Our mega project, jointly led with Manuel Anglada-Tort, is out now as preprint! We monitored millions of daily music discoveries across 1,423 cities and use this data to probe worldwide cultural shifts in real-time during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Humans worldwide talk and sing, but the exact forms of speech and song vary cross-culturally. New research finds that songs are slower and use higher, more stable pitches than speech, and these similarities exist globally.

Read more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/6XP

Many thanks to Yuto Ozaki and Pat Savage for leading this very cool work! I’m very happy to have made part of this. Links to paper, material (and a really cool cover) below! Thanks to the ManyVoices initiative!
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We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of MuRS: Music Recommender Systems workshop at
ACM RecSys
more news coming soon!

w/
Lorenzo Porcaro / [email protected]
Peter Knees
Christine Bauer

New column by me in Science:

'Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence'

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I am happy to announce that we'll be presenting our music analysis software and AI models Essentia MTG and related activities of MTG-UPF at the Sónar 2024 Project Area, June 13 to 15. @sonarfestival Sónar+D
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w/ Pablo Alonso Jiménez, Jorge Marcos

New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ Davey Alba and Leonardo gift link:
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Do you listen to music for sleep? Please spend 10 min of your Christmas holidays helping on this research by Lullabyte PhD project led by #SilviaGenovese with @kiravibe.bsky.social
Click here to participate survey.au.dk/LinkCollector?… 
#onlinesurvey #music #sleep

Audio and music at #AndaluzIA by Nadine Kroher

Today I moderated an open stand-up discussion on the main ethical implications in music-gen AI for the #GenerativeMusicAIWorkshop MTG-UPF Valerio Velardo. It was really interesting to listen to everybody's perspective on creativity, copyright, authorship & other topics!🎶⚠️

Really excited to launch our new research centre tomorrow! I'll be talking briefly about many types of inner experiences of music (earworms, music-evoked autobiographical memories, musical imagination) and what we are hoping to achieve with this new interdisciplinary hub!

'Alexa, play my playlist' 🎶

We worked with five people living with #dementia and two family carers to explore how Alexa enabled devices could be used to listen to personalised playlists.

Learn more about our findings: bit.ly/3FPY3hS?utm_so…

[1/6] A year ago, I started my PhD in transparency on music generation models. Many interesting things have happened since, but I never shared them in this platform, so I’d like to do a small recap ⏪

Check out our recent paper on..
text-to-audio, WITHOUT text-to-audio pairs.

🧻 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.09635
🕹️ Demo: salu133445.github.io/clipsonic/
📽️ Video: youtu.be/YuIJlCi4pNE

Our perspective paper on naturalistic paradigm in music neuroscience with Vinoo AR now published in Annals of NYAS. Music, Mind, Body and Brain #musicscience
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ny…

Very proud to find our TROMPA-MER dataset on the Plotly examples website today plotly.com/examples/#Imag…. Work made with #NGutierrez Lorenzo Porcaro / [email protected] Alastair Porter Estefanía Cano #PHerrera #AGkiokas Patricia Santos DaviniaHL #CKarreman and Emilia Gomez

The 2nd Workshop on Human-Centric Music Information Research ( #HCMIR23 ) will be held at the Politecnico di Milano (Politecnico di Milano) Nov 10th, as a satellite event of the ISMIR2023 (@ISMIRConf). Here are three good reasons for participating -->

Some self-reflection of the ACM RecSys, how diverse are we? [Behind Recommender Systems: the Geography of the ACM RecSys Community](arxiv.org/abs/2309.03512) by Lorenzo Porcaro, João Vinagre, Pedro Frau, Isabelle Hupont, and Emilia Gomez.

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👇👇👇 is important. Affiliation of researchers coming from developing countries. Non-weird (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) research will hopefully start gaining more visibility and venues!