Asteris Zacharakis' Publications

Journal Publications

Velenis, K., Zacharakis, A., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2026). Beyond fundamental frequency: Pitch height judgments in Indefinite-Pitch sounds. JASA Express Letters, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043569

Spence, C., Di Stefano, N., Reinoso-Carvalho, F., Mesz, B., & Zacharakis, A. (2026). ‘Play the fragrance’: Designing musical soundscapes to match fragrances based on olfactory-auditory crossmodal correspondences. i-Perception, 17(1), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695251409265

Zacharakis A. (2025). The poetry of senses: exploring semantic mediation in timbre-aroma correspondences, Frontiers in Psychology, 16,

doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1520046

Zacharakis A. (2024). Sonic Bouquet: Decoding Cross-Modal Correspondences Between Timbre and Scent, Music & Science, 7, doi:10.1177/20592043241274258

Zacharakis A. & Pastiadis K. (2021). Interaction between time-varying tone inharmonicity, fundamental frequency and spectral shape affects felt tension and timbral semantics, Acta Acustica, 5(21), https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2021007.

Zacharakis, A., Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Kalaitzidou, S., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2021). Evaluating Human-Computer Co-creative Processes in Music: A Case Study on the CHAMELEON Melodic Harmonizer, Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 322.

Caetano, M., Zacharakis, A., Barbancho, I., & Tardón, L. J. (2019). Leveraging diversity in computer-aided musical orchestration with an artificial immune system for multi-modal optimization, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.

Zacharakis, A., Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Tsougras, C., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2018). Musical Blending and Creativity: An Empirical Evaluation of the CHAMELEON Melodic Harmonisation Assistant, Musicae Scientiae, 22(2), 119-144.

Zacharakis, A., Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Tsougras, C., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2017). Creating musical cadences via conceptual blending: Empirical evaluation and enhancement of a formal model, Music Perception, 35(2), 211-234.

Zacharakis, A., Terrell, M. J., Simpson, A. J., Pastiadis, K., & Reiss J. D. (2017). Rearrangement of Timbre Space Due To Background Noise: Behavioural Evidence and Acoustic Correlates, Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 103(2), 288-298.

Zacharakis, A. & Pastiadis, K. (2016). Revisiting the Luminance-Texture-Mass Model for Musical Timbre Semantics: A Confirmatory Approach and Perspectives of Extension, J. Audio Eng. Soc., 64(9), 636-645.

Zacharakis, A., Pastiadis, K., & Reiss, J. D. (2015). An Interlanguage Unification of Musical Timbre: Bridging Semantic, Perceptual, and Acoustic Dimensions, Music Perception, 32(4), 394-412.

Zacharakis, A., Pastiadis, K., & Reiss, J. D. (2014). An Interlanguage Study of Musical Timbre Semantic Dimensions and Their Acoustic Correlates, Music Perception, 31(4), 339-358.

Hadjidimitriou, S. K., Zacharakis, A. I., Doulgeris, P. C., Panoulas, K. J., Hadjileontiadis, L. J., & Panas, S. M. (2011). Revealing audiomotor integration processes using fractal EEG analysis: A mirror neurons-based approach, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 58(4), 1120-1129.

Hadjidimitriou, S. K., Zacharakis, A. I., Doulgeris, P. C., Panoulas, K. J., Hadjileontiadis, L. J., & Panas, S. M. (2010). Sensorimotor cortical response during motion reflecting audiovisual stimulation: evidence from fractal EEG analysis, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 48(6), 561-572.

Conference Publications

Zacharakis A., Velenis. K., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2025). Between Bouba and Kiki lies Grougi: Modelling the Rough Middle Ground of Sound–Shape Correspondences, In Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR2025) (pp. 93-104), London, UK.

Zacharakis A., Vlaikidou, A., Velenis. K., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2025). Facets of audio-visual roughness: from granularity to sharpness, In Proceedings of the 22nd Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2025) (pp. 358-364), Graz, Austria.

Velenis. K., Zacharakis A., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2025). Soundsketcher: graphical representation of sound based on Crossmodal audiovisual correspondences, In Proceedings of the 22nd Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2025) (pp. 342-349), Graz, Austria.

Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Zacharakis, A., Velenis, K., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2024). Rebetiko Singer Identification: Fine-tuning and explaining deep pretrained transformer models. In Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures (pp. 285-291), Milan, Italy.

Zacharakis, A., Gkougkoustamou, E., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2024). Audio feature extraction for the analysis of singing voices from Greek Rebetiko, In Proceedings of the Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research, Lisbon, Portugal.

Zacharakis, A., & Cambouropoulos, A. (2024). The evolution of Stelios Kazantzidis’ voice from the 1950s to the 1970s, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Musics (AAWM 2024), Bologna, Italy.

Danieli, L., Zacharakis, A., & Noble, J. (2024). Analysis of Events Perception and Noisy Components in Four Electroacoustic Music Works, In Proceedings of the Noise Floor 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

Zacharakis, A. Michail, I. & Pastiadis, K. (2023). The scent of a timbre: cross-modal correspondences between synthetic timbres and essential oil aromas, In M. Caetano, Z. Wallmark, A. Zacharakis, C. Saitis, & K. Siedenburg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Timbre, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 68-72.

Zacharakis, A. Kazazis, S. & Cambouropoulos, E. (2023). Marika Ninou vs. Sotiria Bellou: a timbral comparison between two iconic female singers in Rebetiko, In M. Caetano, Z. Wallmark, A. Zacharakis, C. Saitis, & K. Siedenburg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Timbre, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 52-56.

Kalaitzidou, M., Zacharakis, A., Velenis, K., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2023). Multiple exposures and repeating musical patterns shape perception of musical ideas and structure, In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Sound Perception and Cognition (ICMPC2023), Tokyo, Japan.

Zacharakis, A., Hayes, B., Saitis, C., & Pastiadis, K. (2020). Evidence for timbre space robustness to an uncontrolled online stimulus presentation, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Timbre, Thessaloniki, Greece (online).

Zacharakis, A., Kalaitzidou, M., Kalaikatsos-Papakostas, M., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2020). Good artists copy, great artists steal: strategies for creative exploitation of the CHAMELEON harmonisation assistant, In Proceedings of the 17th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2020), Torino, Italy (online), pp. 228-233.

Zacharakis, A., & Pastiadis, K. (2018). Examining the Influence of Tone Inharmonicity on Felt Tension and Timbral Semantics. Timbre 2018: Timbre Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 134-135

Zacharakis, A., Pastiadis, K., & Katsanevaki, A. (2018). Tension perception in Greek traditional folk music: Examining the role of timbral semantics. 8th International Workshop in Folk Music Analysis (FMA 2018).

Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Confalonieri, R., Corneli, J., Zacharakis, A., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2016). An Argument-based Creative Assistant for Harmonic Blending. 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC16).

Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Makris, D., Zacharakis A., Tsougras, C., & Cambouropoulos, E. (2016). Learning and Blending Harmonies in the Context of a Melodic Harmonisation Assistant, In Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, pp.520-527.

Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Zacharakis A., Tsougras, C., & Cambouropoulos, E., (2016). Modelling Cadence Perception Via Musical Parameter Tuning to Perceptual Data, In Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, pp.552-561.

Zacharakis, A., & Pastiadis, K. (2015). A confirmatory approach of the Luminance-Texture-Mass model for musical timbre semantics. In Proceedings of Audio Mostly (AM'15).

Zacharakis, A., Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., & Cambouropoulos E. (2015). Conceptual Blending in Musical Cadences: a Formal Model and Subjective Evaluation, In Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 15).

Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Zacharakis, A., Tsougras, C., & Cambouropoulos E. (2015). Evaluating and Extending the General Chord Type Representation for Automatic Chord Labelling, In Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 15).

Zacharakis, Α., Pastiadis, K., Reiss, J. D., & Papadelis, G. (2012). Analysis of musical timbre semantics through metric and non-metric data reduction techniques, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 12) and the 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 08), pp. 1177–1182.

Zacharakis, A., Pastiadis, K., Papadelis, G., & Reiss, J. D. (2011). An investigation of musical timbre: Uncovering salient semantic descriptors and perceptual dimensions, In Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 12), pages 807–812.

Zacharakis, A., & Reiss, J. (2011). An additive synthesis technique for independent modification of the auditory perceptions of brightness and warmth, In Proceedings of the 130th Audio Engineering Society Convention.

Hadjidimitriou, S. K., Zacharakis, A. I., Doulgeris, P. C., Panoulas, K. J., Hadjileontiadis, L. J., & Panas, S. M. (2009). Monitoring of Musical ‘Motion’in EEG Using Bispectral Analysis: A Mirror Neurons-based Approach, In the 4th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (pp. 1290-1293). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.