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Michael Voong and Russell BealeUniversity of Birmingham, UKwww.colourplayer.com
Music Organisation Using Colour Synaesthesia
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When you think of Tuesday, do you think of
Orange?
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“the music player should learn my music taste and help me select the right music for the moment. Something fresh in the morning,
something smooth in the evening...”
The Problem
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Doing this in iTunes
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Primary Method: Playlists
• Cumbersome process
• Opinions of what goes in changes over time
• Sometimes text not a great descriptor
• Boundaries of genres blur
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User Study
• Aims
• Find out current usage behaviours
• Explore possibilities of other descriptors
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Age Groups
• Main age group17-30 years
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Collection Sizes
• Typically very large music collections
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Number of Different Genres
• Diverse music collections
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Choice of Media Player
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Playback Method
• Selection methods most popular
• Users still want choice
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A Tagging Methodology
• Tag music according to emotional response
• Use response indirectly as a filtering mechanism
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Workflow: Tagging
MusicUserListens to
Synaesthesia
Tag AppliedColour Association
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Strong/Weak Synaesthesia
• Experience of perceiving in one sense when another is stimulated
• e.g. involuntary perception of colour when hearing sounds
• Rare to experience strong synaesthesia
• e.g. Grapheme → color synesthesia
• Most people experience weak synaesthesia
• e.g. Colour from timbre or key
• Some consistent trends: e.g. higher pitched sounds → brighter colours
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Experiment
• 57 users
• No demographical information (deliberate)
• Discrete choice of ten colours:
Task: associate five tracks with colours
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Colour Meaning Theory
Source: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/color2.htm
• Not proven, but generally accepted in western world
• Special cultural colours
• e.g. trust and stability
• Americans: generally blue
• Koreans: pink and other pastel colours
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“Feels Like It Should”
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Orange: Sunshine, enthusiasm, fascination,happiness, creativity,
stimulation
Purple: Ambition, wisdom, creativity
and magic. a very artificialcolour
What Does This Mean?
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“Killing Time”
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Red: Energy, danger, courage, power, passion and desire
Black: Power, elegance, death, eviland mystery
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“This Love”
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Red-orange: Pleasure, aggression, action
Light Red: Joy, sensitivity and love
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“For 2 of the songs a colour came straight away and it was quite clear”
Comments
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“I'm always happy when I have a good DJ, who plays songs that I like at this moment... So, choosing songs of 'similar colour' could be
helpful...”
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“I only use playlists excessively because itunes doesn't have a good enough inbuilt way of
organising my music by mood”
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“i think that there may be a problem with the user being inconsistent with how they associate their music with colours, especially if you consider that
they'll be doing this over the lifetime of the application”
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“I love the idea. But if this is the only means to play music then it may be too restrictive.”
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“...I strongly believe that there is no intrinsic property in music that suggests color. This
would be subjective and change even for a given person from situation to situation. Any association of color is external to the music
itself...”
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Movements and Colour
“suites of classical music often consist of movements of varying 'colour' - one
peaceful movement, one dramatic one, etc. For an example listen to the New
World Symphony by Dvorak.”
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Performance: Merging PlaylistsS
ecs
Subject
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General Performance
• Colour Player: only 16% slower to assign colour than assign playlist
• Neither hard not easy (mean = 3.11, s.d = 1.05) to associate colours with music
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Reasons for Colour Selection
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Association Patterns
• Two dimensional self-organising map
• No clear patterns seen
• Future work to mine larger dataset
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Questions?
Michael Voong and Russell BealeUniversity of Birmingham, UKwww.colourplayer.com