Umbert Morist, Martí (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
This thesis focuses on the control of a singing voice synthesizer to achieve natural expression similar to a real singer. There are many features that should be controlled to achieve natural expression ...
Coleman, Graham Keith (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Sampling, as a musical or synthesis technique, is a way to reuse recorded musical expressions. In this dissertation, several ways to expand sampling synthesis are explored, especially mosaicing synthesis, ...
Gulati, Sankalp (Date of defense: 2016-11-17)
Automatically describing contents of recorded music is crucial for interacting with large volumes of audio recordings, and for developing novel tools to facilitate music pedagogy. Melody is a fundamental ...
Kersten, Stefan (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Environmental texture sounds are an integral, though often overlooked, part of our daily life. They constitute those elements of our sounding environment that we tend to perceive subconsciously but which ...
Srinivasamurthy, Ajay (Date of defense: 2016-11-17)
Las colecciones de música son cada vez mayores y más variadas, haciendo necesarias nuevas fórmulas para su organización automática. El análisis automático del ritmo tiene como fin la extracción de ...
Papiotis, Panagiotis (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
This dissertation proposes a computational data-driven methodology to measure music ensemble interdependence - the degree to which musicians interact and influence each other’s actions in order to achieve ...