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Daniel Harasim
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Publications associées (13)
Fishing for complements with chord, scale, and rhythm nets
The aim of this paper is to argue that complementation is an operation similarly fundamental to music theory as transposition and inversion. We focus on studying the chromatic complement mapping that translates diatonic seventh chords into 8-note scales wh ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023Phantom Curves: Scientific Discovery through Interactive Music Visualization
Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim
We introduce phantom curves, a novel music-theoretical concept based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), and document the creative process that led to their discovery. In particular, we emphasize the importance of interactive web applications for musi ...
ACM2022Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study on music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti, Christoph Finkensiep
Functional harmony is an integral part of many repertoires in the Western musical practices, including both diatonic and extended tonality. In the latter context, music-theoretical accounts suggest that the three octatonic equivalence classes (OECs) consis ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022midiVERTO: A Web Application to Visualize Tonality in Real Time
Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim
This paper presents a web application for visualizing the tonality of a piece of music-the organization of its chords and scales-at a high level of abstraction and with coordinated playback. The application applies the discrete Fourier transform to the pit ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022Music Cognition: The Complexity of Musical Structure
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Mathieu Giraud
Music is highly complex and provides a rich variety of insights into the human mind, its mental structures, and processes. Experienced musicians are able to create complex structures in real time effortlessly, yet there is at present no successful model of ...
2021Exploring the foundations of tonality: statistical cognitive modeling of modes in the history of Western classical music
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim
Tonality is one of the most central theoretical concepts for the analysis of Western classical music. This study presents a novel approach for the study of its historical development, exploring in particular the concept of mode. Based on a large dataset of ...
SPRINGERNATURE2021The Learnability of the Grammar of Jazz: Bayesian Inference of Hierarchical Structures in Harmony
Musical grammar describes a set of principles that are used to understand and interpret the structure of a piece according to a musical style.
The main topic of this study is grammar induction for harmony --- the process of learning structural principles f ...
EPFL2020The Jazz Harmony Treebank
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Harald Ericson
Grammatical models which represent the hierarchical structure of chord sequences have proven very useful in recent analyses of Jazz harmony. A critical resource for building and evaluating such models is a ground-truth database of syntax trees that encode ...
ISMIR2020Axiomatic scale theory
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim
Scales are a fundamental concept of musical practice around the world. They commonly exhibit symmetry properties that are formally studied using cyclic groups in the field of mathematical scale theory. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework for mathema ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020Harmonic Syntax in Time: Rhythm Improves Grammatical Models of Harmony
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim
Music is hierarchically structured, both in how it is perceived by listeners and how it is composed. Such structure can be elegantly captured using probabilistic grammatical models similar to those used to study natural language. They address the complexit ...
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