# HG changeset patch # User Henrik Ekeus # Date 1328388502 0 # Node ID 664c3852fca8d31c66c2d20271cd9227152aba71 # Parent df296e19cf29905c8af8d476cc3589a4ac2319f6 a start on the experimental section diff -r df296e19cf29 -r 664c3852fca8 nime2012/mtriange.pdf Binary file nime2012/mtriange.pdf has changed diff -r df296e19cf29 -r 664c3852fca8 nime2012/mtriange.tex --- a/nime2012/mtriange.tex Sat Feb 04 20:06:15 2012 +0000 +++ b/nime2012/mtriange.tex Sat Feb 04 20:48:22 2012 +0000 @@ -9,11 +9,24 @@ \newcommand{\colfig}[2][1]{\includegraphics[width=#1\linewidth]{figs/#2}}% %\let\expect=\avg -\CopyrightYear{2008} %will cause 2008 to appear in the copyright line. +\CopyrightYear{2012} %will cause 2008 to appear in the copyright line. \crdata{Copyright remains with the author(s).} \conferenceinfo{NIME12,}{ Somewhere} +%TODO +% +%use official NIME LateX template +%more background on expectation in music. Include refs. +%more background on IDyOM. Include refs +%formal descriptions of redundancy, entropy rate, predictive information rate +%discussion on its use as a composition assistant.. +%comments on the aesthetics of the output (why it all sounds like minimalism) +%better triangle diagram (fix shading) +% +%Bibtex / refs +% +% \title{The Melody Triangle - Pattern and Predictability in Music} \numberofauthors{2} \author{ @@ -162,18 +175,13 @@ \section{Musical Preference and Information Dynamics Study} -[TODO!] -We carried out a preliminary study +We carried out a preliminary study that sought to determine any correlation between aesthetic preference and the information theoretical measures of the Melody Triangle. In this study participants were asked to use the screen based interface of the Melody Triangle. It was simplified so that all they could do was move tokens around. The axes of the triangle would be randomly rearranged for each participant. +The study was divided in to two parts, the first investigated musical preference with respect to single melodies at different tempos. In the second part of the study, a background melody is playing and the participants are asked to find a second melody that 'works well' with the background melody. For each participant this was done four times, each with a different background melody from four different areas of the Melody Triangle. + +[TODO!!] -The study was divided in to 5 subtasks. The axes of the triangle would be randomly rearanged prior for each participant. - - this first task, which will last [4/3] minutes, we simply ask you to move the token where ever in the triangle you wish,. This allowed the participant to get use to the environment get use to the interface and get a sense of how position of tokens changes a melody. - -In the following tasks a background melody is playing and the participant are asked to find a second melody that 'works well' with the background melody. In each of these tasks the background melody has different statistical properties. In the first it ....., In the second the background melody ... in the third... And finally in the fourth case the melody is in the middle of the triangle, that is it.... - - - +At the end of the study the participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire to elicit their prior musical experience. \subsection{Results} X participants took part in the study (mean median age). (Prior musical experience? )