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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Apr 11

can't get enough of guitar-MIR 🎸

arXiv Sound @arxiv-sound.bsky.social · Apr 11

A new dataset (EGDB-PG) and a Tone-informed Transformer (TIT) model were developed for electric guitar transcription; TIT, trained on EGDB-PG, outperformed baselines across amplifier types due to dataset diversity and tone embedding; ablation studies assessed augmentation and embedding impact.

Towards Generalizability to Tone and Content Variations in the Transcription of Amplifier Rendered Electric Guitar Audio

Yu-Hua Chen, Yuan-Chiao Cheng, Yen-Tung Yeh, Jui-Te Wu, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Yi-Hsuan Yang

arxiv.org

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Apr 3

Really creative use of AI for video by #meatdept on this banger (non AI) release by #igorrr 🤘

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbkk...

Igorrr - ADHD (Official Video)

YouTube video by Metal Blade Records

www.youtube.com

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 28

Let us hear your AI-assisted bangers 🤘

AI Song Contest @aisongcontest.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎶✨ AI Song Contest 2025 is HERE! ✨🎶
Are you ready to push the boundaries of music and AI?

🌍 Over 70 teams from 20+ countries have already redefined the future of music. Will YOU be next?

🔗 Learn more & sign up at www.aisongcontest.com
#AISongContest #AIinMusic #MusicInnovation #AISongContest2025

AI Song Contest

The AI Song Contest is an international competition exploring how humans can make music in collaboration with artificial intelligence

www.aisongcontest.com

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 25

So many great works 🤘

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 22

Thanks! I was ambivalent because I confess I didn't love the new stuff - I think it's great for the band that Manuel Gagneux let everyone write on the new album, very democratic, but 😬

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 22

How was it? Sad to miss it, specially since they seem to have played so much of the old stuff

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 22

so sorry for the delay 🙇‍♀️ you actually nailed it 100%

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

guess-the-guitar-player-or-the-band

docs.google.com

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 21

oooops, good shout - let me get on that 🎸

Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hopefully yes 🤞you?

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Mar 21

Good luck to all the titans submitting to #ISMIR2025 🤘excited to see what this year's edition will bring 🎸

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · Mar 11

4’33, One Minute, and the copyright grab - my Everyday Philosophy column @theneweuropean.bsky.social www.theneweuropean.co.uk/nigel-warbur...

Everyday Philosophy: John Cage and the sound of silence

A collective called the 1000 Artists have followed in the composer’s footsteps by releasing a silent protest album

www.theneweuropean.co.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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Oriol (Uri) Nieto @urinieto.bsky.social · Mar 4

I love how DiffRhythm keeps changing time signatures à la Dream Theater (ie, seemingly random). The vocals are in a quite deep uncanny valley, but the music sounds super good. And the audio prompting works really well! And all open source! Great job, titans <3 huggingface.co/spaces/ASLP-...

DiffRhythm - a Hugging Face Space by ASLP-lab

Blazingly Fast and Embarrassingly Simple Song Generation

huggingface.co

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 22

They're out 🤘

Blair Kaneshiro @blairkaneshiro.bsky.social · Feb 20

ISMIR 2024 Conference Proceedings are now online! ismir.net/conferences/...

Thank you to all of the authors, reviewers, meta-reviewers, and conference organizers for their contributions to a vibrant and innovative research community!

#ISMIR2024 #MIR #Music #Research

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 13

Dataset papers are usually easy to follow, and they are at the very beginning of every AI endeavour!

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · Feb 12

Video of @stefanlattner.bsky.social 's talk at DMRN+19 is finally online:
"Models of Musical Signals: Representation, Learning & Generation" @c4dm.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixHf...

Models of Musical Signals: Representation, Learning & Generation. Stefan Lattner (Sony SCL). DMRN+19

YouTube video by C4DM - Centre for Digital Music

www.youtube.com

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 11

a brilliant idea haha

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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · Feb 10

Great interview with @jascha.sohldickstein.com about diffusion models! This is the first in a series: similar interviews with Yang Song and yours truly will follow soon.

(One of these is not like the others -- both of them basically invented the field, and I occasionally write a blog post 🥲)

History of Diffusion - Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

YouTube video by Bain Capital Ventures

www.youtube.com

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kaseypocius.bsky.social @kaseypocius.bsky.social · Feb 7

exitpoints.bandcamp.com/album/you-ar...

Grab some albums on bandcamp today, support independent artists and Musicares!

You Are The Right Length, by Exit Points

10 track album

exitpoints.bandcamp.com

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 7

Is it that good? 👀 I'm curious to try it out!

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 7

Very excited to share our latest work, the GigaMIDI dataset with > 1.4M files, published at #TISMIR 🤘 It was a huge pleasure to collaborate with such a team of titans

transactions.ismir.net/articles/10....

The GigaMIDI Dataset with Features for Expressive Music Performance Detection | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

The Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval publishes novel scientific research in the field of music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary research area concerned with processing, analysing, organising and accessing music information. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, musicology, cognitive science, library & information science and electrical engineering.TISMIR was established to complement the widely cited ISMIR conference proceedings and provide a vehicle for the dissemination of the highest quality and most substantial scientific research in MIR. TISMIR retains the Open Access model of the ISMIR Conference proceedings, providing rapid access, free of charge, to all journal content. In order to encourage reproducibility of the published research papers, we provide facilities for archiving the software and data used in the research. To avoid excessive cost to the authors or their institutions, TISMIR is published in electronic-only format.

transactions.ismir.net

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C4DM at QMUL @c4dm.bsky.social · Feb 5

From the 25th February to 4th March 2025, two C4DM researchers will participate at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025). More info at:
www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

The following works were authored/coauthored by C4DM PhD students and academic staff:

www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 4

🤣

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Pedro Sarmento @umpedronosapato.bsky.social · Feb 3

this is pricelessly sad and great at the same time 🤘 Courtney LaPlante is such a titan

Metal Injection @metalinjection.bsky.social · Feb 3

Interviewer Mistakes SPIRITBOX's COURTNEY LAPLANTE For POPPY On The GRAMMYs Red Carpet, Does An Entirely Wrong Interview metalinjection.net/news/intervi...

Interviewer Mistakes SPIRITBOX's COURTNEY LAPLANTE For POPPY On The GRAMMYs Red Carpet, Does An Entirely Wrong Interview

This is hilarious.

metalinjection.net

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