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The music of Northern Myanmar Kachin ethnic group is compared to the music ofwestern China, Xijiang based Uyghur music, using timbre and pitch featureextraction and machine learning. Although separated by Tibet, the muqamtradition of Xinjiang might be found in Kachin music due to myths of Kachinorigin, as well as linguistic similarities, e.g., the Kachin term 'makan' for amusical piece. Extractions were performed using the apollon and COMSAR(Computational Music and Sound Archiving) frameworks, on which the EthnographicSound Recordings Archive (ESRA) is based, using ethnographic recordings fromESRA next to additional pieces. In terms of pitch, tonal systems were comparedusing Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM), which clearly clusters Kachin andUyghur musical pieces. This is mainly caused by the Xinjiang muqam musicshowing just fifth and fourth, while Kachin pieces tend to have a higher fifthand fourth, next to other dissimilarities. Also, the timbre features ofspectral centroid and spectral sharpness standard deviation clearly tellsUyghur from Kachin pieces, where Uyghur music shows much larger deviations.Although more features will be compared in the future, like rhythm or melody,these already strong findings might introduce an alternative comparisonmethodology of ethnic groups beyond traditional linguistic definitions.

Computational timbre and tonal system similarity analysis of the music  of Northern Myanmar-based Kachin compared to Xinjiang-based Uyghur ethnic  groups