Corpus “Social cognition in improvised interactions”

2017-02-062017-02-06 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

This is a research corpus of 100 improvised musical duets recorded for the paper “Musical friends and foes: The social cognition of affiliation and control in improvised interactions” by JJ Aucouturier and Clément Canonne, Cognition, vol. 161, 94-108, 2017. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027717300276

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The overdub corpus

2016-09-142016-09-17 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

A corpus of free pop music recordings, mixed by a professional sound engineer in several variants used to experiment with a listener’s feelings of social cohesion. Each track is available in X variants

Single lead voice + orchestra (PBO) – drums
Single lead voice + vocal overdub (double-tracking) + orchestra (PBO)
Single lead voice – overdub + orchestra + drums
Single lead voice + randomly detuned PBO – drums
Single lead voice + randomly desynchronized PBO

The corpus is made available under a Creative Commons licence, from archive.org.

Mixed by Sarah Hermann (CNSMDP, Paris) at IRCAM, July 2016.

IRCAM Neutral-Content Voices

2015-09-212016-02-01 Pablo Arias

A corpus of multi-linguistic neutral-content sentences spoken in various prosodic tones (6 sentences, 4 languages, 3 male and 3 female speakers, 4 emotional tones), available under Creative Commons for research purpose.

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