article · Chaos Solitons & Fractals · 2018
Complexity measures of music
April Pease, Korosh Mahmoodi, Bruce J. West
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Abstract
We present a technique to search for the presence of crucial events in music, based on the analysis of the music volume. Earlier work on this issue was based on the assumption that crucial events correspond to the change of music notes, with the interesting result that the complexity index of the crucial events is μ ≈ 2, which is the same inverse power-law index of the dynamics of the brain. The search technique analyzes music volume and confirms the results of the earlier work, thereby contributing to the explanation as to why the brain is sensitive to music, through the phenomenon of complexity matching. Complexity matching has recently been interpreted as the transfer of multifractality from one complex network to another. For this reason we also examine the mulifractality of music, with the observation that the multifractal spectrum of a computer performance is significantly narrower than the multifractal spectrum of a human performance of the same musical score. We conjecture that although crucial events are demonstrably important for information transmission, they alone are not sufficient to define musicality, which is more adequately measured by the multifractality spectrum.
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Pease, A., Mahmoodi, K., & West, B. J. (2018). Complexity measures of music. Chaos Solitons & Fractals, 108, 82–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2018.01.021
Pease, April, et al. “Complexity measures of music.” Chaos Solitons & Fractals, vol. 108, 2018, pp. 82–86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2018.01.021.
Pease, April, Korosh Mahmoodi, and Bruce J. West. 2018. “Complexity measures of music.” Chaos Solitons & Fractals 108: 82–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2018.01.021.
Pease, A., Mahmoodi, K. and West, B.J. (2018) ‘Complexity measures of music’, Chaos Solitons & Fractals, 108, pp. 82–86. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2018.01.021.
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