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Our Songle.jp web service for interactive music analysis and annotation can now analyse and playback PIAPRO and SoundCloud content. This great new development from my old research group around Masataka Goto at AIST in Japan means that the number…
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Strictly non-professional: I’ve seen the amazing Olympic Torch Relay (see my Flickr set!). I actually went twice because, as it happens, it came past Shepherds Bush Common before and after the excursion to White City. Ah, what a great…
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I’m very happy to see that my old colleagues at Last.fm are pushing ahead with their research on audio descriptors — and indeed the psychology of human music labelling. Under the tongue-in-cheek title ‘Advanced Robotics’, a new blog post…
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A big thanks to Dan Stowell for making the brilliant Yanno web application, which uses my Chordino Vamp plugin to extract the chords of any YouTube video you like. For example, say you find a video of…
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I have had a great time in Utrecht talking (see my slides) and listening to stuff about harmony — quite inspiring at times.
Yesterday it was a pleasure to see Bas de Haas (check out his mafioso photo) get his PhD in a public defense ceremony that was quite different to my own (which was two people asking me about my thesis for about two hours in a small meeting room at Queen Mary): audience, jury and the candidate convened in a grand hall clad with paintings of (I assume) the old greats of Utrecht scholarship. The opponents, clad in robes and wearing hats…
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The Last.fm headquarters in London felt a bit like a university lab for a few hours as Tom Walters visited this Tuesday. We persuaded him to tell us a bit about his research, and he explained and demo’d his
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Both McGill and New York University have announced the release of separate new chord ground truth data sets. Taemin Cho of New York University announced around 300 songs, among which all the RWC pop song collection. The data is going…
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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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A rather nice compliment, I find: Infosthetics blog about my Audio Flowers. What’s particularly nice is that they have taken some of the flowers and made a collage out of them. Thanks.