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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · 7h

🎶 [C4DM Seminar] Advancing Music Experience Through Music Information Research
🕒 3–4 PM, 5th November
📍 TBC
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Masataka Goto, Senior Principal Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

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synth.is @synth.is · Sep 8

It was a pleasure to present the synth.is project and demo the phylogeny.synth.is tool at the Communication Acoustics Lab in @c4dm.bsky.social during this summer’s Creative Audio Synthesis and Interfaces Workshop: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Photo courtesy of Vincenzo Madaghiele.

Björn Þór demoing http://phylogeny.synth.is/

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Jo-th the Raven 🎃 👻 🦇 🕷️ 🕸️ @jobrodie.bsky.social · 8d

I'm working on a lovely side-project with @cs4fn.bsky.social & @c4dm.bsky.social at @qmuleecs.bsky.social to help create some classroom resources (for primary and secondary schools) based on the use of AI in analysing music (in particular underrepresented musical tradition).

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Prepared Minds Lab @preparedmindslab.bsky.social · 2d

our inventor @antorrisi.bsky.social with poster on #VocalEcho: Closed-loop system for vocal interactions #BioDCASE at 12:21 CET (11.21 UK time) 🐥 🔀 🤖🎈
Streaming dcase.community/workshop2025...
@c4dm.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · 28d

OPEN CALL :DMRN+20 is hosted at KCL in collaboration with – but outside of – C4DM for the first time in many years, and takes the theme “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”.

Tuesday 16th December 2025
🕚 10:00–17:00hrs
📍 King’s College London
More info: www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/

DMRN+20 - Digital Music Research Network

www.qmul.ac.uk

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AES AIMLA is proud to present Retreading the OSCar Synth with Ben Supper.
@aesaimla25.bsky.social
Sunday 7th of September in-person or online :)
Tickets free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1574203247...

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AES AIMLA is coming!
And we couldn't be happier to host this conference at QMUL.
Check the social events.
Register before the deadline.
aes2.org/events-calen...

2025 AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio - AES

Submissions Event Details For sponsorship opportunities, please click here. The Audio Engineering Society invites audio researchers and practitioners, from academia and industry to participate in the ...

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚢 Join us for an exclusive Thames River cruise!
As part of
@aesaimla25.bsky.social
, we're hosting a private evening event during the 2025 AES International Conference on AI & Machine Learning for Audio.
More information: aes2.org/event-extra/...

AES 2022 International AVAR Conference

The AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference three-day conference program will focus around the dissemination of top-level research in the field of spatial audio for v...

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Ivan MH @meresmanhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 25

Grateful to collaborators Mark Sandler and @emmanouilb.bsky.social, and to all the brilliant people at @c4dm.bsky.social for making these past months fun and so inspiring! Special thanks go to Adi (Aditya Bhattacharjee)🔥, with whom it's been (and continues to be) an absolute pleasure to work with🌟

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 26

🎶 C4DM is heading to #NIME2025!
Catch our researchers in Canberra, 24–27 June, presenting at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, hosted by ANU.
📝 Paper list below 👇 #MusicTech #NIME #C4DM

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 23

🎉 C4DM is proud to be organising the next @aesaimla25.bsky.social!
📢 Registration is now open!
Join us at the AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio — a leading event at the intersection of AI, ML, and sound.
aes2.org/event-extra/...

2025 AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio - AES

Register Now, Early Bird Ends July 1st! Register Now Rates Early-Bird Registration – Ends July 1st: AES Members $350 AES Student Members $210 Non-Members $475 Advanced Registration: AES Members $550 A...

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 Submission Alert: LLM4MA Workshop (C4DM is co-organizing)
🗓 Deadline: 10 August 2025

LLM4MA: Large Language Models for Music & Audio
📍 Daejeon, Korea – Satellite event of ISMIR 2025

m-a-p.ai/LLM4Music/

LLM4MA: Large Language Models for Music & Audio - ISMIR 2025 Workshop

m-a-p.ai

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 23

🎓 C4DM Seminar Alert: Speech and Music AI
🗓 Tuesday, 24 June 2025
🕚 11:00 AM
📍 GC201, Graduate Centre, Mile End, QMUL

Join Prof. Ye Wang for a thought-provoking seminar on:
"Speech and Music AI: Connecting the Dots of AI and Human Potential"
www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 Last Day to Submit!
We’re proud that QMUL is hosting the next @aesaimla25.bsky.social! 🎉
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the "Querying by Vocal Imitation" challenge – submissions close today!
👉 qvim-aes.github.io

QVIM

qvim-aes.github.io

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚀 C4DM at IJCNN 2025
Researchers from the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) will present their work at IJCNN 2025.
Browse the publications here: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

#IJCNN2025 #NeuralNetworks #C4DM #MachineLearning #AI #MusicTech

As in previous years, the Centre for Digital Music will have a strong presence at the conference. The following papers authored/co-authored by C4DM members will be presented at IJCNN 2025:

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 6

📢 C4DM News: Introducing MIREX 2025: a key platform for evaluating cutting-edge music information retrieval algorithms.
Researchers are invited to submit and get standardized benchmarking + present at ISMIR 2025 🎶
www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-06...
#MIREX2025 #ISMIR2025 #C4DM

THis year, C4DM PhD students Yinghao Ma and Huan Zhang introduced new tasks to the platform, including Multimodal Music QA, Expressive Piano Performance Rendering, alongside traditional MIR challenges and emerging understanding/generation tasks. Specifically we are coordinating the following tasks:

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Jun 6

🎉 Congrats to Sungkyun Chang, Simon Dixon, and Emmanouil Benetos — their submission earned 2nd place at the 2025 Automatic Music Transcription Challenge! 🥈
ai4musicians.org/transcriptio...
#C4DM #MusicAI #AMTChallenge2025.

Leaderboard

ai4musicians.org

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · May 22

🎙️ C4DM Seminar Series Presents: Domestic Data Streamers: Fighting Indifference Towards Data.
When: Wednesday, 21st May 2025, 12:30pm
Where: In-person and online
More info: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-05...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us

C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · May 21

🎉 C4DM May Recap:
We were lucky to host Prof Ville Pulkki with a talk about: Superhearing, Laser Beams, and Windy Yelling: Spatial Audio Oddities Unleashed!
More information here:https://www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-05-08.C4DM-Seminar_Ville_Pulkki/

C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · May 20

🎉 C4DM May Recap:
We're thrilled to share that the paper “Yin-Yang: Developing Motifs With Long-Term Structure And Controllability” has won Best Paper at EvoMUSART 2025! 🏆

🧠 Keshav Bhandari, Geraint A. Wiggins and Simon Colton
More info at: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-05...

We are pleased to announce that the following paper authored by C4DM members received the best paper award!

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · May 19

🎙️ C4DM Seminar Series Presents

Alberto Bernardini – Differentiable Physical Models of Acoustic Systems for Audio Signal Processing
🗓️ Date and time : 29/05/2025 at 11 am
📍 Location: Online and in-person.
More Details: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-05...

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Apr 14

C4DM News: C4DM at ICLR 2025.
On 24-28 April, C4DM researchers will participate at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), taking place in Singapore🤗.
🔎 Find out more here: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

C4DM members will be presenting the following papers at the main track of ICLR 2025:

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are very thrilled to share our contributions to this year's ICASSP - 14 papers!
For a list of the articles, please refer to:

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

As in previous years, the Centre for Digital Music will have a strong presence at the conference, both in terms of numbers and overall impact. The below papers authored or co-authored by C4DM members will be presented at the main ICASSP 2025 track:

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Mar 22

An exciting novel contribution by our student @jinhua-liang.bsky.social, supervised by @emmanouilb.bsky.social

QMUL School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science @qmuleecs.bsky.social · Mar 20

Exciting research update! EECS PhD students have developed a novel approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to “hear” and “understand” sound - a breakthrough in multimodal generative #AI: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

EECS PhD researcher pioneers AI that can

www.qmul.ac.uk

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 10

I'm running a paid study on guitar timbre transfer - it should take approximately 30min 🎸
If you're interested, please reach out via DM!

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