Today, prof. Wang Ye, general chair of this year's ISMIR, was nice enough to invite me to teach a guest lecture in his Sound and Music Computing class at NUS. The class was introduced by a lecture of Prof. Lonce Wyse, who talked about sound modelling with machine learning. In my talk, we focused on music modelling from a generative perspective. For those interested, you can download my slides here.

In order to bring the music research community in Singapore together, the Music Cognition group at IHPC, A*STAR under the lead of Dr. Kat Agres, organized the first Singaporean Music Research Symposium on Feb. 2nd. With over 70 participants, the day was a true success.

I'm please to announce the latest article I wrote together with Prof. Elaine Chew on MorpheuS, published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The paper explains the inner workings of MorpheuS, a music generation system that is able to generate pieces with a fixed pattern structure and given tension.

Herremans D., Chew E.. 2017. MorpheuS: generating structured music with constrained patterns and tension. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. PP (In Press)(99)

A new journal article was published that I wrote together with Prof. Ching-Hua Chuan and Prof. Elaine Chew. The article is a survey on current music generation systems from a functional point of view, thus creating a nice overview of current challenges and opportunities in the field. The articles covers systems ranging from game music, to real-time improvisation systems and emotional movie music generation systems.

Update: while this particular grant has expired, there are some other opportunities available in my lab.

I am looking for a strong PhD candidate in music and machine learning at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). SUTD is a relatively new university, founded in collaboration with MIT, that has a strong interdisciplinary focus on design. The available PhD position is at the department of Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD).

I am pleased to announce that I have been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Only 8 percent of IEEE members have attained the level of senior member. Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession. They are recognised for their technical and professional excellence, achievements, publications and course development or technical direction in IEEE-designated fields. I am particularly active in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Today I gave a Lunch & Learn Seminar at Jukedeck in London. Jukedeck is a London-based tech startup that is using artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way people and companies make and consume music. In my talk I talked about the MorpheuS system and some deep learning models for modeling music that I have recently developed in collaboration with Prof. C.H Chuan.

This week I am giving a seminar at Singapore University of Technology and Design about some of my latest research, entitled: 'Machine Learning and Optimization for Cutting Edge Applications in Digital Music'.
Date:
27 April 2017 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue:
SUTD Think Tank 20 (Building 2, Level 3)
8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372
Category: Seminar Series ISTD

International Workshop on Deep Learning for Music
In conjunction with the 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN 2017))

14-19 May (1 day), Anchorage
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There has been tremendous interest in deep learning across many fields of study. Recently, these techniques have gained popularity in the field of music. Projects such as Magenta (Google's Brain Team's music generation project), Jukedeck and others testify to their potential.