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 ...
Serrà Julià, Joan (Date of defense: 2011-02-23)
This work focuses on the automatic identification of musical piece versions (alternate renditions of the same musical composition like cover songs, live recordings, remixes, etc.). In particular, we ...
Laurier, Cyril François (Date of defense: 2011-09-19)
In this work, we focus on automatically classifying music by mood. For this purpose, we propose computational models using information extracted from the audio signal. The foundations of such algorithms ...
Salamon, Justin J. (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
Music was the first mass-market industry to be completely restructured by digital technology, and today we can have access to thousands of tracks stored locally on our smartphone and millions of tracks ...
Sordo, Mohamed (Date of defense: 2012-02-27)
El consum de la música ha canviat dràsticament en els últims anys. Amb l’arribada de la música digital, el cost de producció s’ha reduït considerablement. L’expansió de la Web ha ajudat a promoure ...
Salselas, Inês (Date of defense: 2013-04-26)
This dissertation concerns the computational modelling of early life development of music perception and cognition. Experimental psychology and neuroscience show results that suggest that the development ...
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 ...