I’m currently at the ISMIR conference in Porto, Portugal. Very nice conference — and I’m hoping to contribute to that some more by presenting Sam Myer’s “Chordroid” real-time chord detection tool, which works on Android devices. In fact, I’ve actually…

In the heat of the moment I’ve got two things wrong in my paper entitled Timbre and Melody Features for the Recognition of Vocal Activity and Instrumental Solos in Polyphonic Music. First of all I apologise to Ferdinand Fuhrmann,…

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…

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. 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,…

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.…

@inproceedings{mauch:spa:2010,
Author = {Tidhar, D. and Fazekas, G. and Mauch, M. and Dixon, S.},
Booktitle = {Late-breaking session at the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Utrecht, Netherlands (ISMIR 2010)},
Title = {Temperament Estimation as an {MIR}…

Shared data enable researchers to reliably com- pare their results with others. The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) has a tradition of providing ground truth data for research, and our chord, on- set and segmentation annotations have been used by…