AIM CDT seminars and talks
The AIM CDT is organising regular seminars, workshops and talks. These are generally aimed at supporting the research development of CDT AIM students, although some talks are open to a wider audience. Below is the list of events organised so far.
| List of AIM CDT events by year |
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| Year 2024 |
| Year 2023 |
| Year 2022 |
| Year 2021 |
| Year 2020 |
| Year 2019 |
Year 2024
Day: 26th September 2024
- Talk: Audio signal processing and generative AI for audio: visit from 3 Postdoctoral researcher at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/labs
- Title:
- Learning Source Disentanglement in Neural Audio Codec (Xiaoyu Bie)
- WaveTransfer: A Flexible End-to-end Multi-instrument Timbre Transfer with Diffusion (Teysir Baoueb)
- Episodic fine-tuning prototypical networks for optimization-based few-shot learning: Application to audio classification (Xuanyu Zhuang)
Day: 16th September 2024
- Talk: : Iran Roman – QMUL Lecturer in Sound and Music computing. Dr Iran Roman: Centre for Multimodal AI (qmul.ac.uk)
- Title: Bridging Data Models and Theory: from Computational Musicology to Multimodal AI and Neural Signal Processing
Day: 27th August 2024
- Talk: Chin-Yun Yu, Jordie Shier and Shuoyang Zheng – AIM CDT students
- Title: NIME and DAFx preparation presentations
- Differentiable All-pole Filters for Time-varying Audio Systems (Chin-Yun Yu)
- Real-time Timbre Remapping with Differentiable DSP (Jordie Shier)
- Building sketch-to-sound mapping with unsupervised feature extraction and interactive machine learning (Shuoyang Zheng)
Day: 17th June 2024
- Talk: Cameron Thomas, Daven Sanassy & Liam Cutler. https://vochlea.com
- Title: From Basement Experiments to Production: Vochlea’s Journey
Day: 10th June 2024
- Talk: Yunus Kutlu and Huan Wang of QM Innovation
- Title: Translational grant writing workshop
Day: 13th May
- Talk: Lewis Wolstanholme and Chris Winnard – AIM CDT students
- Title: Tales from the IRCAM Forum (Lewis Wolstanholme), An Introduction to EEG and Research in Progress (Chris Winnard)
Day: 9th May 2024
- Talk: Aoife Monks; QMUL Centre for arts, culture and creative Collaboration. Aoife Monks – English and Drama (qmul.ac.uk)
- Title: Social transformation (of research), how technology could be used for social good
Day: 15th April 2024
- Talk: Chris Cannam, Principal Research Software Developer at C4DM/QMUL
- Title: The myths and truths of software development
14th March 2024
- Talk: Corey Ford, QMUL
- Title: Reflection Across AI Music Composition
7th March 2024
- Talk: Elona Shatri and Susanne Binder, theAI, Ethics and Society Group at QMUL.
- Title: AI, Ethics, and Society Forum: Navigating the Terminology of AI Ethics Across Disciplines
29th February 2024
- Talk: Charalampos Saitis, QMUL
- Title: Metaphors we listen with: Semantic-Conceptual Spaces of Timbre
23rd February 2024
- Workshop: JUCE Programming Tutorial
- By Joshua Hodge (The Audio Programmer) ahead of the Timbre Tools Hackathon.
22nd February 2024
- Talk: Anna Xambo, QMUL
- Title: Sound and Music Computing Goes Wild: From Communities to Ecosystems
And,
- Talk: Aidan Hogg, QMUL
- Title: Exploring the impact of transfer learning on GAN-based HRTF upsampling
8th February 2024
- Talk: IRIS Audio Technologies and the challenges of training an AI (commercialising and used at scale)
- Anatole Chivot – IRIS Audio Technologies
25th January 2024
- Talk: On Song Athletics
- Will Evans owner of Song Athletics
YEAR 2023
19th December 2023
DMRN+18: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2023
Queen Mary University of London
- Keynote speakers: Stefan Bilbao (University of Edinburg)
- Tittle: Physics-based Audio: Sound Synthesis and Virtual Acoustics.
- Link to video at C4DM YouTube channel
23 March 2023
- Talk: Jazz improvisation and artificial intelligence
- Dimitrios Vassilakis.
16 March 2023
- Seminar: The Future of AI-Generated Art: Navigating Legal and Ethical Implications for a Posthuman World (on AI Ethics & Music)
- Martin Clancy.
16 February 2023
- Seminar: “Audio algorithms in the industry – business and tech insights”
- Thomas Walther – Tape.it.
8 February 2023
- Workshop: “Body-centred perspectives on human-human and human-machine interaction”
- Ana Tajadura-Jimenez – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
23 January 2023
- Talk: QAFx — Representing and processing sound with quanta.
- Davide Rocchesso –Universita degli Studi di Palermo
YEAR 2022
20th December 2022
DMRN+17: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2022
Queen Mary University of London
- Keynote speakers: Sander Dieleman.
- Tittle: On generative modelling and iterative refinement.
12-Dec 2022
- Talk: Operationalizing Sound and Music with Foundational AI Models
- Cumhur Erkut – Aalborg University
28-Nov 2022
- Talk : “Dimensions of immersive audio experience” (There is a binaural audio demo; on the recording, the binaural audio demo part on the video sounds mono).
- Hyunkook Lee – University of Huddersfield
30 May 2022
- Talk: Music Technologies that learn. But what are they learning?
- Thor Magnusson, University of Sussex and Iceland University of the Arts
- https://thormagnusson.github.io/
20 April 2022
- Talk: Human Learning x Machine Learning.
- Atau Tanaka, Goldsmith University of London
30 March 2022
- Seminar: 3D Audio for Live Sound
- Etienne Corteel and Frederic Roskam, L-Acoustic
YEAR 2021
DMRN+16: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2021
Queen Mary University of London
Keynote speakers:
- Prof Sophie Scott– (UCL)
- Title: “Sound on the brain – insights from functional neuroimaging and neuroanatomy”
- Link to video at C4DM YouTube channel
- Prof Gus Xia– (NYU Shanghai)
- Title: “Learning interpretable music representations: from human stupidity to artificial intelligence”
- Link to video at C4DM YouTube channel
18th-19th December 2021
- NASH: the Neural Audio Synthesis Hackathon
- A two-day hackathon around the theme of neural audio synthesis, a growing field which focuses on producing audio with neural networks. (See more…)
12th December 2021
- NASH Workshop
- Speakers:
- Hugo Flores García(NWU)
- CJ Carr(Dadabots)
- Ilaria Manco(QMUL)
- Moisés Horta (Independent artist: Hexorcismos)
- Antoine Caillon(IRCAM)
28 June 2021
- Talk: AI Black Metal: Eliminating Humans from Music (available on YouTube)
- CJ Carr, Dadabots
22 March 2021
- Talk: “The quadruple hierarchy” (available on YouTube)
- Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton
YEAR 2020
15 December 2020
DMRN+15: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2020
Queen Mary University of London
Keynote speakers:
- Philippe Esling(IRCAM)
- Title: Creativity at the era of artificial intelligence
- Dorien Herremans(Singapore University of Technology and Design)
- Title: Controllable music generation: from MorpheuS to deep networks
- Mariana Lopez (University of York)
- Title: Accessibility through sound design and spatialisation: towards more creative and inclusive practices in film and television
29 July 2020
- Seminar: “From Research to Product: A development workflow for Audio Algorithms / Introduction to VST3”
- Yvan Grabit, Jean-Baptiste Rolland by Steinberg
21 July 2020
- Seminar “Working in the (Music) Industry: A Personal Experience”
- Sertan Şentürk by Kobalt
20 July 2020
- Seminar: “Towards an Integral Model of Ubiquitous Music”
- Ove Holmqvist by Holonic systems
13 July 2020
- Workshop: “Reproducible Machine Learning Pipelines”
- Thomas Arvanitidis, Spyros Stasis by Music Tribe
22 June 2020
- Workshop: “Perceptual Engineering as a Means to Interpret and Manipulate Perception”
- Sølvi Ystad, Mitsuko Aramaki, Richard Kronland-Martinet by Laboratory PRISM, AMU-CNRS
18 May 2020
- Talk: “Tapes and Recommendations Using AI”
- Carla Willis-Brown by Tapes UK
YEAR 2019
17 December 2019
DMRN+14: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2019
Queen Mary University of London
Keynote speaker:
- Cynthia Liem (Delft University of Technology)
- Title: Data and human interpretation: music and beyond