Music Devices Research Articles

Sound Art of Internet of Things Explore: Sound Sensors in the Fusion of Painting and Music

INTRODUCTION: The combination of sound art and Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers new possibilities for artistic creation. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), sound sensors have become a powerful tool for capturing environmental sounds. This study aims to explore the application of suitable sensors in the fusion of painting and music by utilizing IoT technology to create more prosperous and interactive artworks for artists. OBJECTIVES: The study's primary purpose is to explore the potential uses of sound sensors in art creation, especially in integrating painting and music. By deeply analyzing the interaction between sound and visual art, the researchers aim to discover new creative possibilities, thus expanding the boundaries of artistic creation. METHODS: The study utilized a comprehensive methodology that included a literature review, field research, and artistic practice. First, the literature on sound art, IoT, and art fusion was extensively reviewed to provide a theoretical foundation for the study. Second, through field research, the researchers collected practical examples of sound sensors applied in the field of art. Finally, through hands-on art creation in the artist's studio, the researchers verified the potential applications of suitable sensors in the fusion of painting and music. RESULTS: The study found that sound sensors have many applications in painting-music fusion. By embedding suitable sensors into painting tools and music devices, artists can capture the sounds of their surroundings and transform them into visual and auditory artistic expressions. Examples from practice demonstrate how this technological innovation can bring a richer, more sensual experience to artistic creation while engaging the audience in interactive participation. CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that the combination of sound sensors and IoT technology offers new possibilities for artistic creation. By integrating proper elements in painting and music, artists can create more profound and engaging works. This innovation expands the boundaries of art and provides the audience with a more intimate and interactive experience with the artwork. In the future, further research can delve into the application of sound sensors in other artistic fields, thus promoting the integration of art and technology to move forward.

Digital technologies on learning the english language: a study with brazilian students

Children have access to different technologies in their daily lives. Thought them they can access a vast variety of information, which sometimes is presented in a foreign language. The objective of this study is to analyse whether the frequency of use and the activities done by children in digital technologies can be associated with their performance in writing, reading, and listening in English. Therefore, this study has as a guiding question: How much interaction with digital technologies in everyday life can contribute to English language learning? This research an ex post facto descriptive study with a qualitative and quantitative approach. Participed in the study 59 speaking elementary age student. Data was collected through questionnaires with the student’s families, a proficiency activity based on the Cambridge Young Learners Pre A1 Starters test, and an individualized interview with the participants. Initially, we characterize the group of participating children and their use of technological devices. Among the results, it is highlighted that all participating children have access to a smartphone and identified a relationship between the time of use of smartphones and music devices with the acquisition of the English language. From the correlations, it was observed that both digital games in English, watching videos with subtitles and listening to music in English presented positive associations with foreign language learning. Thereby, it was observed that the frequency of use of some technologies and the amount of time children spend in specific activities can be associated with the child’s ability to read, write, and comprehend content in English.

Exploring the determinants of users' co-creation behavior on music streaming platforms in China.

Music streaming platforms have recently become one of the latest innovative music devices used to replace traditional music sets. In order to examine users' behavior on music streaming platforms, this study proposes an extended research model based on flow theory and investigates the relationship between flow experience and co-creation behavior. A partial least square methodology was employed to test the proposed model and corresponding hypotheses on data collected from 390 survey samples. The results showed that flow experience has a significant influence on users' co-creation behavior. Among the three antecedents, only perceived skill and perceived interactivity have the strongest effects on flow experience, while perceived control has little effect on flow experience. This study discusses some valuable theoretical implications and offers insights useful for both researchers and practitioners.

From Grinder to Nipper: Opera, Music Technology and Italian American (Self-)Representation

AbstractIn this article I argue that the longstanding practice of depicting Italian Americans as opera lovers stems from a tradition associating Italian immigrants with mechanical music devices. As a growing number of Italian unskilled labourers entered the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, they were stereotyped as street musicians, and especially as organ grinders, in mainstream popular culture. Beginning in the 1900s, recording manufacturers strove to make home phonographs appealing to the middle class by breaking the chain of mechanical, social and racial associations that connected the phonograph with earlier musical devices such as the barrel organ, and with those who played them. Because of the prominent marketing role that record labels assigned to Italian opera, this commercial strategy had important consequences for the genre as well as for Italian immigrants, who leveraged opera's renewed visibility and audibility into an effective vessel for social and political empowerment.

Inside the tape recorder factory

Technical media such as playback devices play a key role in popular music culture. Hence, it is hardly surprising that extensive cultural-historical research with a focus on such devices has already been conducted. But almost all researchers working on the cultural history of playback devices in Germany concentrate on West Germany, while the media history of the GDR is treated marginally. In this article, I aim to contribute to the historiography of the GDR’s popular music with a focus on material culture. In doing so, I analyse archival material of the state-owned company VEB Messgerätewerk Zwönitz, which manufactured tape recorders in the 1950s and 1960s. The focus is on documents regarding the tape recorder BG 20. The sources, for example technical reports, advertisements, and letters from the government, demonstrate that the manufacturing of music devices in the GDR was highly influenced by the political conditions.

‘You have got such a beautiful symphony in front of you!’ Use and resistance to mobile music devices among adventurers

Since Michael Bull's seminal work on the Walkman, media scholars have observed how sound and technology enact certain interactional frameworks in urban contexts. We know little about the materiality of listening in non-urban space. This article contributes to these conversations by examining how adventurers (climbers, bushwalkers) adopt or resist mobile music devices when they are in the bush or mountains. I show how device use is moralised in this context, wrapped up in broader conversations about what it means to be a bushwalker or climber, particularly with respect to its impacts on connection to place and the embodied experience of being there. The analysis shows three modes of mobile music device use or non-use: 1) resisting devices to fully connect with the immediate environment; 2) attending to both the sounds of place with selective engagement with music as an additional layer of experience; and 3) device use as a strategy to disconnect mind from body at times of difficulty or boredom.

The sociology of style: Writing and influence within literary families

Since Michael Bull's seminal work on the Walkman, media scholars have observed how sound and technology enact certain interactional frameworks in urban contexts. We know little about the materiality of listening in non-urban space. This article contributes to these conversations by examining how adventurers (climbers, bushwalkers) adopt or resist mobile music devices when they are in the bush or mountains. I show how device use is moralised in this context, wrapped up in broader conversations about what it means to be a bushwalker or climber, particularly with respect to its impacts on connection to place and the embodied experience of being there. The analysis shows three modes of mobile music device use or non-use: 1) resisting devices to fully connect with the immediate environment; 2) attending to both the sounds of place with selective engagement with music as an additional layer of experience; and 3) device use as a strategy to disconnect mind from body at times of difficulty or boredom.

Applications of extended high-frequency audiometry: a narrative review

Background and Aim: Hearing loss assessment is typically done using the conventional pure tone audiometry (125 Hz to 8000 Hz). Extended high-frequency audiometry (EHFA), which covers the frequency range of 9000 Hz to 20000 Hz, is a very useful tool for detecting early hearing loss before engaging middle and low frequencies. The involvement of these frequencies significantly affects hearing sensitivity. The purpose of the present study was to review the literature on the early diagnosis of hearing impairment using EHFA. Recent Findings: EHFA has been suggested as a low utilization tool in clinical evaluation. How­ever, in recent years, a great deal of information has been provided in this area. This evaluation has proven to be useful in a variety of areas, including ototoxicity, noise-exposed individuals, and users of personal music devices, hidden hear­ing loss (HHL), middle ear infections, rheuma­toid arthritis, and Sjogren’s syndrome. Conclusion: Given the importance and appli­cation of this clinical tool in the early detection of hearing loss and its use in conjunction with other evaluations, better care planning and pre­vention can be offered to patients in some areas. Keywords: Extended high-frequency audiometry; middle ear infections; hidden hearing loss; ototoxic medications; noise exposure; personal music player

ETHNOMATHEMATICS: MUSICAL INSTRUMEN IN JA'I DANCES FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

In cultural responsive learning, teachers need to have the ability to explore mathematical phenomena in cultural elements as learning content. This research is a qualitative descriptive study aimed at exploring ethnomathematics in Bajawa traditional dances, namely the Ja,i dance, its relevance to competency standards and basic mathematics competencies in elementary schools. The approach used is ethnographic. The technique used is observation and study of documents and the researcher himself acts as the main instrument. Observations were made on the accompanying music devices contained mathematical concepts. Furthermore, researchers compare with the basic competencies of elementary school mathematics. The results showed mathematical material was found in the musical instrument section of Ja,i dance. The surface of the gong and the drum (gendang) are circular, the body of the large drum is frustum of a cone, and the gendang laba kagu, laba bhuga and gong are tube-shaped. In the middle of the gong there is a kind of lump which is shaped like a half ball. The implementation of this research can be applied in cultural responsive learning in elementary schools.Keywords: ethnomathematics, learning, cultural responsive, jai,i dance

An innovative method of algorithmic composition using musical tension

According to narratology or narrative theory, a piece of artwork should tell a story based on its various tensions. In this study, an automated music composition algorithm using musical tension energy was proposed; this algorithm can generate a musical piece by changing the musical tension. The proposed innovative Algorithmic Composition Musical Tension Energy (ACMTE) method uses the level of musical tension; this level is determined primarily by the chord progression and also the musical parameters of pitch interval and rhythm. The effects of musical tension energy on those parameters were analyzed. This paper presents a formula that unifies all generated parts. The experimental results demonstrate that thousands of beautiful pieces can easily be made without the use of a music database. This algorithmic composition method can be easily applied in both streaming media and to portable music devices, such as smart phones, notebooks, and MP3 players.

2C3-1 Effects of portable music devices on cycling behavior

2C3-1 Effects of portable music devices on cycling behavior

Fog Computing Approach for Music Cognition System Based on Machine Learning Algorithm

With the wide spreading of mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, music cognition as a meaningful task for music promotion has attracted a lot of attention around the world. How to automatically generate music score is an important part in music cognition, which acts as an important carrier so as to disposing huge quantity of music data in IoT networks or Internet. For the reason that the computers lack of the domain knowledge and cognitive ability, it is hard for computers to recognize the melody of music or write score while listening to the music. Therefore, a music cognition system is introduced to cognate music and automatically write score based on machine learning methods. First, considering large-scale data processing is needed by machine learning algorithms and a number of music devices are involved in the cognition system through Internet, fog computing is adopted in the proposed architecture to efficiently allocate computing resources. Then, the system can collect, preprocess, and store raw music data on the fringe nodes. Meanwhile, these data will be transmitted from fog nodes to cloud servers to form music databases. Then, machine learning algorithms, such as hidden Markov model and Gaussian mixture model, are performed in cloud servers to recognize music melody. Finally, a case study of music score generation demonstrates the proposed system. It is shown that the method provides an effective support to generate music score, and also proposed a promising way for the research and application of music cognition.

Headphone listening habits, hearing thresholds and listening levels in Swedish adolescents with severe to profound HL and adolescents with normal hearing

Objective: Research has minimally focussed on the music listening habits and preferred sound volumes among adolescents with severe to profound congenital HL. Listening to music played at loud sound volumes and for a long duration of time could imply risks of worsening the HL. Therefore, it is important to investigate the listening habits in adolescents with HL. The aim of the present study was to describe the use of personal music devices, subjective estimated sound levels, measured sound levels, listening habits, and hearing symptoms in adolescents with severe to profound hearing loss compared with adolescents with normal hearing.Design: The study was conducted in two steps. First, a questionnaire was given to students with or without hearing loss. In step two, hearing and sound level measurements were made in a subsample from both groups.Study sample: The study sample were based on 112 seventeen-year-old students with severe to profound hearing loss and 279 adolescents with normal hearing. Hearing thresholds and listening levels was measured on two subsamples based on 29 adolescents with severe to profound hearing loss and 50 adolescents from the group with normal hearing.Results: The results showed that adolescents with severe to profound hearing loss listened to significantly louder sound levels for longer periods. For both groups, those listening at louder sound levels had poorer hearing thresholds. This finding is especially alarming for subjects with hearing loss. Among those listening above 85 dB per occasion, the sound level ranged between 85.8 dB up to 109 dB for those with hearing loss, whereas the sound level ranged between 85.5 dB and 100 dB for those with normal hearing.Conclusions: Adolescents with congenital hearing loss used portable music devices in the same manner as adolescents with normal hearing. However, adolescents with hearing loss listened to louder sound volumes most likely to compensate for their hearing loss, which significantly increases the risk of further damage to their hearing. From a hearing rehabilitation perspective it could be concluded that aspect of music listening habits should be focussed in order to prevent noise induced hearing loss among individuals with congenital hearing loss.

BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTING PERSONALIZED MUSIC WITH NURSING HOME RESIDENTS WITH DEMENTIA

We focus on qualitative findings from site visits with 13 nursing homes in four states that implemented a personalized music program for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Seven facilities were participants in a statewide demonstration project, selected by state leaders because of their apparent success. We retrospectively interviewed key informants to learn how staff implemented the program and what they perceived as facilitators or barriers. We found common themes, such as how easily accessible the music devices are and how interdisciplinary care teams incorporate the program into care planning and quality improvement. We then prospectively followed six facilities in three states as they implemented the program. Site visits with these facilities allowed us to identify the processes necessary to fully adopt the program and incorporate it into the culture of care. Our final qualitative findings will serve as a guide to others implementing or evaluating this intervention.

Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media

In this article I explore the way mobile music devices with touchscreen technology produce new somatechnical figurations that reshape emotional dynamics of music listening. Using research drawn from a cyberethnography of online users from Reddit.com, I argue that the changing relationships between the human-computer interface result in new affective schemas that expand and reconfigure how it feels to listen to music in a mobile setting. In particular, I focus on skin-on-screen contact in order to suggest that the screen acts as a reflexive surface producing intimate relations for the mobile listener. Touchscreens imply the relationship between skin on skin—the skin of our body (in particular the hands) against the skin of the screen. It follows that mobile touchscreen devices suggest a degree of sensuality—in the coming together of bodies, fluids and other organic materials which ‘stick’ to the touchscreen. Reading the mobile touchscreen player as a somatechnical figuration therefore suggests that the listening experience is developing along with the technologies that mediate music to the body in ways that continue to challenge our understanding of bodily borders and in ways that redefine what it means to feel the music. Therefore, the touchscreen-skin is a critical site of affective relations that dramatically reshape what it means to listening to music in a mobile setting; a private and intimate encounter between the user and their counterpart.

Design and evaluation of an ambient intelligence testbed for improving quality of life

Ambient intelligence (AmI) deals with a new world of ubiquitous computing devices, where physical environments interact intelligently and unobtrusively with people. AmI environments can be diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, vehicles, tourist attractions, stores, sports facilities, and music devices. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a testbed for AmI using Raspberry Pi mounted on Raspbian OS. We analyse the optimised link state routing (OLSR) and wired equivalent privacy (WEP) protocol in an indoor scenario, and mean shift clustering algorithm considering sensing data. For evaluation we considered throughput, delay and jitter metrics, and respiratory rate and heart rate metrics. The experimental and simulation results show that the nodes in the testbed were communicating smoothly and the mean shift clustering algorithm have a good performance.

Headphone listening habits and hearing thresholds in swedish adolescents.

Introduction:The aim of this study was to investigate self-reported hearing and portable music listening habits, measured hearing function and music exposure levels in Swedish adolescents. The study was divided into two parts.Materials and Methods:The first part included 280 adolescents, who were 17 years of age and focused on self-reported data on subjective hearing problems and listening habits regarding portable music players. From this group, 50 adolescents volunteered to participate in Part II of the study, which focused on audiological measurements and measured listening volume.Results:The results indicated that longer lifetime exposure in years and increased listening frequency were associated with poorer hearing thresholds and more self-reported hearing problems. A tendency was found for listening to louder volumes and poorer hearing thresholds. Women reported more subjective hearing problems compared with men but exhibited better hearing thresholds. In contrast, men reported more use of personal music devices, and they listen at higher volumes.Discussion:Additionally, the study shows that adolescents listening for ≥3 h at every occasion more likely had tinnitus. Those listening at ≥85 dB LAeq, FF and listening every day exhibited poorer mean hearing thresholds, reported more subjective hearing problems and listened more frequently in school and while sleeping.Conclusion:Although the vast majority listened at moderate sound levels and for shorter periods of time, the study also indicates that there is a subgroup (10%) that listens between 90 and 100 dB for longer periods of time, even during sleep. This group might be at risk for developing future noise-induced hearing impairments.

Basile Zimmermann, Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China

Basile Zimmermann, Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China

Understanding users of cloud music services: Selection factors, management and access behavior, and perceptions

Recent, rapid changes in technology have resulted in a proliferation of choices for music storage and access. Portable, web‐enabled music devices are widespread, and listeners now enjoy a plethora of options regarding formats, devices, and access methods. Yet in this mobile music environment, listeners' access and management strategies for music collections are poorly understood, because behaviors surrounding the organization and retrieval of music collections have received little formal study. Our current research seeks to enrich our knowledge of people's music listening and collecting behavior through a series of systematic user studies. In this paper we present our findings from interviews involving 20 adult and 20 teen users of commercial cloud music services. Our results contribute to theoretical understandings of users' music information behavior in a time of upheaval in music usage patterns, and more generally, the purposes and meanings users ascribe to personal media collections in cloud‐based systems. The findings suggest improvements to the future design of cloud‐based music services, as well as to any information systems and services designed for personal media collections, benefiting both commercial entities and listeners.

Sound and War

Sound has always been a factor in war; sometimes used as a weapon, signalling device, motivator or to distract or dismay the enemy. Phillip S Meilinger explores how this use of sound in battle began millennia ago as shouts, war cries and drum rolls, and continues today with the use of rock music and sonic devices to shape the battlefield.