MULTIDISCIPLINRY NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES.pptx
What does music mood mean for real users?
1. What does music mood mean
for real users?
Jin Ha Lee,Trent Hill, and Lauren Work
iConference 2012
2. Mood: a relatively long lasting
and stable emotional state (Meyer, 1956)
Emotion?
Affect?
3. Music mood
• Recently received a lot of attention in
MIR (Music Information Retrieval) domain
• “Audio Music Mood Classification” task in
MIREX, starting in 2007
Music Information Retrieval
Evaluation eXchange
8. 68 songs in total
39 cover
versions of
12 songs
29 other songs
9. Für Elise
Fly me to the moon
California dreamin’
Jingle bells
핑계 (Excuse)
비처럼 음악처럼 (Like rain, like music)
그리움만 쌓이네 (Yearning)
붉은 노을 (Red sunset)
Paparazzi – Lady Gaga
He’ll have to go – Jim Reeves
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother – The Hollies
Any dream will do – Jason Donovan
24. More on cultural context
People often first encounter new music
from various media (e.g., watching a
movie orTV commercial, listening to
the radio) without ever knowing the
artist name and song title (Lee, 2008)
25. Other factors
• Delivery
• Instrumentation
• Genre
• Musical expectancy
• Social expectation
• Personal preference
• Familiarity
• …and more
26. Conclusion
• Vocabulary of music mood is highly varied
among listeners
• Mood is affected by numerous factors, intrinsic
and extrinsic
• Mood is a highly subjective feature for
describing and organizing music
• Perhaps best exploited when used in
conjunction with other means for classification
27. Future work
• In-depth interview with users
• Cross-cultural study of music mood
perception
• Users’ response to music containing
conflicting moods across different factors