Abstract: Recent advances in music signal processing and the speed of desktop computers have facilitated the automation of many aspects of the analysis of music recordings. For example, the extraction of semantic metadata such as genre, key, chord and beat…

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…

We present our submission MD1 to the Chord Estimation Task of the 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2010). The front-end chroma generation is based on a new implementation of NNLS Chroma (http://www.isophonics.net/nnls-chroma) as a Vamp plugin. The…

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…

Abstract. Context information is vital in musical listening. We present a chord transcription algorithm using dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN) that achieves context-awareness by simultaneously estimating beat position, key, bass note and the chord itself. The given data are audio waves…

Abstract. We present a new genre classification framework using both low-level signal-based features and high-level harmony features. A state of-the-art statistical genre classifier based on timbral features is extended using a first-order random forest containing for each genre rules derived…

Abstract. The identification of recurrent patterns in chord progressions into meaningful units is a useful tool for a variety of tasks in automatic music processing and analysis, e.g. for the identification of song sections and the induction of song structure,…

Abstract. Issues concerning tuning and temperament bear relevance to music research in areas such as historical musicology, performance and recording studies, and music perception. We have recently demonstrated that it is possible to classify keyboard temperament automatically from audio recordings…

We present Song Prompter, a software system that acts as a performance guide by showing horizontally scrolling lyrics, chords, beats marks and bar marks in a graphical user interface, together with an audio accompaniment consisting of bass and MIDI drums.…

Abstract. This thesis is concerned with the automatic transcription of chords from audio, with an emphasis on modern popular music. Musical context such as the key and the structural segmentation aid the interpretation of chords in human beings. In this…