News & Events

* 18 Dec 2012: C4DM hosts DMRN+7 One-day Workshop * 5th Nov 2012: C4DM hosts a Workshop on Sparsity, Compressed Sensing and Applications - slides/video now online * New partnership with London Chamber Orchestra: Inspired by Digital * New Research Areas * Fellowship opportunities * 21nd Dec 2010: C4DM hosts DMRN+5 One-day Workshop * World Cup Vuvuzela - free devuvuzelator * Read about the future of digital audio in this Music Research article * 11th June 08: C4DM presents a Digi-Vu experience at the Shunt in central London. * Centre for Digital Music awarded £1m EPSRC Platform Grant * Centre for Digital Music and Goldsmiths awarded £2.5m EPSRC 'Large Grant' for "OMRAS2: Online Music Recognition and Searching 2.0"

New courses:

- BEng Audio Systems Engineering - MEng Digital Audio and Music System Engineering See also: - MSc in Digital Music Processing - MSc in Digital Signal Processing)

See also:

- Seminars - ISMIR 2005 Review   (Computer Music Jnl) - OMRAS2 Wiki

C4DM seminar videos

Centre for Digital Music

News: we are hosting an IEEE AASP Challenge on
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events

The Centre for Digital Music is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of Music & Audio Technology. Since its founding members joined Queen Mary in 2001, the Centre has grown to become arguably the UK’s leading Digital Music research group . With its broad range of skills and a strong focus on making innovation usable, the Centre for Digital Music is ideally placed to work with industry leaders in forging new business models for the music industry

Our research into technologies for audio and music has a long and successful history, dating back to 1978  with pioneering work on Digital Power Amplification. Today, our work on the Music Ontology and in using the Semantic Web for Music is once again blazing the trail.

Our research covers the field of Music & Audio Technology from record/replay equipment in the home or studio, to the simulation and synthesis of instruments and voices, acoustic spaces, music understanding, delivery and retrieval. We have developed systems for automatic playlisting from personal collections (SoundBite), for looking inside the audio (Sonic Visualiser) for automatically synchronising to a drummer (B-Keeper), for hardening/softening transients, and many others. We also regularly release some of our algorithms under Open Source licences, while maintaining a healthy portfolio of patents.

We also produce interactive art installations under the guise of C4DM Presents.

Keywords: Music Information Retreival, Music Informatics, Semantic Audio, Semantic Web for Music, Digital Signal Processing for Music and Audio, Transient Analysis and Onsets,Independent Component Analysis, Blind Source Separation, Sparse Representations, Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Processing.

For more details see:

• Audio Engineering
• Interactional Sound & Music
• Machine Listening
• Music Informatics
• Music Cognition
• See Also: New Research Areas

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