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Data-driven hierarchical visualizations of music
Pitch scapes represent the musical content of different sections of a piece, concretely, how often a specific pitch class occurred in a section. Points at the bottom of the scape plot represent very short sections at that specific location; higher points represent larger sections; the top summarises the entire piece. Pitch scapes can be visualised (…)
Techniques for identifying musical patterns
Voice-leading schemata are common note patterns that can be found in various musical styles ranging from Renaissance, Baroque and Classical to modern Popular and Jazz music. A notorious difficulty when dealing with patterns in music is the highly irregular, multidimensional structure of music as opposed to, for example, text. In particular, finding these patterns when (…)
The DCML Blog
In this part of our site, we intend to showcase some of the scientific highlights, fun ideas, tools, pieces, musical corpora that we are or have been working on at the DCML. Some of these have been presented in journals or at conferences, some are part of new research, and some are simply interesting things (…)