Re: [music-dsp] RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-21 Thread Ross Bencina
Hello Mathieu, Thanks for responding. You answered my questions and your examples were interesting. I have made a few brief comments: The description of the survey begins: We are conducting an experiment to determine the moods or emotions *expressed* by music. (my emphasis) As Richard has

Re: [music-dsp] RE : RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 20/02/2013 20:50, mathieu barthet wrote: To clarify things, in this study we rely on the assumption that music expresses/suggests emotions (perceived emotions) and we focus on these perceived emotions. The survey does not concern emotions which may be elicited/induced/evoked by music.

[music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread mathieu barthet
-- Apologies for potential cross-postings -- ** M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey ** ** https://www.bbcarp.org.uk/m4/UserTrial ** [After a recent discussion on music and emotions on this list following a call for another

Re: [music-dsp] crossover filtering for multiband application

2013-02-21 Thread James C Chandler Jr
Jiri, apologies if the following links you already know. Sometimes I'm guilty of giving professors kindergarten info which could be unintended insult. :) My knowledge of filters is primarily experimental, at first long ago design-building lots of analog filter circuits and studying them with

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Greg Kellum
Hi Mathieu, Are you going to make this data publicly available at some point? If so, when and in what context? What's going to happen with the data has some influence on how willing I am to spend time doing the survey. Best, Greg From:

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 21/02/2013 20:58, mathieu barthet wrote: ... [After a recent discussion on music and emotions on this list following a call for another survey, I will add the following note to the present call for participation: This survey relies on the assumption that music may suggest or express

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 21/02/2013 21:03, Greg Kellum wrote: Hi Mathieu, Are you going to make this data publicly available at some point? If so, when and in what context? What's going to happen with the data has some influence on how willing I am to spend time doing the survey. Best, Greg A pertinent

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Ross Bencina
On 22/02/2013 9:54 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: Listen to each track at least once and then select which track is the best match with the seed. If you think that none of them match, just select an answer at random. Now I am no statistician, but with only four possible answers offered per test,

Re: [music-dsp] RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 20/02/2013 16:12, Richard Dobson wrote: .. So were I to do the survey, I fear I might be guilty of some mischief. So in fact, I need not have worried - mischief is built into the system! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ,

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Wen Xue
They have to agree upon some measurement of emotion before making a point at each other. Maybe a geometric average of blood pressure and heart rate? I remember someone making a connection between music-induced emotion with goosebumps on the forearm - he literally counted the bumps!

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Andy Farnell
I have noticed Ross, that I tend to seek out music that reflects an already emerging emotion, such that the music then precipitates a physiological emotion. If I am in the mood to be excited by Bizet or the Furious Five MCs, then Radiohead or Gorecki cannot sadden me. And conversely. The longer

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 21/02/2013 23:19, Ross Bencina wrote: . You mean the one about adding to the large number of studies offering empirical evidence in support of the assumption? However, despite a recent upswing of research on musical emotions (for an extensive review, see Juslin Sloboda 2001), the literature

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread David Akbari
How do you control for inter- and intra-subject variability? Are you going by IP addresses on each test administration and calling it a single subject? Perhaps this is a problem in cases where multiple distinct user preferences are expressed through a single IP address? It will be very

[music-dsp] RE : RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-21 Thread mathieu barthet
May I... On 20/02/2013 16:12, Richard Dobson wrote: .. So were I to do the survey, I fear I might be guilty of some mischief. So in fact, I need not have worried - mischief is built into the system! Richard Dobson @Richard: If I understand well your points, I believe not quite. I believe