Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music 5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers

Retrieving the Meaning.- Timbre Perception of Sounds from Impacted Materials: Behavioral, Electrophysiological and Acoustic Approaches.- Perception of Harmonic and Inharmonic Sounds: Results from Ear Models.- Semantic Contours in Tracks Based on Emotional Tags.- Chunking Sound for Musical Analysis.- Towards a Model of Musical Chunks.- Does Social Interaction Activate Music Listeners?.- Musically Meaningful or Just Noise? An Analysis of On-line Artist Networks.- The Pursuit of Happiness in Music: Retrieving Valence with Contextual Music Descriptors.- Perception of Impacted Materials: Sound Retrieval and Synthesis Control Perspectives.- Refinement Strategies for Music Synchronization.- Labelling the Structural Parts of a Music Piece with Markov Models.- Tree Representation in Combined Polyphonic Music Comparison.- Interval Distinction on Melody Perception for Music Information Retrieval.- A Learning-Based Model for Musical Data Representation Using Histograms.- Generating the Meaning: Tools and Performance.- Ontological Substance and Meaning in Live Electroacoustic Music.- Dynamic Mapping Strategies for Expressive Synthesis Performance and Improvisation.- Amplified Breath - (Dis)Embodied Habitat: Exploring Sonic Interfaces of Performance, Electronics, Space and Flautist Identity.- KSQuant - Complex Score Manipulation in PWGL through Quantization.- Strategies and Methods for Creating Symbolic Electroacoustic Scores in ENP.- An IEEE 1599-Based Interface for Score Analysis.- New Music in the Atomic Age.