The four questions below appear as survey participants saw them for the listener study described in the ICCC 2012 submission, Generating a Complete Multipart Musical Composition from a Single Monophonic Melody with Functional Scaffolding. The accompaniment tracks in MP3 2 were generated by FSMC. The first MP3 is generated by FSMC alone and serves as a control.

Survey

MP3 1

MP3 2

1: Have you heard of NEAT Drummer or of Functional Scaffolding for Musical Composition?

No

Yes

2: Rate your level of musical expertise.

(1 is no musical experience and 10 is much higher than average experience with music)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3: Rate MP3 1 on a scale of one to ten.

(1 is the worst and 10 is the best)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4: Rate MP3 2 on a scale of one to ten.

(1 is the worst and 10 is the best)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10