TY - GEN
T1 - Cross-cultural aspects of perceptual features in K-pop
T2 - 43rd International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2017 and the 6th International Electronic Music Week, EMW 2017
AU - Friberg, Anders
AU - Choi, Kahyun
AU - Schön, Ragnar
AU - Downie, J. Stephen
AU - Elowsson, Anders
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the listeners for their participation and the help from the Chinese student organization at KTH. This work was supported by an exchange grant from UIUC and KTH within the Inspire program and the Swedish Research Council, Grant No. 2012 -4685.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In previous studies it has been shown that perceptual features can be used as an intermediate representation in music processing to model higher-level semantic descriptions. In this pilot study, we focused on the cross-cultural aspect of such perceptual features, by asking both Chinese and Swedish listeners to rate a set of K-Pop samples using a web-based questionnaire. The music samples were selected from a larger set, previously rated in terms of different emotion labels. The selection procedure of the subset was carefully designed to maximize both the variation of emotion and genre. The listeners rated eight perceptual features: dissonance, speed, rhythmic complexity, rhythmic clarity, articulation, harmonic complexity, modality, and pitch. The results indicated a small but significant difference in the two groups, regarding the average speed and rhythmic complexity. In particular the perceived speed of hip hop was different for the two groups. We discuss the overall consistency of the ratings using this methodology in relation to the interface, selection and number of subjects.
AB - In previous studies it has been shown that perceptual features can be used as an intermediate representation in music processing to model higher-level semantic descriptions. In this pilot study, we focused on the cross-cultural aspect of such perceptual features, by asking both Chinese and Swedish listeners to rate a set of K-Pop samples using a web-based questionnaire. The music samples were selected from a larger set, previously rated in terms of different emotion labels. The selection procedure of the subset was carefully designed to maximize both the variation of emotion and genre. The listeners rated eight perceptual features: dissonance, speed, rhythmic complexity, rhythmic clarity, articulation, harmonic complexity, modality, and pitch. The results indicated a small but significant difference in the two groups, regarding the average speed and rhythmic complexity. In particular the perceived speed of hip hop was different for the two groups. We discuss the overall consistency of the ratings using this methodology in relation to the interface, selection and number of subjects.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - 2017 ICMC/EMW - 43rd International Computer Music Conference and the 6th International Electronic Music Week
SP - 291
EP - 296
BT - 2017 ICMC/EMW - 43rd International Computer Music Conference and the 6th International Electronic Music Week
PB - Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Y2 - 15 October 2017 through 20 October 2017
ER -