The CMMR 2025 proceedings are available here.
Paper Oral Session #1 – Technology-Augmented Music Learning and Performance
Session Chair: Sølvi Ystad
Educational Profiling of Guitar Tablature: Tools to Foster Self-Guided Learning [pdf]
Marcelo Rodríguez and Anssi Klapuri
Proposal of a Singing Instruction Support System with an Inhalation Restriction Function to Demonstrate the Difference in Physical Ability between a Teacher and Student in Online Lessons [pdf]
Hiroya Miura, Akiyo Obara, Hiroki Watanabe, Yoshinari Takegawa, and Keiji Hirata
GuitarFlow: Realistic Electric Guitar Synthesis from Tablatures via Flow Matching and Style Transfer [pdf]
Jackson Loth, Pedro Sarmento, Mark Sandler, and Mathieu Barthet
The Impact of Nonlinear Distortion on the Perceived Brightness and Roughness of Electric Guitar Chords [pdf]
Richard Berrebi, Agathe Mangialomini, Etienne Thoret, and Richard Kronland-Martinet
Paper Oral Session #2 – Auditory and Multimodal Perception
Session Chair: Patrick Susini
Exploring Individualization of Sound Stimuli [pdf]
Salomé Sudre, Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Laetitia Petit, and Mitsuko Aramaki
Bouba, Kiki, and the Movement Between: Toward a Sensorimotor Hypothesis of Sound-Shape Cross-modal Correspondences [pdf]
Lou Couston, Mitsuko Aramaki, Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland- Martinet, and Etienne Thoret
Between Bouba and Kiki Lies Grougi: Modelling the Rough Middle Ground of Sound-Shape Correspondences [pdf]
Asterios Zacharakis, Konstantinos Velenis, and Emilios Cambouropoulos
Cross-Modal Coupling between Pitch and the Perception of Space, and its Modulation by Contextual Priors [pdf]
Zofia Anna Hołubowska, Marlen Herkenberg, and Marc Schönwiesner
Exploring the Impact of Nonlinear Distortion on Perceived Musical Gestures and Intentions [pdf]
Agathe Mangialomini, Richard Berrebi, Etienne Thoret, and Richard Kronland-Martinet
Paper Oral Session #3 – Networked, Situated, and Collaborative Sound Practices
Session Chair: Dominik Schlienger
Connectivity and Adaptability: Evaluation of Signal Flow Scenarios in Shared Outdoor Electronic Practices on Mobile Devices [pdf]
Otso Aavanranta, Oleksandra Nenko, Alejandro Montes de Oca, and Dominik Schlienger
Interactive Theatre Sound Design: A Collaborative Workshop [pdf]
Rod Selfridge
Immersive Soundscapes with Networked Vibrating Panels: Bridging Place and Space [pdf]
Mathieu Barthet, Jérémy Perrouin, Emily Stifter, Vincent Debut, and Christine Esclapez
Paper Oral Session #4 (Special Session) – Human Auditory Ecology: Minds, Milieux, Machines & Musics
Session Chairs: Etienne Thoret & Vincent Lostanlen
Solidian Soundscapes: Artistic Research on Spatial Quality of Sound in Soil [pdf]
Paul Goutmann and Diane Schuh
Sound, Music, Language, and Human Communication: Acoustic Nudges in Sound-Mediated Interaction [pdf]
Nami Arimitsu
Paper Oral Session #5 – Computational Musicology: Modeling Diverse and Specialised Traditions
Session Chair: Carlos Pérez-Sancho
Leveraging Melodic Context for Improved Svara Representation [pdf]
Thomas Nuttall, Vivek Vijayan, Xavier Serra, and Lara Pearson
Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Approaches for Melodic Pattern Analysis in Arab-Andalusian Music [pdf]
Alessandro Sellani, Niccolò Pretto, and Ivan Donadello
CNN Performance in Genre Classification on Popular Genres from Amazonian Region: An Analysis in Relation to Human Evaluation and its Implications [pdf]
Claudio Gomes and Tsang Ing Ren
Toward Musicologically-Informed Retrieval: Enhancing MEI with Computational Metadata [pdf]
Nádia Carvalho and Gilberto Bernardes
Paper Oral Session #6 – Inclusive Sound Design and Musical Interfaces
Session Chair: Mitsuko Aramaki
Sonic Weather: A study on the Sonification of Daily Weather Patterns and their Correlation with the Sonic Identity of Locations [pdf]
Abeer Mohamed and Tony Stockman
A Prototype of a MIDI 2.0 Controller for Inclusive Music Interaction [pdf]
Vanessa Faschi, Guido Orsomaria Basi, Federico Avanzini, Luca Andrea Ludovico, and Emanuele Parravicini
SpeaK: a Methodology to Communicate about Sounds [pdf]
Patrick Susini, Olivier Houix, Nicolas Misdariis, and Romain Barthélémy
Paper Oral Session #7 – Frontiers in Music Information Retrieval: Analysis, Classification, and Separation
Session Chair: Tomoyasu Nakano
AnalysisGNN: Unified Music Analysis with Graph Neural Networks [pdf]
Emmanouil Karystinaios, Johannes Hentschel, Markus Neuwirth, and Gerhard Widmer
Pitch Estimation in Real Time: Revisiting SWIPE with Causal Windowing [pdf]
Peter Meier, Sebastian Strahl, Simon Schwär, Meinard Müller, and Stefan Balke
Exploring the Classification of Pipe Organ Sounds: Recognizing Instruments, Organ Types, and Registrations [pdf]
Vince During, Pablo Dumenil, and Peter van Kranenburg
A Study on the Data Distribution Gap in Music Emotion Recognition [pdf]
Joann Ching and Gerhard Widmer
A Conditioned UNet for Music Source Separation [pdf]
Ken O’Hanlon, Basil Woods, Lin Wang, and Mark Sandler
Pitch Spelling Jazz Lead Sheets and Solo Transcriptions [pdf]
Augustin Bouquillard and Florent Jacquemard
Paper Oral Session #8 – Designing, Composing, and Perceiving Spatial Audio Experiences
Session Chair: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Opening Up Sound Space [pdf]
Alain Bonardi and Paul Goutmann
Compositional Strategies to Create Experiences of Imaginary Spaces through Headphone Listening [pdf]
Fatma Neval Tarım
Sonic Maze: Pressure-Sensitive Drawing as an Affective Sonic Practice [pdf]
Federica Ciotti and Patrick Hartono
Influence of Late Reverberation and Echoes on Rhythmic Drum Playing [pdf]
Joris Agator, Sølvi Ystad, Mitsuko Aramaki, Adrien Vidal, and Richard Kronland-Martinet
Paper Oral Session #9 (Special Session) – Exploring Atmospheres: Interdisciplinary Phenomenologies of Sound, Image, and Space
Session Chairs: Natacha Cyrulnik & Isotta Trastevere
From Cybernetics to Immersivity: Reframing Sound Space in Electroacoustic and Audiovisual Composition [pdf]
Paulo C. Chagas and Ivana Petković Lozo
Spatial Sound Does Not Exist: Toward a Contextual Model of Spatial Meaning-Making [pdf]
Johannes Scherzer
Poster Session #1 – Music, Sound, and Technology: Perception, Computation, and Creative Practice
Session Chairs: Ava Fatah & Chunling Wu
A Bit of Everything: A Cherry-Picking Approach to Massively Multichannel Music Composition [pdf]
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Feature-Based Modelling of Perceived Emotion in Film Music [pdf]
Ruby Olivia Nagano Crocker and Gyorgy Fazekas
Supporting Narrative Comprehension in Programmatic Music through Music and Light [pdf]
Anna-Maria Christodoulou, Hugh Alexander von Arnim, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Where to Put That Microphone? A Study of Sound Localization in Ambisonics Recordings [pdf]
Maham Riaz, Jinyue Guo, Çağrı Erdem, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Ethical Challenges in AI-Driven Soundscape Monitoring: Balancing Ecological Insights and Privacy [pdf]
Sridharan Sankaran
Listening is Better Understood with: Minds, Milieux, Machines & Musics [pdf]
Etienne Thoret and Vincent Lostanlen
Implementation of a Brass Instrument Player Classification Model using Facial Recognition with Two-Stage Classification Combining SVM and CNN [pdf]
Hiroya Miura, Kazuto Inagaki, Hiroki Watanabe, and Yoshinari Takegawa
Scoring Instructional Utterances in Guitar Lessons using Semantic Labels and LLM [pdf]
Nami Iino, Masaki Matsubara, Masatoshi Hamanaka, and Hideaki Takeda
Euphrasis: An Interactive System for Music Preference Verbalization [pdf]
Arisa Okamura, Kento Watanabe, Takayuki Nakatsuka, Kosetsu Tsukuda, Tian Cheng, Tomoyasu Nakano, and Masataka Goto
Audiovisual Perception of Musical Interactions in Mixed Pieces with the Karlax [pdf]
Linglan Zhu, Mael Oudin, Benjamin Lavastre, and Stephen McAdams
MuseLeader: Toward Music Editing through Time-series Semantic Parameters Control using Large Language Model [pdf]
Ryosei Kawaguchi and Haruhiro Katayose
Computational Phrase Segmentation of Iberian Folk Traditions: An Optimized LBDM Model [pdf]
Amir Abbas Orouji, Nadia Carvalho, António Sá Pinto, and Gilberto Bernardes
Fine-Grained MIDI Expression Transcription from Wind and String Instrument Audio via Sim2Real Transfer Learning [pdf]
Yifan Xie, Zixun Guo, and Mathieu Barthet
QuartSet: A String Quartet Dataset for Transcription and Source Separation of Real Instrument Recordings
Erika Rumbold and George Tzanetakis
Image Sonification as Unsupervised Domain Transfer [pdf]
Bálint Laczkó, Marie E. Rognes, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Two Journeys : Insights on the Annotation of Large-Scale Optical Music Recognition Datasets [pdf]
Pau Torras, Martina Dvořáková, Carles Badal, Markéta Herzánová Vlková, Gerard Asbert, Jiří Mayer, Alicia Fornés, and Jan Hajič Jr.
Poster Session #2 – Music, Sound, and Technology: Perception, Computation, and Creative Practice
Session Chairs: Ava Fatah & Chunling Wu
The Sound of Archetypes: A Case Study in Immersive Sonic Translation of the Major Arcana [pdf]
Tamas Czuper
Music, Technology, Education and Environmental Sustainability: an Overview of Findings from Recent Research in the UK [pdf]
Ross M. Purves, Evangelos Himonides, and Emma Arnott
Context-Dependent Labeling of Improvisational Piano Performance in Early Childhood Education and Therapy [pdf]
Risa Kobayashi, Kanae Suzuki, Nami Iino, Ikki Ohmukai, Hiroko Terasawa, and Masaki Matsubara
Pairing Disparate Datasets for Generative Outputs Across Music and Architecture [pdf]
Rolandas Markevičius
Movement through Musical Space as a Generative Model [pdf]
Greg Corness
Bridging Paintings and Music – Exploring Emotion-based Music Generation Through Paintings [pdf]
Tanisha Hisariya, Huan Zhang, and Jinhua Liang
Ethical Frameworks for Responsible Music AI: Balancing Creativity, Ownership, and Cultural Impact [pdf]
Sridharan Sankaran
Pixel Labeler: A Pixel-wise Annotation Tool for Active Learning Music Recognition [pdf]
Carlos Pérez-Sancho, Alejandro Galan-Cuenca, Juan P. Martinez-Esteso, Francisco J. Castellanos, and Antonio Javier Gallego
AI-Assisted Music Production: A User Study on Text-to-Music Models [pdf]
Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Simone Marcucci, and Fabio Antonacci
Robo-Sax Ensemble System
Gou Koutaki and Masatoshi Hamanaka
Training a Perceptual Model for Evaluating Auditory Similarity in Music Adversarial Attack [pdf]
Yuxuan Liu, Rui Sang, Peihong Zhang, Zhixin Li, and Shengchen Li
Parallelising the Polyphony : High-Performance Algorithms for Music Pattern Matching [pdf]
Antti Laaksonen and Kjell Lemström
MUSE-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Symbolic Music Graph Classification Models [pdf]
Baptiste Hilaire, Emmanouil Karystinaios, and Gerhard Widmer
SPAR-Timbre: Unlocking Non-linear Dynamics in Music Audio with Symmetric Projection Attractor Reconstruction [pdf]
Mateusz Solinski, Wentao Hao, and Elaine Chew
Explicit Tonal Tension Conditioning via Dual-Level Beam Search for Symbolic Music Generation [pdf]
Maral Ebrahimzadeh, Gilberto Bernardes, and Sebastian Stober
Beyond the Beats: Can Downbeat Trackers Predict Hypermetre? [pdf]
Jose Esquivel and Jordan B. Smith
Perceived Femininity in Singing Voice: Analysis and Prediction [pdf]
Yuexuan Kong, Viet-Anh Tran, and Romain Hennequin
Poster Session #3 – Music, Sound, and Technology: Perception, Computation, and Creative Practice
Session Chairs: Ava Fatah & Chunling Wu
Spatial Representation in 24 Frames as a Condition for the Emergence of Atmosphere [pdf]
Natacha Cyrulnik, Isabelle Singer, Jean-Pierre Moreau, Isotta Trastevere, Isabel Castro, Javier Elipe Gimeno, Rosine Bénard O’Kelly, Betina Hueto, and Rémi Adjiman
Integrating Virtual Reality into Music Performance for Concert Audiences [pdf]
Elois Zelada and Anıl Çamcı
From Sound to Image: Toward an Aesthetic of Saturation in Peter Tscherkassky’s Outer Space [pdf]
Javier Elipe Gimeno, Isabel Castro, and Charles Paiva Santana
Designing a Geolocated Soundwalk Player Using DIY Electronics: An Underestimated Approach to Site-specific Sound Art and Research [pdf]
Thomas Denez, Antoine Beaufort, and Charles Verron
Cross-Modal Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Auditory Stimuli and Human Micromotion when Standing Still in Indoor Environments [pdf]
Jinyue Guo, Jim Torresen, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
From Page to Place : Reviving Forgotten Hymns through AI in a Site-Specific Heritage Music Project [pdf]
Ross M. Purves
Can You See the Sound? What Role do Visual Cues Play in Aiding Communication for the Individual and between Group Members in a Brass Ensemble Setting? [pdf]
Noa Kurumi Nishizawa
Fostering Embodied Sense of “Maai” in Musical Ensembles: An Interactive Media Approach for Cultivating Collaborative Timing and Spacing [pdf]
Karen Kurotaki, Kaoru Mikami, Yoshinari Takegawa, and Masaki Matsubara
A Trial Implementation of Augmented Reality Pitch Visualization in Ensemble Rehearsals: Insights from Wind Instrument Players [pdf]
Yasumasa Yamaguchi
Challenges in Basso Continuo Performance-to-Score Alignment [pdf]
Suhit Chiruthapudi, Adam Štefunko, Jan Hajič Jr., and Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón
Real-Time Gesture Classification via Multi-Modal Sensor Data for Intuitive Performance Mapping [pdf]
Evan O’Donnell and Atau Tanaka
Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer [pdf]
Zhanhong He, David Cooper, Defeng Huang, and Roberto Togneri
Melody-Rendering Method Based on Generative Theory of Tonal Music [pdf]
Masatoshi Hamanaka, Keiji Hirata, and Satoshi Tojo
Cluster Expressive Timing in Performed Music with VQ-VAE [pdf]
Zihan Chai and Shengchen Li
Hierarchical Symbolic Pop Music Generation with Graph Neural Networks [pdf]
Wen Qing Lim, Jinhua Liang, and Huan Zhang
A Case Study Towards Segment-Aware Version Identification [pdf]
Simon Hachmeier and Robert Jäschke
Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Deconvolution for Multi-Instrument Transcription of Solo Drum Performances [pdf]
Mikko Hakila and Kjell Lemström
The Moving Soundscape of Xichuiting: Ritual Sound and Place Identity in Linhai, China [pdf]
Yuling Chen
Demo Sessions
Session Chairs: Chris Pettit-Mee & Chris Rhodes
Singing Without a Larynx: A Vowel-Based Real-Time Interface for Embodied Vocal Performance [pdf]
Gala Lucia Gonzalez Barrios and Ico Bukvic
Real-time Visualizer for Beats and Scratches of Breaking DJ Performances [pdf]
Masatoshi Hamanaka
Echo Fossils: A Fossil-Inspired AI-Generated Ambient Soundscape Interactive System for Emotional Resonance and Emotional Soothing [pdf]
Jingjing Sun, Ziqing Xu, and Ziming Wangr
Undine Gloves: A Hybrid CV-MIDI Wireless Gestural Controller for Modular Synth Ecosystems [pdf]
Bruno Newman