A composition algorithm based on crossmodal taste-music correspondences
While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded...
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todo:paper_16625161_v_nMARCH2012_p_Mesz2023-10-03T16:28:53Z A composition algorithm based on crossmodal taste-music correspondences Mesz, B. Sigman, M. Trevisan, M. Algorithm Composition Cross-modal Language Music Semantics Taste adult article association auditory discrimination auditory feedback auditory stimulation bitter taste controlled study female gesture human human experiment language processing learning algorithm male music normal human process development scoring system semantics stimulus response sweetness task performance taste discrimination While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded domain of semantics: the words and concepts referring to taste sensations. In a recent work, we found that taste words were consistently mapped to musical parameters. Bitter is associated with low-pitched and continuous music (legato), salty is characterized by silences between notes (staccato), sour is high pitched, dissonant and fast and sweet is consonant, slow and soft (Mesz2011). Here we extended these ideas, in a synergistic dialog between music and science, investigating whether music can be algorithmically generated from taste-words. We developed and implemented an algorithm that exploits a large corpus of classic and popular songs. New musical pieces were produced by choosing fragments from the corpus and modifying them to minimize their distance to the region in musical space that characterizes each taste. In order to test the capability of the produced music to elicit significant associations with the different tastes, musical pieces were produced and judged by a group of non musicians. Results showed that participants could decode well above chance the taste-word of the composition. We also discuss how our findings can be expressed in a performance bridging music and cognitive science. © 2012 Mesz, Sigman and Trevisan. Fil:Mesz, B. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Sigman, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Trevisan, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_16625161_v_nMARCH2012_p_Mesz |
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Algorithm Composition Cross-modal Language Music Semantics Taste adult article association auditory discrimination auditory feedback auditory stimulation bitter taste controlled study female gesture human human experiment language processing learning algorithm male music normal human process development scoring system semantics stimulus response sweetness task performance taste discrimination |
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Algorithm Composition Cross-modal Language Music Semantics Taste adult article association auditory discrimination auditory feedback auditory stimulation bitter taste controlled study female gesture human human experiment language processing learning algorithm male music normal human process development scoring system semantics stimulus response sweetness task performance taste discrimination Mesz, B. Sigman, M. Trevisan, M. A composition algorithm based on crossmodal taste-music correspondences |
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Algorithm Composition Cross-modal Language Music Semantics Taste adult article association auditory discrimination auditory feedback auditory stimulation bitter taste controlled study female gesture human human experiment language processing learning algorithm male music normal human process development scoring system semantics stimulus response sweetness task performance taste discrimination |
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While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded domain of semantics: the words and concepts referring to taste sensations. In a recent work, we found that taste words were consistently mapped to musical parameters. Bitter is associated with low-pitched and continuous music (legato), salty is characterized by silences between notes (staccato), sour is high pitched, dissonant and fast and sweet is consonant, slow and soft (Mesz2011). Here we extended these ideas, in a synergistic dialog between music and science, investigating whether music can be algorithmically generated from taste-words. We developed and implemented an algorithm that exploits a large corpus of classic and popular songs. New musical pieces were produced by choosing fragments from the corpus and modifying them to minimize their distance to the region in musical space that characterizes each taste. In order to test the capability of the produced music to elicit significant associations with the different tastes, musical pieces were produced and judged by a group of non musicians. Results showed that participants could decode well above chance the taste-word of the composition. We also discuss how our findings can be expressed in a performance bridging music and cognitive science. © 2012 Mesz, Sigman and Trevisan. |
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A composition algorithm based on crossmodal taste-music correspondences |
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