For all of those new to this list, a quick description of the groups general interests:

Open discussions based on one or two papers, or one talk per session will be held on a monthly basis. For upcoming dates, please let us know when you are available by updating the doodle session at http://doodle.com/iinzng5xn2a79tif.

If you’re from outside City University please contact Daniel Wolff or Tillman Weyde to get an invitation.

The groups general topics include but are not limited to

• music information retrieval
• music synthesis and compositional tools
• interfaces for music access and generation as well as their
• application in artistic contexts or media industry
• general content classification schemes and tagging methods
• music in social networks and collaborative annotation
• music cognition

We are collecting suggestions for individual session topics, including

• interesting papers and publications
• presentations related to own current or past research,
• further topics of general interest

Previously discussed topics include:

• The compmusic project: http://compmusic.upf.edu/
  Automatic Musical Structure Recognition from audio recordings: http://ismir2010.ismir.net/proceedings/ismir2010-107.pdf
• “Creating Music by Listening”: > https://mirg.city.ac.uk/_common/MIRG_Reader_Jun2011_Jehan05.pdf
• A Method for Obtaining Semantic Facets of Music Tags. Mohamed Sordo, > Fabien Gouyon and Luís Sarmento, WOMRAD 2010 http://womrad.org/2010/papers/18.pdf