Master's thesis completed
My master’s thesis (cand.philol.) has now been submitted to the University of Oslo: How Do We Recognize a Song in One Second? the Importance of Salience and Sound in Music Perception. Abstract This project started with the observation that we manage to recognize a song by listening to only a second of it. What perceptual and musical features make this possible, and can such features be used in music analysis and music information retrieval? These questions can be broken down to two main problems: a) segregation of sensory input and b) recognition of musical features. ...