Retrieving the Meaning -- Timbre Perception of Sounds from Impacted Materials: Behavioral, Electrophysiological and Acoustic Approaches -- Perception of Harmonic and Inharmonic Sounds: Results from Ear Models -- Semantic Contours in Tracks Based on Emotional Tags -- Chunking Sound for Musical Analysis -- Towards a Model of Musical Chunks -- Does Social Interaction Activate Music Listeners? -- Musically Meaningful or Just Noise? An Analysis of On-line Artist Networks -- The Pursuit of Happiness in Music: Retrieving Valence with Contextual Music Descriptors -- Perception of Impacted Materials: Sound Retrieval and Synthesis Control Perspectives -- Refinement Strategies for Music Synchronization -- Labelling the Structural Parts of a Music Piece with Markov Models -- Tree Representation in Combined Polyphonic Music Comparison -- Interval Distinction on Melody Perception for Music Information Retrieval -- A Learning-Based Model for Musical Data Representation Using Histograms -- Generating the Meaning: Tools and Performance -- Ontological Substance and Meaning in Live Electroacoustic Music -- Dynamic Mapping Strategies for Expressive Synthesis Performance and Improvisation -- Amplified Breath – (Dis)Embodied Habitat: Exploring Sonic Interfaces of Performance, Electronics, Space and Flautist Identity -- KSQuant - Complex Score Manipulation in PWGL through Quantization -- Strategies and Methods for Creating Symbolic Electroacoustic Scores in ENP -- An IEEE 1599-Based Interface for Score Analysis -- New Music in the Atomic Age.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2008 - Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented were specially reviewed and corrected for this proceedings volume. CMMR 2008 seeks to enlarge upon the Sense of Sounds-concept by taking into account the musical structure as a whole. More precisely, the workshop will have as its theme Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music. The purpose is hereby to establish rigorous research alliances between computer and engineering sciences (information retrieval, programming, acoustics, signal processing) and areas within the humanities (in particular perception, cognition, musicology, philosophy), as well as to globally address the notion of sound meaning and its implications in music, modeling and retrieval.