Over the last decade Laptop Orchestras and Mobile Ensembles have proliferated. As a result, a large body of research has arisen on infrastructure, evaluation, design principles and compositional methodologies for Computer ...

The practice of music composition often stems from a small idea or motif that blossoms into a complete work through careful application of repetition, variation and a dash of inspiration. In the highly rhythmic and repetitive ...

This is a dissertation about performing music with computers, and about constructing the tools that will facilitate playing and improvising with these computers. The primary aim of this research is to construct a theoretical ...

The progressive appearance of affordable tabletop technology and devices urges humancomputer interaction researchers to provide the necessary methods to make this kind of devices the most useful to their users. Studies ...

This thesis presents original research carried out in the topic of electronic dance music (EDM) drum sequencing, a fundamental and yet underdeveloped subject in the music production literature. The work undertaken is focused ...

This dissertation revolves around the task of computational key estimation in electronic dance music, upon which we perform three interrelated operations. First, we attempt to detect possible misconceptions within the task, ...