Analysis of Musical Genre to Match Situations by Kansei Analysis of Rhythms

Abstract

The purpose of this study is that systems, which offer the music suitable for feelings of the user who is not only a room but also acting outdoors, are constructed. In this paper, it is tried that user's situations and activities, user's feelings and musical genres are related. Genres of music were chosen six genres of the pop music generally listened to well. And, rhythms with the feature of each genre were extracted, and 11 sample music only of the rhythm were made. Next, Kansei evaluation experiments were done to activity in seven situations including outdoor and indoor environments, and acquired data was analyzed by the correspondence analysis. The relation between the “place and action - feeling” and “musical genres” was shown as a result of obtaining. Also, we tried to construct a simple evaluation system using obtained result, and effectiveness was confirmed.