Subjective Evaluation of Music Compressed with the ACER Codec Compared to AAC, MP3, and Uncompressed PCM by Stuart Cunningham, Iain McGregor

“…Our previous research presented a novel codec named ACER (Audio Compression Exploiting Repetition), which achieves data reduction by exploiting irrelevancy and redundancy in musical structure whilst generally maintaining acceptable levels of noise and distortion in objective evaluations. …”
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Improved speech enhancement based on spectral subtraction and auditory masking effect by ZHAO Xiao-qun, HUANG Xiao-shan

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What if writing rock history was also writing with “ifs”? Or how Lester Bangs liked playing a trick on his reader’s perception of time by Maud Berthomier

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Prolegomena zu einer Systematik der syntaktischen Formen ›Satz‹ und ›Periode‹. 1. Teil: Carl Dahlhaus und die Schönbergschule by Stefan Rohringer

“…Caplin, who has taken on the task of transferring the Dahlhaus’ concept of ›functionality‹ to the theory of musical form.…”
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“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambition makes you look [pretty] ugly”: Mass consumption and computer-generated art in Radiohead’s OK Computer by François Hugonnier

“…In spite of its ironic playfulness, OK Computer will not escape the commercial and technological mutations it scrutinizes: it is therefore acknowledging, in a performative way, the computer’s win over the band’s scope and music. OK Computer being thoroughly transmedia, all the elements (musical, linguistic and visual) surrounding its 1997 release are taken into account in this article, which analyses the paradox of mass-consumption denunciation, engages in cryptic decoding, and envisions this record as the first step in the band’s innovative adjustments to new technologies, be they musical or commercial.…”
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Application of Perceptual Filtering Models to Noisy Speech Signals Enhancement by Novlene Zoghlami, Zied Lachiri

“…The importance of an accurate noise estimate is related to the reduction of the musical noise artifacts in the processed speech that appears after classic subtractive process. …”
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Silent Pasts and a Reconfigured Present in Histories of Chinese (New) Opera by Annie Yen-Ling Liu

“…The ‘New Chinese Opera’, which emerged in the 1940s, has become a significant part of the performance repertoire, a ‘hot’ research topic and an indispensable subject of historical surveys of Chinese music. The subject matter of these operas ranges from historical events (as in Honghu Red Guards of 1958) to stories drawn from classic Chinese novels (as in Camel Xiangzi of 2014). …”
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DIE LISZTSCHE IRONIE IN DER SCHILDERUNG DES „MEPHISTOPHELISCHEN“ IM DRITTEN TEIL DER „FAUST-SYMPHONIE“ by Miklós FEKETE

“…The musical analysis intends to identify and exemplify the most important lisztian procedures, through which the thematic material presented in the musical discourse of the Faust part will be mocked and distorted by the Mephistophelian character. …”
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An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture by Alfons Puigarnau

“…Economic history has distorted this period’s intellectual and cultural history. …”
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