We have been successful, together with a great consortium consisting of Queen Mary UoL, CNRS Paris, University of Music Weimar, University of Illinois, Columbia University, in securing funding from the Digging Into Data Challenge for our new project Dig That Lick: Analysing Large-Scale Data For Melodic Patterns In Jazz Performances.
Read more →Tillman Weyde gave a talk entitled Towards Digital Musicology with Jazz Data and Metadata at Columbia University (New York) at the conference The Future of Jazz Discography.
Read more →Our paper Generating Time: Rhythmic Perception, Prediction and Production with Recurrent Neural Networks (by Andy Elmsley, Tillman Weyde and Newton Armstrong) has been published in the Journal of Creative Music Systems.
Read more →Our article The Digital Music Lab: A Big Data Infrastructure for Digital Musicology has appeared in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage’s Special Issue on Digital Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage See also here for the authors’ accepted version.
Read more →ASyMMuS Workshop on Audio-Symbolic Music Similarity Modelling 8 July 2015, 10:00 – 15:30 Foyle Suite, Centre for Conservation British Library The AHRC funded project on An Integrated Audio-Symbolic Model of Music Similarity (ASyMMuS) aims to integrate aspects of audio and symbolic representations, such as scores or MIDI data, in a joint model. By building...
Read more →City University is prominently featured in the upcoming British Library event “Digital Conversations” – with Tillman Weyde representing the Music Informatics Group and the Stephen Cottrell from the Music Department. Tillman will present the Digital Music Lab project which enables music research on big datasets. Further speakers include Sandra Tuppen (A Big Data History...
Read more →The Music Informatics group, as part of its AHRC-funded DML project, is co-organising the workshop: Digital Music Lab Final Workshop on Analysing Big Music Data 13 March 2015, 10:00 – 16:30 Foyle Suite, Centre for Conservation British Library The final workshop of the DML project will take place at the British Library on 13...
Read more →The Music Informatics Research Group is pleased to announce the new research project entitled: Automatic segmentation of audio recordings to speech and music. The 2-month, £5.9k mini-project is funded through the City University London Research Pump-Priming Fund; its aim is to improve state-of-the-art automatic speech-music segmentation technology and its applicability to the British Library’s World...
Read more →City’s Department of Computer Science has played a prominent role in the 2014 Royal Institution (RI) Christmas Lectures, which were presented by Professor Danielle George, with the theme, ‘Sparks Will Fly’. The RI Christmas Lecture Series, regarded as an annual highlight for a science event addressed to young people, is a series of talks on...
Read more →The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the annual Digital Music Research Network Workshop 2014 (DMRN+9), taking place on Tuesday 16th December 2014 at Queen Mary University of London. The following MIRG work will be presented at the workshop: “The ASyMMuS project: An integrated audio-symbolic model of music similarity”, Emmanouil...
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