FinalProjectProposals

=__Post your ideas here, with your name first and then your project idea. All groups should list themselves together.__ =

BTW***: This is merely to see what other classmates are doing. It is not required!**

>> Our hypothesis is that partly because of principles of categorical rhythm perception, some subjects will perceive the early or lateness of the sample as the inverse to what is actually occurring within the composition. Additionally we hypothesize that subjects with musical backgrounds will perceive the rhythmic anomalies better than those without any kind of musical training. Subjects with prior musical experience will certainly hear discrepancies in rhythm in a far shorter time period than those without. This will be an interesting experiment because it will challenge participants to critically reevaluate musical compositions or styles that they are already somewhat familiar with, but in a largely different context. SIDENOTE/CLARIFICATION: Basically, the idea for the project was to take the vocal a capellas from several different pop songs, and couple them with very simple percussion tracks of varying rhythmic textures (i.e. one with bass drum only, one with bass and snare, and one with bass, snare and hi-hat on sixteenth notes) One version of each mix will be at the right tempo, one version will run the percussion track at +.2 BPM and one will run it at -.2BPM. These will all exist in a PD environment in which users would click one button that would play a song of their choice, but would not specify which variation on tempo was being played (using some kind of randomizer). The user then has three different buttons to click in reference to what they are hearing: Early, Late or On-Time, which would all be in reference to how the vocal track is syncing with the percussion track. All three buttons would stop all playback, and would record the user's choice and the amount of time to respond in some kind of hidden data area, which we would analyze later. //
 * Justin Gutierrez- "Perception of time stretching in polyrhythms**". //I propose to create a PD patch where I test listeners' abilities to determine if part or all of a polyrhythm is being altered. For example, if you a have a 2:3 polyrhythm (i.e: eighth notes and triplets playing simultaneously), I would alter the triplets to move slower/faster and record at what level of milliseconds a difference was perceived. Also, I would try to alter both at once to see if change is perceived just as soon.//**
 * Lucas Rohm & Devin Askounis - "Vocal Rhythm Perception & Small Tempo Alterations." //The goal of this project / experiment is to test how individuals perceive rhythmic discrepancies when subjected to slight changes in tempo. Vocal samples with rhythmic qualities from various pop songs will be paired with percussion sections of various rhythmic textures programmed in MIDI at the tempos those vocal samples were originally intended to be played at. Then, alternate mixes of the percussion sections will be run at +/- .2 BPM, so that eventually vocal samples will lose their rhythmic solidarity with the MIDI percussion section. Individuals (participants in the experiment) will be introduced to a virtual environment, in which one controls the onset of a particular mix, but does not specify which variation in tempo they are being subjected to, the subject is then asked to determine whether the vocal sample is early, late or on time in comparison to the rhythm texture. The subject's response time will be measured using a timer element, and the results of several trials will be stored within the program for future analysis.
 * //Garrett Sneen -**// I’d like to do a project that deals with the idea of recognizing altered melodies because it caught my interest when we covered that in class, and even my wiki entry had a little to do with this… The project example list mentions possible ways of carrying out such a project, but I’m still not sure how I want to transform the melodies. *After today's class I thought of instead of stretching the pitch of the melodies, i could stretch the time of each note. I vaguely remember learning something about the way we process conversations-- each word needs to be spoken quickly enough so that we can make sense of the sentence. If the words are too slow, then we "forget" what the proceeding words were and so the meaning of their sequence is lost. I'll have to look it up again before I can flesh out the project, but I'm sure melodies are the same way, and so I could make a rev test to find the breaking point at which the average person can't identify a given melody.
 * Cairn Riney: I would like to do a research paper on immediate melody recall. I've looked up studies that explore melody recall of adults vs. children and musicians vs. non-musicians.
 * Kris Calabio: I will do a research paper about the nature tonality. Pretty much what I did for my Midterm wiki page but more in depth. I will discuss the presence of tonality in various cultures around the globe, theories of harmony, and the psychology of anticipation in music.