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Dr Simon Dixon
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Kurt Jacobson (RA from August 2010) |
Linked Music Metadata |
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Mathieu Barthet (RA from September 2010) |
Musicology for the Masses |
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Amélie Anglade (PhD student) |
Logic-based Modelling of Musical Harmony for Automatic Characterisation, Classification and Recommendation |
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Robert Macrae (PhD student) |
Linking Music-Related Information and Audio Data |
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Lesley Mearns (PhD student) |
Voice Leading as a Prime Motivator in Music: The Application of Music Theory to Generate Musical Prior Knowledge |
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Emmanouil Benetos (PhD student) |
Automatic Transcription of Polyphonic Music |
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Magdalena Chudy (PhD student) |
Music Performer Recognition Using Timbre Features |
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Matthias Mauch (PhD student, completed March 2010) |
Automatic Chord Transcription from Audio using Computational Models of Musical Context |
Projects
- Principal investigator on RCUK Digital Economy project EP/I001832/1 Musicology for the Masses, £250k, Sep 2010 - Feb 2012
- Principal investigator on JISC-funded Linked Music Metadata project, £95k, Aug 2010 - July 2011
- Co-investigator for EPSRC project EP/H043101/1 Sustainable Software for Digital Music and Audio Research, 2010-2014
- Co-investigator on WWTF-funded project AudioMiner: Mathematical Signal Analysis and Modeling for Manipulation of Sound Objects, 2010-2012
- Co-investigator on EPSRC-funded OMRAS-2 Project EP/E017614/1 Online Music Recognition And Searching: A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology, 2007-2010
- Co-investigator on Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) project Interfaces to Music, 2004-2007
- Researcher on EU 6th FP STREP Project Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents (SIMAC), 2004-2006
- Researcher on Gerhard Widmer's START Research Prize project Computer-Based Music Research: Artificial Intelligence Models of Musical Expression, 1999-2005
- Researcher on EU 5th FP RTN Project: Music Orchestration Systems in Algorithmic Research and Technology (MOSART), 2000-2003
Press
Articles about these projects have appeared in:- New York Times, NYT Arts and Leisure, June 5, 2005
- Die Presse, 1 June 2004 (in German)
- FORMAT Science, 19 March 2004 (in German)
- Wired Magazine, Sept 2001, pp 100-112
- Der Spiegel, Nr.23/3.6.02, pp174-176 (in German)
Downloads
Beat tracking software BeatRoot (requires: Java, any platform)
Audio alignment software MATCH (requires: Java, any platform)
Slides from the ISMIR 2006 Tutorial on Computational Rhythm Description, presented by Fabien Gouyon and Simon Dixon.
Biography
I completed my BSc(Hons) (1986-1989) and PhD (1990-1994) degrees in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, and also learnt Classical Guitar at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, obtaining the AMusA (1987) and LMusA (1988). I was a lecturer in Computer Science at Flinders University of South Australia from 1994 until mid 1999, and a research scientist in the Intelligent Music Processing Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 1999 to 2006. In December 2006 I joined QMUL's Centre for Digital Music as a lecturer. I was Programme Co-chair for the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (2007).