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midem 2013 trailer
As Paul Lamere, from The Echo Nest, just said in a tweet: “Great to see the hackers [of Midem's Music Hack Day] so well represented in the latest @midem promo...
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When computers listen to music, what do they hear?
** I am adding a few personal comments between the excerpts I selected below. (Olivier) ** Shazam forced us to confront the fact that a computer could hear and process music in a way that we humans...
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An Integrated Framework for Transcription, Modal and Motivic Analysis of...
My Presentation of "An Integrated Framework for Transcription, Modal and Modal and Motivic Analysis of Maqam Improvisation" at the 2nd CompMusic workshop, in Istanbul (Jul 12-13, 2012). The CréMusCult...
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Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific...
[DIGEST:] The study of patterns and long-term variations in popular music could shed new light on relevant issues concerning its organization, structure, and dynamics. More importantly, it addresses...
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How Big Data Became So Big
THIS has been the crossover year for Big Data — as a concept, as a term and, yes, as a marketing tool. Big Data has sprung from the confines of technology circles into the mainstream. First, here are a...
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new Spotify app from Reebok and music intelligence platform The Echo Nest
Music intelligence platform, The Echo Nest, has partnered with Reebok for a Spotify app for fitness fanatics or casual exercisers to get their groove on and motivate themselves into motion.Reebok...
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Can the domains of Music Cognition and Music Information Retrieval inform...
ISMIR (International Society for Music Information Retrieval) conference is a conference on the processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. It attracts a research community that...
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Measuring the goodness or badness of singing, applied...
It is not easy to measure the goodness or badness of singing. There is "no consensus on how to obtain objective measures of singing proficiency in sung melodies".They devised their own test, using the...
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From Japan, a Music Player That Discovers Structure and Rhythm in Songs |...
A cool new music service you've never heard of has hit the web, offering deep insights into the structure and rhythm of popular songs. Created by Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology...
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The Computer as Music Critic
Thanks to advances in computing power, we can analyze music in radically new and different ways. Computers are still far from grasping some of the deep and often unexpected nuances that release our...
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The Echo Nest in Fortune Magazine
“Jehan's research focused on teaching computers to capture the sonic elements of music, while Whitman's studied the cultural and social components. In combining the two approaches they created the Echo...
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The Infinite Jukebox
[Note #1 of Olivier Lartillot, curator: It would be great to add more adaptive Markov modeling on top of that. Cf for instance the Continuator project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynPWOMzossI] [Note...
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BBC - Research and Development: Pickin' up good vibrations
One of the universal appeals of music lies in its mysterious ability to manipulate and reflect our emotions. Even the simplest of tunes can evoke strong feelings of joy, fear,...Olivier Lartillot's...
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The Perfect Classical Music App
A funny thing happened the last time I was taking in a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (just a few minutes ago).Olivier Lartillot's insight:Digest:"The Orchestra is a flat-out astounding new...
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Too Loud & It All Sounds The Same? Why Researchers Were Wrong On Pop
After scientists earlier this year claimed to have proved that music has been sliding a path of diminishing returns and actually does all sound the same, musicologist Stephen Graham points out why pop...
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Literary History, Seen Through Big Data’s Lens
Big Data is pushing into the humanities, as evidenced by new, illuminating computer analyses of literary history.Olivier Lartillot's insight:My digest:"Big Data technology is steadily pushing beyond...
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Music Information Retrieval, a tutorial
George Tzanetakis provides give an overview of techniques, applications and capabilities of music information retrieval systems.Olivier Lartillot's insight:Great tutorial by George Tzanetakis about...
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI |...
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm. The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears could...
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Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math to Deal...
Olivier Lartillot's insight:[ Note from curator: Wired already wrote an article about Carlsson and his compressed sensing method 4 years ago.There are interesting critical comments about this article...
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Shazam-Like Dolphin System ID's Their Whistles: Scientific American Podcast
Olivier Lartillot's insight:I am glad to see such popularization of research related to “melodic” pattern identification that generalizes beyond the music context and beyond the human species, and also...
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