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Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Taie, I., Di Franco, P., Tymkiw, M., Williams, D., & Daly, I. (2022). Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits. PLoS ONE, 17(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269370

Museums have widely embraced virtual exhibits. However, relatively little attention is paid to how sound may create a more engaging experience for audiences. To begin addressing this lacuna, we conducted an online experiment to explore how sound infl... Read More about Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits.

On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health (2020)
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Williams, D., Hodge, V., & Wu, C. (2020). On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, 497864. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.497864

Increasingly music has been shown to have both physical and mental health benefits including improvements in cardiovascular health, a link to reduction of cases of dementia in elderly populations, and improvements in markers of general mental well-be... Read More about On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
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Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music (2020)
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Daly, I., Nicolaou, N., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., & Nasuto, S. (2020). Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music. Scientific Data, 7(1), 177. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0507-6

Music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. However, the neurological mechanisms by which music induces affect are not fully understood. Our project sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to af... Read More about Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music.

Electroencephalography reflects the activity of sub-cortical brain regions during approach-withdrawal behaviour while listening to music (2019)
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Daly, I., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., & Nasuto, S. (2019). Electroencephalography reflects the activity of sub-cortical brain regions during approach-withdrawal behaviour while listening to music. Scientific reports, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45105-2

The ability of music to evoke activity changes in the core brain structures that underlie the experience of emotion suggests that it has the potential to be used in therapies for emotion disorders. A large volume of research has identified a network... Read More about Electroencephalography reflects the activity of sub-cortical brain regions during approach-withdrawal behaviour while listening to music.

Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard (2018)
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Williams, D. (2018). Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.5546

“Stagger” Lee Shelton (1865-1912) was an African-American carriage driver and sometime-pimp from Missouri. He became immortalized in song as a folklore antihero after murdering a drinking partner following a political argument gone bad in a St Louis... Read More about Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard.

Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study (2018)
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Kirke, A., Williams, D., Miranda, E., Bluglass, A., Whyte, C., Pruthi, R., & Eccleston, A. (2018). Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study. Digital Creativity, 29(2-3), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2017.1407344

‘Many worlds’ is a short narrative live-action film written and directed so as to provide multiple linear routes through the plot to one of four endings, and designed for showing in a cinema environment. At two points during the film, decisions are m... Read More about Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study.

Unconsciously interactive films in a cinema environment — a demonstrative case study (2018)
Journal Article
Kirke, A., Williams, D., Miranda, E., Bluglass, A., Whyte, C., Pruthi, R., & Eccleston, A. (2018). Unconsciously interactive films in a cinema environment — a demonstrative case study. Digital Creativity, 29(2-3), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2017.1407344

‘Many worlds’ is a short narrative live-action film written and directed so as to provide multiple linear routes through the plot to one of four endings, and designed for showing in a cinema environment. At two points during the film, decisions are m... Read More about Unconsciously interactive films in a cinema environment — a demonstrative case study.

Personalised, multi-modal, affective state detection for hybrid brain-computer music interfacing (2018)
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Daly, I., Williams, D., Malik, A., Weaver, J., Kirke, A., Hwang, F., …Nasuto, S. (2020). Personalised, multi-modal, affective state detection for hybrid brain-computer music interfacing. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 11(1), 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2018.2801811

Brain-computer music interfaces (BCMIs) may be used to modulate affective states, with applications in music therapy, composition, and entertainment. However, for such systems to work they need to be able to reliably detect their user's current affec... Read More about Personalised, multi-modal, affective state detection for hybrid brain-computer music interfacing.

Directed motor-auditory EEG connectivity is modulated by music tempo (2017)
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Nicolaou, N., Malik, A., Daly, I., Weaver, J., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., …Nasuto, S. (2017). Directed motor-auditory EEG connectivity is modulated by music tempo. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00502

Beat perception is fundamental to how we experience music, and yet the mechanism behind this spontaneous building of the internal beat representation is largely unknown. Existing findings support links between the tempo (speed) of the beat and enhanc... Read More about Directed motor-auditory EEG connectivity is modulated by music tempo.

Affective Calibration of Musical Feature Sets in an Emotionally Intelligent Music Composition System (2017)
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Williams, D., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., Daly, I., Hwang, F., Weaver, J., & Nasuto, S. (2017). Affective Calibration of Musical Feature Sets in an Emotionally Intelligent Music Composition System. ACM transactions on applied perception, 14(3), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3059005

Affectively driven algorithmic composition (AAC) is a rapidly growing field that exploits computer-aided composition in order to generate new music with particular emotional qualities or affective intentions. An AAC system was devised in order to gen... Read More about Affective Calibration of Musical Feature Sets in an Emotionally Intelligent Music Composition System.

Affective brain–computer music interfacing (2016)
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Daly, I., Williams, D., Kirke, A., Weaver, J., Malik, A., Hwang, F., …Nasuto, S. (2016). Affective brain–computer music interfacing. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(4), 046022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/4/046022

Objective. We aim to develop and evaluate an affective brain–computer music interface (aBCMI) for modulating the affective states of its users. Approach. An aBCMI is constructed to detect a user's current affective state and attempt to modulate it in... Read More about Affective brain–computer music interfacing.

On the affective potential of the recorded voice (2016)
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Williams, D. (2016). On the affective potential of the recorded voice. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 64(6), 429-437. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2016.0019

Affective science increasingly concludes that the voice is a powerful tool for emotional communication. The process of creating a finished product by means of studio recording gives listeners the opportunity to engage in experiences of the voice that... Read More about On the affective potential of the recorded voice.

The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface (2015)
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Eaton, J., Williams, D., & Miranda, E. (2015). The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface. Brain-Computer Interfaces, 2(2-3), 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/2326263x.2015.1101922

Music as a mechanism for neuro-feedback presents an interesting medium for artistic exploration, especially with regard to passive BCI control. Passive control in a brain-computer music interface (BCMI) provides a means for approximating mental state... Read More about The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface.

Investigating perceived emotional correlates of rhythmic density in algorithmic music composition (2015)
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Williams, D., Nasuto, S., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., Daly, I., Hallowell, J., …Hwang, F. (2015). Investigating perceived emotional correlates of rhythmic density in algorithmic music composition. ACM transactions on applied perception, 12(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1145/2749466

Affective algorithmic composition is a growing field that combines perceptually motivated affective computing strategies with novel music generation. This article presents work toward the development of one application. The long-term goal is to devel... Read More about Investigating perceived emotional correlates of rhythmic density in algorithmic music composition.

Artificial Intelligence in Organised Sound (2015)
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Miranda, E., & Williams, D. (2015). Artificial Intelligence in Organised Sound. Organised Sound, 20(1), 76-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771814000454

Artificial Intelligence is a rich and still-developing field with a number of musical applications. This paper surveys the use of Artificial Intelligence in music in the pages of Organised Sound, from the first issue to the latest, at the time of wri... Read More about Artificial Intelligence in Organised Sound.

Automated identification of neural correlates of continuous variables (2014)
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Daly, I., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Malik, A., Weaver, J., Williams, D., …Nasuto, S. (2015). Automated identification of neural correlates of continuous variables. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 242, 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.12.012

Background The electroencephalogram (EEG) may be described by a large number of different feature types and automated feature selection methods are needed in order to reliably identify features which correlate with continuous independent variables.... Read More about Automated identification of neural correlates of continuous variables.

Investigating music tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control (2014)
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Daly, I., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Malik, A., Roesch, E., …Nasuto, S. (2014). Investigating music tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control. Brain-Computer Interfaces, 1(3-4), 158-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/2326263x.2014.979728

The feedback mechanism used in a brain-computer interface (BCI) forms an integral part of the closed-loop learning process required for successful operation of a BCI. However, ultimate success of the BCI may be dependent upon the modality of the feed... Read More about Investigating music tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control.

Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013 (2014)
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Williams, D. (2014). Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013. Metal music studies (Online), 1(1), 39-68. https://doi.org/10.1386/mms.1.1.39_1

The metal scene has undergone an evolution in sonic characteristics that is partially rooted in music technology developments and associated production techniques that have given rise to a set of identifiably distinct ‘metal’ timbres. The science of... Read More about Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013.