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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’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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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…
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Abstract: We present Song Prompter, a software system that acts as a performance assistant by showing horizontally scrolling lyrics and chords in a graphical user interface, together with an audio accompaniment consisting of bass and MIDI drums. Both alignment and…
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It was a rather small step for us, but may increase the fun of playing with Chordino by a lot: in addition to the chord estimate, you can now choose a note output that returns the pitch classes of the…
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In the photo: Masataka Goto (right) explaining the speech-recognition web service Podcastle to Katy Noland.
I can’t hide being impressed by Podcastle (http://podcastle.jp/). It’s a web-crawling speech recognizer that munches whole podcast series and provides you with a transcription.…
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I’m really glad that Chris Cannam from the Centre for Digital Music recently asked me to publish some of my research code I developed there as open source software… we proudly present NNLS Chroma and Chordino! While NNLS-Chroma may…
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Take a look at the image that comes with the article: it depicts a poster in which my boss Masataka Goto is featured on a painting (!) inviting everyone to come to his public lecture. When I grow up I…