Acoustic Music

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Title of the text: Acoustic Features Influence Musical Choices Across Multiple Genres
Author/s: Michael D. Barone,1 Jotthi Bansal,1 and Matthew H. Woolhouse2
Title of the journal/publication: NCBI
Url/web adress: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495864/

Main idea:

Acoustic features, musical preference, musical genre, music downloads, musical influence, music information retrieval.

Evidence that support the main idea:

"Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners' preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-defined subgroups that are distinct. Using correlation analysis, these distributions are used to test the degree of similarity between subgroups' main genres and the other music within their download collections. Analysis 2 explores the issue of main-to-secondary genre influence through the production of 10 feature-influence matrices, one per acoustic feature, in which cell values indicate the percentage change in features for genres and subgroups compared to overall population averages. In total, 10 acoustic features and 10 genre-defined subgroups are explored within the two analyses. Results strongly indicate that the acoustic features of people's main genres influence the tracks they download within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. The nature of this influence and its possible actuating mechanisms are discussed with respect to research on musical preference, personality, and statistical learning."