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After way to much time, I’ve finally managed to upload a OSX universal binary of the NNLS Chroma Vamp library. If you’re using OSX and NNLS Chroma, this should make it significantly faster… thanks to the tech miracle that…
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It was my first ever Music Hack Day, and despite being sceptical at the beginning, I was eventually won over by the average quality of all the hacks. My positive impression was—let’s say—enhanced by the fact that the hack Sven…
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Today at ISMIR Masataka Goto finally presented Songle.jp - our web service for “active music listening and content-based music browsing”. It’s awesome. I’m really proud I’m part of it: I did the chord, beat and bar annotation code. But,…
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As a supplement to my ISMIR paper, I now opened up the Structural Change code in a Last.fm github repository. Thanks to Last.fm for letting me do this.
As anyone reading the paper may have spotted, it’s a…
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I was invited by Dan Tidhar to present at last week’s visualisation workshop at King’s. It’s been a very pleasant experience, and and we discussed quite a broad range of topics, triggered by the different presentations. Mine was possibly the…
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I’ve been awarded a 5 year research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering for my project “Software Systems for Computer-Aided Music Understanding”. My work will be carried out at the Centre for Digital Music, part of Queen…
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Another week has passed, and I’ve been working on some cool stuff with the help of Mark Levy: figuring out the history of rhythmic regularity and tempo in the charts. It’s all described in the new Last.fm blog post.…
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This time, I dug a bit deeper into the audio to unearth a specific audio characteristic: the simplicity of punk music. Check it out at the Last.fm blog. I was astonished we could actually “rank” artists into a list…
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I’m enjoying my work at Last.fm, and we’ve just decided it’s cool enough to make it to a Last.fm blog post. In fact, it’s the start of a short series of blog post, in which I write about the…
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I’m very pleased to announce the first openly accessible outcome to my work at Last.fm: Audio Flowers. We’ve analysed audio of about 17,000 tracks with our new complexity detector, then visualised the outcome as “Audio Flowers”. If you want…

