Athenaeum Talk Series – Music Information Research

Speaker: Dr Ajay Srinivasamurthy

Topic: Music Information Research: Topics, Trends, Tools, Careers.

Key Points

Some key topics covered as a part of this talk are as follows:

• Music Technology: Introduction,Opportunities and Challenges.

• Basic Music Concepts: Objects such as Audio, Scores, Lyrics etc and Elements such as Pitch, Duration etc. Audio recordings were played to showcase these concepts.

• Discussed a few MIR problems involving Data, Representations, Descriptors and Tasks. 

• Applications involving melody such as predominant melody extraction and melody suppression. Also discussed onset and tempo features.

• Discussed tools, communities, datasets and learning resources for MIR.

• Careers and upcoming worldwide/nationwide events/conferences in the field of MIR.