Asteris Zacharakis' Publications

Journal Publications

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.

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), 337-356.

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. 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, 17th International Conference on Sound Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Tokyo, Japan.

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.