able to play imaginatively to unify those two. Even in artistic field, the ...composers with synaesthesia like Scriabin, Messiaen and so on, created some pieces and concept models of instruments. This application aims to two experience for user, the one is to provide the artistic experience of the great composers, the other is provide the free combinations color and pitch to the ordinary user. It is developed on iPad by Swift language.
スクリャービンやメシアンなど共感覚を持つといわれている作曲家たちは、独自の感覚によって、音高や調性と色彩が感覚的に結合している。一方で子供たちなどは、特殊な感覚が無くとも音高や調性と色を自由に結び付けて音楽的な遊びを行うことは珍しくない。本作品は音高と色彩とを古典的な音楽インタフェイス上で柔軟に組み合わせることにより、こうした融合的な感覚を手軽に楽しめるようにしたインタラクティブ作品である。3DCGを用い、iOS上にSwift言語により実装した。
Art Therapy Lath, Warsha
Journal of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health,
06/2014, Volume:
1, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
In my regular sessions of art I have taught them songs and hymns (sometimes they express a desire to learn some particular number too), not as much to train them as singers, but to instill confidence ...and conquer their inner reluctance to mingle with people around them. In the first few sessions we had a discussion on art and their perception of it. Nature, according to them was the prime example of art at its best and we concluded these sessions on a happy note that no one could compete with the Supreme Artist. ...they came up with beautiful works on various topics given to them, e.g.- Happiness, Aspiration, What makes them happy (this was interesting as many drew the art-class in progress, while many others drew nature.
A system to convert the image of such a score to a sound file is useful in many areas such as: control, robotics, computer vision. The purpose of this paper is to develop a method to obtaining a ...direct conversion from a musical score to a sound file. The paper presents the design methodology of an artificial neural network (ANN) used to recognize musical notes. First, the image of the musical score is captured. One of the main contributions of the authors is identifying and extracting the features of the musical score and exporting them to the ANN. Then, the input/output codes are described, the network is trained and the results of different training methods with different neurons are compared.
The philosophical oeuvre of Gilles Deleuze and his co-author Felix Guattari provides an interesting and provocative set of ideas that challenge prevailing thinking about music education. Deleuze and ...Guattari’s writing on music is perhaps best embodied in their seminal text A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1987).
The science of string musical instrument is greatly dependent on materials science. Mathematics and physics make an excellent tool for teaching the science of string instruments at different levels ...ranging from non-scientists to students trained at the highest academic level. Materials science and engineering, and on the other hand, arts programs in a university curriculum have an important impact on the strength of the academic community, revitalizing students’ interest in fields such as physics, acoustics, mechanics and attracting creative participants to material science courses. Academic community cultural activity and especially musical activity provides multiple opportunities for students from technical departments to develop their skills and therefore to continue to be interested in music through their entire life. International competitions for violinmakers have the merit of stimulating innovation in a very long-standing tradition. The competition juries use a credit system based on the following features: quality of craftsmanship, size, varnish coating, completion, total impression including composition of materials, response, carrying ability, playability, and total impression relating to tonal properties. The main implications for material sciences and musical instruments educational programs are firstly in developing students’ creativity by blending scientific and technological activities with musical creativity, secondly in creating an academic curriculum which serves as a bridge for students to participate in large technical and musical offerings of different communities and thirdly in contributing to the knowledge economy encouraging competitiveness, entrepreneurialism and innovation.
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