Seminars

The Centre for Digital Music regularly organizes seminars and talks. Visitors are always welcome.

Time and Place

The exact time and place for each seminar is advertised in announcement emails and via the news section on this website.
Usually, seminars take place on Wednesdays, 4pm, in room GC 2.22 in the Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
Information on how to access the school can be found here.
Video recordings of seminars are regularly made available on this website on our C4DM YouTube Channel.

Seminar Announcement List and Contact

External visitors are welcome to join our seminar announcement list.
For all enquiries, please contact the C4DM seminar organisers.

Seminars (Past and Upcoming)

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2023-05-11: Anja Volk - Understanding and employing patterns in music
2022-10-11: Vipul Arora - Model Adaptation for Learning from Small Data
2022-07-20: Gabriel Vigliensoni - Clastic Music From rhythmic latent spaces to a web based music release
2022-05-30: Professor Thor Magnusson - Music Technologies that learn. But what are they learning
2022-04-20: Prof. Ian McLoughlin - The strange world of speech and audio AI
2022-03-16: Axel Marmoret - Unsupervised Barwise Music Compression for Pattern Uncovering and Structural Segmentation
2021-11-10: Mirco Ravanelli - The SpeechBrain Project (Video Available)
2021-11-03: Woosung Choi - Audio Manipulation on User-Specified Sources with Textual Queries (Video Available)
2021-11-03: Qiuqiang Kong - High-resolution Piano Transcription System and GiantMIDI-Piano Dataset
2021-10-27: Vincent Lostanlen - We don't need no supervision. New perspectives in self-supervised learning for music signal processing
2021-04-21: Johanna Devaney - Automatically Extracting Performance Data from Musical Audio (Video Available)
2021-02-17: Stefan Bilbao - Physics-based Sound Synthesis, Virtual Acoustics and Audio Effects (Video Available)
2021-02-05: Naoya Takahashi - Audio source separation: Industry No.1 technology and its applications
2020-11-25: Tho Nguyen seminar
2020-10-26: Chieh Chi Kao seminar
2020-10-06: Hauke Egermann - Predicting listener experience in functional music settings (Video Available)
2020-03-20: Nuria Bonet Seminar
2020-03-11: Kyriaki Kalimeri Seminar
2019-11-27: Kaustuv Ganguli Seminar
2019-11-27: CHRISTINE CUSKLEY SEMINAR
2019-10-28: Yin-Jyun Luo and Kin Wai Cheuk Seminar
2019-09-23: Oliver Hodl Seminar
2019-08-07: Davide Rocchesso Seminar
2019-06-18: Patrick E Savage Seminar
2019-05-13: Kazuyoshi Yoshii Seminar
2019-03-06: Kostantinos Drossos Seminar
2018-12-04: Will Wilkinson Seminar Probabilistic models for audio signals
2018-12-04: Andre Anikin Seminar
2018-11-21: Mathieu Lagrange Seminar
2018-09-17: VincentLostanlenSeminar
2018-05-23: YE WANG SEMINAR
2018-01-18: Federico Fontana - The musical keyboard is changing: what will we need to reconstruct sense of touch?
2017-11-22: Athanasios Lykartsis - Using MIR methods for speech rhythm analysis: Results, challenges and perspectives
2017-09-27: Sebastian Ewert - From Structured Dropout to Proximal Methods - Guiding the Learning Process in Meaningful Ways (Video Available)
2017-09-13: Amandine Pras - Involving music performers in the design of innovative audio technology
2017-09-13: Kai Siedenburg - Conceptual and empirical perspectives on the wastebasket of timbre (Video Available)
2017-07-17: Ching Wei Chen and Andreas Jansson
2017-07-04: Kazuyoshi Yoshii - Recent Developments in Statistical Modelling Techniques for Music Signal Processing
2017-06-28: Ken Deguernel - Learning of Musical Structures in the Context of Improvisation
2017-06-16: Hanna Pamula - Acoustic monitoring of birds migrating at night
2017-06-14: Luca Turchet - Smart Instruments and the Internet of Musical Things
2017-05-31: Sarah Anne Sauve - Latest data on musical emotion and relative salience in polyphonic music projects
2017-05-24: Mauricio Alvarez - Sequential latent force models for segmenting motor primitives
2017-05-17: Katerina Kosta - Computational Modelling and Quantitative Analysis of Dynamics in Performed Music
2017-05-10: Eita Nakamura - Statistical Modelling Techniques for Symbolic Music Processing
2017-03-20: Brecht De Man - Towards a better understanding of mix engineering
2017-03-06: Daniel Overholt - Augmented Expressivity for Acoustic Instruments (Video Available)
2017-02-22: ICASSP Pre-Presentations
2016-11-30: Colin Raffel - The Lakh MIDI Dataset - How It Was Made and How to Use It (Video Available)
2016-11-25: Tian Cheng and Siddharth Sigtia (Video Available)
2016-11-08: Phil Burk and Don Turner - Audio at Google
2016-10-19: DL Seminar - Rebecca Fiebrink - Creative uses of machine learning in music performance
2016-10-17: Anna Kruspe - Applying Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Technologies to Singing (Video Available)
2016-10-10: Prem Seetharaman - Music structural segmentation and source separation
2016-07-28: Norbert Schnell - Playing (with) Mobile Devices and Web Technolgies Together
2016-07-12: Brecht De Man - Listening Test Interface Design (Video Available)
2016-06-09: Oyvind Brandtsegg - Cross adaptive processing as musical intervention (Video Available)
2016-06-01: Johan Pauwels - Exploiting Prior Knowledge in the Automatic Estimation of Keys and Chords from Audio
2016-05-18: Adrien Mamou-Mani - SmartInstruments: And the physics becomes programmable
2016-05-11: Yvonne Blokland - Towards a Brain-Computer Interface for awareness detection
2016-02-23: Shlomo Dubnov - Information theoretic creativity
2016-02-18: Ichiro Fujinaga - The Research Program of the Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Laboratory at McGill University
2016-02-10: Pablo Alejandro Alvarado Duran - Physically-Musically Inspired Probabilistic Models for Audio Content Analysis (Video Available)
2016-02-09: AudioCommons Seminar
2016-01-27: Gawain Hewitt - Breaking barriers to music making through accessible design (Video Available)
2016-01-13: Derry FitzGerald - Projet - Spatial Audio Separation Using Projections

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