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Music and Emotion Listening Test

You are invited to take part in a research study on emotion and music. This study is conducted by Yading Song from Center for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, as a part of his doctoral research.

Instructions

  • Please fill in the questionnaire about your musical background on the first page of the test.
  • Listen to the songs (they will last either 30 or 60 seconds)
  • Rate each piece using the two dimensions: Valence (happy-sad continuum) and Arousal (excited-relaxed continuum)

Chordino and NNLS Chroma

If you want to start right away, you can download readily compiled binaries for Windows and Mac OSX (Intel) (see top of this page). Then just use them in a host such as Sonic Visualiser or Audacity, which are also open source.

A video of the installation on a Mac is available here.

Sonic Annotator Web Application

Sonic Annotator Web Application (SAWA) is a simple framework for writing Web-based applications involving audio analysis.

SAWA workflow

Sonic Visualiser

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it.

sonic visualiser screenshot

Sonic Annotator

Sonic Annotator is a batch tool for feature extraction and annotation of audio files allowing audio analysis results to be output in RDF (or other formats).
Sonic Annotator ecosystem

QM Vamp Plugins

Audio feature extraction plugins from Queen Mary, University of London

A set of plugins for feature extraction from audio data, using the Vamp plugin format suitable for use in programs such as Sonic Visualiser and Sonic Annotator.

VAMP diagram

SoundBite - OS X
SoundBite is the quickest and easiest way to create great-sounding playlists in iTunes. Once installed, SoundBite will get to know your music collection and when it's done, you're ready to create playlists to suit your mood with just a couple of mouse clicks!
SoundBite icon


applications

  • Sonic Visualiser
  • Sonic Annotator
  • Listening tests
    • Emotion listening test
    • Greek Music Listening Test
  • SoundBite
    • SoundBite - OS X
    • SoundBite - Windows
    • SoundBite - SongBird
  • amblr
  • HOTTTABS
  • SAWA
    • SAWA-Feature Extractor
    • SAWA-Recommender

plugins

  • QM Vamp Plugins
  • Chordino and NNLS Chroma
  • VamPy tutorial

ontologies

  • Automatic Ontology Generation
  • Music Ontology
  • Musical Instrument Taxonomies
  • Audio Features Ontology
  • Similarity Ontology
  • Studio Ontology

data

  • About data sets
  • Impulse Responses
  • Reference Annotations
    • The Beatles
    • Carole King
    • Queen
    • Michael Jackson
    • Zweieck
  • Automatic Annotations

audio processing

  • Adaptive robotization
  • Adaptive spectral panning
  • BeatFX
  • Calcium Signal Analyser
  • Pulsar Synthesis
  • Reverse Engineering the Mix
  • Spatial Audio Matlab Toolbox

computational biology

  • Calcium Signal Analyser

links

  • AES132 Tutorial
  • Music Hack Day Resources




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