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[18 Feb 2013 | No Comment | 231 views]
Descent of Pop — Irish radio interview

I just had the most pleasant radio interview with Sean Moncrieff of Newstalk Radio, Dublin. From what I can tell it’s a great, interesting show in general, endorsed by the Open University. I seem to have got my point…

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[18 Feb 2013 | No Comment | 353 views]
Vocal/instrumental activity ground truth data

I thought it might be high time to remind the world of the ground truth data (zip archive here) that my colleagues at AIST and I annotated, and which accompanies my paper on vocal/instrumental solo detection. On the…

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[5 Feb 2013 | No Comment | 524 views]
Descent of Pop: help us out listening to music

I’ve been involved in measuring the evolution of the charts for quite a while (at Last.fm, see the Anatomy of the Charts), and we’re opening a new chapter now. That new chapter needs your help! We want to dump…

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[9 Okt 2012 | No Comment | 600 views]

It was fun to present the work I did with Simon to the people at ISMIR. Some people seemed to have liked it, so thanks for that. This video is a test run of the presentation I did last night,…

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[10 Sep 2012 | No Comment | 454 views]
Songle with SoundCloud content

Our Songle.jp web service for interactive music analysis and annotation can now analyse and playback PIAPRO and SoundCloud content. This great new development from my old research group around Masataka Goto at AIST in Japan means that the number…

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[2 Aug 2012 | No Comment | 303 views]
I’ll be on Radio 4

… or so I’m told, in a programme about DarwinTunes and other music stuff involving evolution, it’s called Darwin’s Tunes. Ah, well, it should be interesting anyway, so set your alarm clocks for next Wednesday at 9 pm (British…

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[25 Jul 2012 | No Comment | 413 views]
Last.fm are making progress on audio descriptors

I’m very happy to see that my old colleagues at Last.fm are pushing ahead with their research on audio descriptors — and indeed the psychology of human music labelling. Under the tongue-in-cheek title ‘Advanced Robotics’, a new blog post

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[18 Jun 2012 | No Comment | 620 views]
No composer, no musicians — the science of crowd-sourced music evolution

“Britain doesn’t need talent” is what Bob MacCallum and Armand Leroi, both at Imperial College, called the DarwinTunes demo at the Imperial Festival just a few weeks ago. What we weren’t allowed to tell anyone back then was…

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[23 Apr 2012 | No Comment | 416 views]
What would you do if I sang out of tune?

I’m excited to welcome Dr Klaus Frieler to Queen Mary — he’s the first researcher on a project initiated by me. Together with Simon Dixon, Klaus and I are going to look into how singers stay in tune,…

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[22 Mrz 2012 | One Comment | 353 views]

The other week I got the amazing invitation to “represent” the Royal Academy of Engineering at a weird little event called Voice of the Future. In a nutshell, it was a bit like prime minister’s question time, only that…