Sound and Music Computing R&D Lab

Journal Publications

2023. Bernardes, G., Carvalho, N., Pereira, S. FluidHarmony: Defining an Equal-tempered and Hierarchical Harmonic Lexicon in the Fourier Space. Journal of New Music Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2202641

2023. Clemente, M., Bernardes, G. Van Twillert, H., Ferreira, A., Amarante,  J., Mendes, J. Oral Rehabilitation of a Saxophone Player with Orofacial Pain. Journal of International Medical Research. SAGE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231161285

2022. Bernardo, G., Bernardes, G. Leveraging Compatibility and Diversity in Computer-aided Music Mashup Creation.  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Springer Nature. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-022-01702-z

2022. Clément, A. and Bernardes, G. Assessing the influence of multimodal feedback in Mobile-based musical task performance. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. MDPI. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mti6080068

2021. Clément, A., Moreira, L., Rosa, M., Bernardes, G. Musical Interaction Control in Handheld Devices: Towards Design Guidelines informed by Daily User Experience. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 5(7). Special Issue: Musical Interactions. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5070032

2021. Aly, L., Silva, H., Bernardes, G. Penha, R. Appropriating Biosensors As Embodied Control Structures in Interactive Music Systems. Journal Human Technology 17(1), 45—80. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.202106223978

2021. Salselas, I., Penha, R., Bernardes, G. Sound design inducing attention in the context of audiovisual immersive environments. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 25(4), 737–748. Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01386-3

2020. Clemente, M., Moreira, A., Carvalho, N., Bernardes, G., Ferreira, A., Amarante, J., Mendes, J. Orofacial trauma on the anterior zone of a trumpet’s player maxilla: concept of the oral rehabilitation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(24), 9423.  Special Issue: A Multidisciplinary Approach on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Orofacial Pain Associated to Temporomandibular Disorders. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249423

2020. Navarro-Cáceres, M., Caetano, M., Bernardes, G. Sánchez-Barba, M., Merchán, J. A Computational Model of Tonal Tension Profile of Chord Progressions in the Tonal Interval Space. Entropy 22(11), 129. Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Complexity in Art, Music, Games and Design. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22111291

2019.  Maças, C., Rodrigues, A., Bernardes, G., Machado, P. MixMash: An Assistive Tool for Music Mashup Creation from Large Music Collections. International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies, 8(2), 20-40. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.2019070102

2019. Clemente, M.,  Mendes, J., Moreira, A., Bernandes, G., Twillert, H., Ferreira, A., Amarante, J.  A new classification of wind instruments: Orofacial considerations. Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research, 9(3): 268-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobcr.2019.06.010

2019. Navarro-Cáceres, M., Caetano, M., Bernardes, G., Castro, L. ChordAIS: An Assistive System for the Generation of Chord Progressions with an Artificial Immune System. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2019.05.012

2017. Bernardes, G. David Huron, Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art (Book Review). Portuguese Jounal of Musicology, 4(1):219-226

2016. Bernardes, G., Cocharro, D., Guedes, C., Davies, M.E.P. Harmony Generation Driven by a Perceptually Motivated Tonal Interval Space. ACM Computers in Entertainment – Special Issue on Musical Metacreation, 14(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2991145

2016. Bernardes, G., Cocharro, D., Caetano, M., Guedes, C., Davies, M.E.P. A Multi-Level Tonal Interval Space for Modelling Pitch Relatedness and Musical Dissonance. Journal of New Music Research, 45(4): 281-294 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2016.1182192

2015. Beyls, P., Bernardes, G., Caetano, M. earGram Actors: An Interactive Audiovisual System Based on Social Behaviour. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (CITARJournal), 7(1):43-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v7i1.142

Book Chapters

2023. Bernardes, G. & Carvalho, N. A Computação Sonora e Musical. Introdução à Programação Criativa em Python. U.Porto Edições

2021. Cocharro, D., Bernardes, G., Gonçalo, B., & Lemos, C. A Review of Musical Rhythm Representation and (Dis)similarity in Symbolic and Audio Domains. In Luísa Castilho et al. (Eds.) Perspectives on music and musicology. Current Research in Systematic Musicology, vol 7. Springer, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78451-5_10

2020. Corintha, I., Outeiro, L., Dias, R., Bernardes, G. AM-I-BLUES: An Interactive Digital Music Instrument for Guiding Novice Pianist in the Improvisation of Jazz Melodies. In: Raposo D., Neves J., Silva J., Correia Castilho L., Dias R. (eds) Advances in Design, Music and Arts. EIMAD 2020. Springer Series in Design and Innovation, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55700-3_48

2020. Teixeira, P., Bernardes, G., & Davies, M. Fostering the database in Audio Production Environments by Affect Soundscape Retrieval. In Hidden archives, hidden practices: debates about music-making. UA Editora

2020. Navarro-Cáceres, M., Caetano, M., Bernardes, G. Objective Evaluation of Tonal Fitness for Chord Progressions Using the Tonal Interval Space. In Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_11

2019. Bernardes, G. Um novo virtuosismo no saxofone. In A. Martingo & A. Telles (Eds.), Musica Intrumentalis: Experimentação e Técnicas não convencionais nos séculos XX e XXI. Húmus

2018. Aly, L., Penha, R. Bernardes, G. DIGIT: A Digital Foley System to Generate Footstep Sounds. In  M. Aramaki et al. (Eds.) Music technology with Swing (pp. 151-170). Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, vol. 11265. Springer Nature Switzerland. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01692-0_28

2018. Bernardes, G., Davies, M., Guedes, C. A hierarchical harmonic mixing method. In  M. Aramaki et al. (Eds.) Music technology with Swing (pp. 151-170). Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, vol. 11265. Springer Nature Switzerland. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01692-0_11

2018. Cerqueira, J., Clemente, M., Bernardes, G., Van Twillert, H., Portela, A., Gabriel, J., Vasconcelos, M. Thermographic evaluation of the saxophonists embouchure. In: J. Tavares & Jorge R. Natal. (eds) VipIMAGE 2017. ECCOMAS 2017 (pp 1069-1078). Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 27. Springer.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_119

2015. Navarro, M., Caetano, M., Bernardes, G., de Castro, L. N., & Corchado, J. M. Automatic Generation of Chord Progressions with an Artificial Immune System. In Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (pp. 175-186). Springer International Publishing

2014. Bernardes, G. & Davies, M. E. P. Beyond Music Information Retrieval: A Proposed Model for Automatic Generation of Dialogic Music. In Zagalo, N., Oliveira, S., (Eds) (2014),  Abordagens da Narrativa nos Media, CECS/UM, Braga. ISBN: 978-989-8600-31-8

2013. Bernardes, G., Guedes, C., & Pennycook, B. (2013). EarGram: An Application for Interactive Exploration of Concatenative Sound Synthesis in Pure Data. In M. Aramaki, M. Barthet, R. Kronland-Martinet, & S. Ystad (Eds.), From Sounds to Music and Emotions (pp. 110-129). Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, vol. 7900. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41248-6_7

Encyclopaedia Articles

2019. Bernardes, G. & Cocharro, D. Dynamic Music Generation, Audio Analysis-Synthesis Methods. Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer International Publishing

2018. Aly, L. Penha, R. & Bernardes, G. Bio-Sensing in Interactive Art: A User Centered Taxonomy. Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer International Publishing

Conference Proceedings

2023. Forero, J., Bernardes, G., Mendes, M. Emotional Machines: Toward Affective Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the ArtsIT. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28993-4_28

2023. Torresan, C., Bernardes, G., Caetano, E., Restivo, T. The singing bridge: sonification of a stress-ribbon footbridge. Proceedings of the ArtsIT. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28993-4_25

2022. Almeida, F., Bernardes, G., Weiss, C. Mid-level Harmonic Audio Features for Musical Style Classification. Proceedings of the ISMIR. Bengaluru, India, pp. 210-217. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7316632

2022. Forero, J., Bernardes, G., Mendes, M. Emotional Machines: Toward an Affective Virtual Environment. Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. Lisbon, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3549973

2022. Aly, L., Bota, P., Godinho, L., Bernardes, G., Silva, H. Acting emotions: physiological correlates of emotional valence and arousal dynamics in theatre. ACM Interactive Media Experiences. Aveiro, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505284.3532985

2021. Barboza, J., Magalhães, E., & Bernardes, G. Towards Best Practices in Spatial Audio Post Production: A Case Study of Brazilian Popular Music. International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio. Bologna, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1109/I3DA48870.2021.9610908

2021. Gonçalo Bernardo and Gilberto Bernardes. Leveraging Compatibility and Diversity in Computational Music Mashup Creation. Audio Mostly. Trento, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478424

2021. Cláudio Lemos, Diogo Cocharro and Gilberto Bernardes. Understanding Cross-Genre Rhythmic Audio Compatibility: A Computational Approach. Audio Mostly. Trento, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478418

2021. Pereira, S., Bernardes, G. The Atonal Harmonic Syntax in Fourier’s Space. Proceedings of the Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música, Coimbra, Portugal

2021. Animashaun, A. & Bernardes, G. Noise promotes disengagement in dementia patients during non-invasive neurorehabilitation treatment. Conference: Doctoral Congress in Engineering: Symposium on Occupational Safety and Health, Porto, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.24840/978-972-752-279-8_0009-0014

2021. Lopes, D., Bernardes, G., Aly, L., & Forero, J. Tumaracatu: An Embodied Digital Musical Experience of Maracatu. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music. Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5564751

2021. Carvalho, N., Gonzalez-Gutierrez, S., Sanchez-Jara, J., Bernardes, G., & Navarro-Cáceres, M. Encoding, Analysing and Modeling I-Folk: A New Database of Iberian Folk Music. 8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469013.3469023

2021. Bernardes, G., Ramoneda, P., & Miron, M. Unveiling High-level Discriminant Harmonic Descriptors of Musical Style in the Tonal Interval Space. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

2021. Carvalho, N., Bernardes, G. SyVMO: Synchronous Variable Markov Oracle for modeling and predicting multi-part musical structures dependencies.  10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. Seville, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_3

2021. Sousa, D., Bernardes, G., Correia, N. Ninja Turtles Race: A Reaction Time Test to study and assess the focus of attention, motor and cognitive skills in children’s learning processes. Proceedings of the International Technology, Education and Development Conference. Valencia, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.0983

2020. Pereira, S., Bernardes, G. The Fourier phase sphere: a method for computer-assisted atonal composition. Proceedings of the International Congress of Music and Mathematics (MusMat)

2020. Cruz, C., Magalhães, E., Bernardes, G. AcouRe: Streamlining the generation of immersive soundscapes from monophonic sources. Proceedings of the Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium. Funchal, Portugal

2020. Ramoneda, P. & Bernardes, G. Revisiting Harmonic Change Detection. Proceedings of the 149th Audio Engineering Society Convention. Audio Engineering Society. http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=20945

2020. Ramires, A., Bernardes, G., Davies, M.E.P., & Serra, X. TIV.Lib: An Open-Sounce Library for the Tonal Description of Musical Audio.  International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. Vienna, Austria

2020. Arandas, L., Carvalhais, M., Grierson, M., Bernardes, G., Penha, R.  Facing a Middle-Ground of Symbolic Importance in Artificial Co-Creative Systems.  International Conference on Computational Creativity. Coimbra, Portugal

2020. Carvalho, N. & Bernardes, G. Towards balanced tunes: A review of symbolic music representations and their hierarchical modeling. International Conference on Computational Creativity. Coimbra, Portugal

2020. Bernardes, G. Interfacing Sounds: Hierarchical Audio-Content Morphologies for Creative Re-purposing in earGram. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Birmingham, UK

2020. Pessoa, M., Parauta, C., Luís, P., Corintha, I., Bernardes, G. Examining Temporal Trends and Design Goals of Digital Music Instruments for Education in NIME: A Proposed Taxonomy. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Birmingham, UK

2020. Magalhães, E., Jacob, J., Nilsson, N. Nordahl, R., Bernardes, G. Physics-based Concatenative Sound Synthesis of Photogrammetric models for Aural and Haptic Feedback in Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the IEEE VR Workshop on Sonic Interaction in Virtual Environments. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00081

2019. Arandas, L., Gomes, J., Bernardes, G., & Penha, R. Never The Less: A Performance on Networked Art. Procedings of the xCoAx – Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Milan, Italy

2019. Aly, L., Penha, R., & Bernardes, G. Performative Sound Design: a bio-signal control metaphor for theatre sound design. Proceedings of the Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE). FEUP, Porto

2019.  Almeida, I., Cabral, G. & Bernardes, G. AMIGO: An Assistive Musical Instrument to Engage, Create and Learn Music. Proceedings of International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 168-169, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2019. Magalhães, E., Bernardes, G., Høeg, E., Pedersen,  J., Serafin, S., & Nordhal, R. Combining Texture-Derived Vibrotactile Feedback, Concatenative Synthesis and Photogrammetry for Virtual Reality Rendering. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 348-355, Málaga, Spain

2018. Pereira, J., Bernardes, G., Penha, R. MusikVerb: A harmonically adaptive audio reverberation. Proceedings of the Digital  Audio Effects (DAFx) Conference, Aveiro, Portugal

2018.  Maçãs, C., Rodrigues, A.,  Bernardes, G., &  Machado, P.. Mixmash: A visualisation system for musical mashup creation. 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation

2017. Bernardes, G., Davies, M.E.P., & Guedes, C. A Perceptually-Motivated Harmonic Compatibility Method for Music Mixing. International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), pp. 104-115, Matosinhos, Portugal

2017. Caetano, G., Bernardes, G., Twillert, H., Clemente, M., Gabriel, J. A Sensor-Augmented Saxophone Mouthpiece for Unveiling the Mechanics of  Saxophone Tone Formation. International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), pp. 459-469, Matosinhos, Portugal

2017. Aly, L., Penha, R., Bernardes, G. DIGIT: An Assistive System for the Generation of Footstep Sounds in Audio Post Production. International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), pp. 295-306, Matosinhos, Portugal

2017. Brásio, M., Lopes, F., Bernardes, G., & Penha, R. Qualia – A Software for Guided Meta-Improvisation Performance. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp.58-62, Helsinki, Finland

2017. Bernardes, G., Davies, M., & Guedes, C. Automatic Musical Key Estimation with mode Bias. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, pp. 316-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952169

2017. Pereira, J, Bernardes, G., & Penha, R. Musically-Informed Adaptive Audio Reverberation. Book of Abstracts of the 2nd Symposium on Electrical and Computers Engineering, pp. 22-23, Porto, Portugal. (Best oral communication award)

2016. Bernardes, G. & Davies, M. Audio Key Finding in the Tonal Interval Space. Submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) — Audio Key Detection

2016. Bernardes, G., Aly, L., Davies, M. SEED: Resynthesizing Environmental Sounds from Examples. Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 55-62, Hamburg, Germany

2016. Penha, R., Bernardes, G. Beatings: A Web Application to Foster the Renaissance of the Art of Musical Temperaments, Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 402-406. Hamburg, Germany

2016. Cabrita, N. & Bernardes, G. Relational interactive art: a framework for interaction in a social context. Expressive 2016, Computational Aesthetics—(bridging papers). http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/exp.20161264

2015. Bernardes, G., Davies, M., & Guedes, C. A Pure Data Spectro-Morphological Toolkit for Sound-Based Composition. Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Winds, pp. 31-38. Aveiro, PT

2015. Bernardes, G., Cocharro, D., Guedes, C., & Davies, M.E.P. Conchord: An Application for Generating Musical Harmony by Navigating in a Perceptually Motivated Tonal Interval Space. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR), (pp. 71-86). Plymouth, UK

2015. Beyls, P., Bernardes, G., & Caetano, M. The Emergence of Complex Behavior as an Organizational Paradigm for Concatenative Sound Synthesis. Proceedings of the xCoAx Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2014. Bernardes, G.,  Davies, M. E. P., Guedes, C., & Pennycook, B. Considering Roughness to Describe and Generate Vertical Musical Structure in Content-Based Algorithmic-Assisted Audio Composition. Proceedings of the Joint International Computer Music and Sound and Music Computing Conference, 318-324

2012. Bernardes, G., Peixoto de Pinho, N., Lourenço, S., Guedes, C., Pennycook, B., & Oña, E. The Creative Process Behind Dialogismos I: Theoretical and Technical Considerations. Proceedings of the ARTECH 2012 – 6th International Conference on Digital Arts. Algarve, Portugal

2012. Bernardes, G., Guedes, C., & Pennycook, B. EarGram: an Application for Interactive Exploration of Large Databases of Audio Snippets for Creative Purposes. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR), London, UK

2010. Bernardes, G., Guedes, C., & Pennycook, B. Style Emulation of Drum Patterns by Means of Evolutionary Methods and Statistical Analysis, Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, Barcelona, Spain