5 papers
Echoes of Humanity: Exploring the Perceived Humanness of AI Music
Flavio Figueiredo, Giovanni Martinelli, Henrique Sousa +3
Recent advances in AI music (AIM) generation services are currently transforming the music industry. Given these advances, understanding how humans perceive AIM is crucial both to…
Assessing the Impact of Sampling, Remixes, and Covers on Original Song Popularity
Guilherme Soares S. dos Santos, Flavio Figueiredo
Music digitalization has introduced new forms of composition known as "musical borrowings", where composers use elements of existing songs -- such as melodies, lyrics, or beats --…
I've Heard This Before: Initial Results on Tiktok's Impact On the Re-Popularization of Songs
Breno Matos, Francisco Galuppo, Rennan Cordeiro +1
With over a billion active users, TikTok's video-sharing service is currently one of the largest social media websites. This rise in TikTok's popularity has made the website a cent…
Surprising Patterns in Musical Influence Networks
Flavio Figueiredo, Tales Panoutsos, Nazareno Andrade
Analyzing musical influence networks, such as those formed by artist influence or sampling, has provided valuable insights into contemporary Western music. Here, computational meth…
Do we need more complex representations for structure? A comparison of note duration representation for Music Transformers
Gabriel Souza, Flavio Figueiredo, Alexei Machado +1
In recent years, deep learning has achieved formidable results in creative computing. When it comes to music, one viable model for music generation are Transformer based models. Ho…