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[9 Apr 2013 | One Comment | 218 views]

For quite some time now this year’s Cozzarelli Prize winners have been announced, and I’m proudly in their midst, thanks mainly to the incredible work Bob MacCallum and Armand Leroi did on our paper on the “Evolution of

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[5 Feb 2013 | No Comment | 590 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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[8 Mai 2012 | No Comment | 371 views]
DarwinTunes at the Imperial Festival this weekend

There’s a big science festival this week at Imperial College:
the Imperial Festival.

There’ll be “hands-on demonstrations, music, comedy, dancing and art”, and: “Food and drinks are available throughout, just drop in at any time.”

I’ve been involved…

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[26 Mrz 2012 | One Comment | 1,131 views]

A few months ago I disabled comments on my site — it was just so annoying to get all that spam. Now I’ve started them again, with a simple captcha, but my guess is that I’m going to get fed…

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[24 Mrz 2011 | No Comment | 1,225 views]
Noise in London

Having spent some time at Queen Mary University in Mile End, London, I’ve been drawn to think about noise pollution again: there’s just so much around. Bus engine noise, ambulance/police car sirens and Underground train noise seem to be significantly…

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[11 Feb 2011 | One Comment | 1,600 views]
Peep into my toolbox 3: Sonic Visualiser

In the current Science Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data Peter Fox and James Hendler write of visualisation as an “exploration tool allowing scientists to form better hypotheses in the continually more data-intensive scientific process”. In my daily work…

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[31 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 445 views]

I’ve recently arrived in London and I’m looking forward to showing you the lyrics-to-audio alignment work I did with Hiromasa Fujihara and Masataka Goto at AIST in Japan. My talk will give a short introduction to the underlying technology and…

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[7 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 525 views]
Peep into my toolbox 2: Matlab

Matlab, I have to say it, is fabulous. This may be controversial, but I’d like it not to be. Matlab is a programming language for trying stuff out, prototyping, and research. I’m aware of some alternatives, and I do use…

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[5 Jan 2011 | 3 Comments | 670 views]
Peep into my toolbox 1:  screen

I’m a researcher in music information retrieval, and I will tell you about the software tools I use, hoping that you will be able to read about some you might not have heard of. None of the tools I use…