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Music Tech Fest
MTF Labs AB is a Swedish company which runs labs, festivals and events to encourage cross-sector collaboration and innovation through creative work, particularly music. Its origins go back to 2012 when founder Michela Magas established Music Tech Fest, a 3-day festival in London where people from different disciplines gathered to invent and showcase new formats and platforms for musical performance and expression. By 2016 this had evolved into a series of 5-day experimental labs – MTF Labs – where participants work to create hybrid technologies using cutting-edge source material provided by industry and academic partners. The stated aim of these labs is to “address grand challenges through curiosity, ingenuity and collaborative making.” It has been hosted worldwide by partners including Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research New England, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London, with participants such as Viktoria Modesta, Anouk W ...
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Aveiro, Portugal
Aveiro ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. In 2021, the population was 80,880, in an area of : it is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal (after Coimbra). Along with the neighbouring city of Ílhavo, Aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 inhabitants, making it one of the most important populated regions by density in the North Region, and primary centre of the Intermunicipal Community of Aveiro and Baixo Vouga. Administratively, the president of the municipal government is José Ribau Esteves, elected by coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre, who governs the ten civil parishes ( pt, freguesias). History The presence of human settlement in the territory of Aveiro extends to the period associated with the great dolmens of pre-history, which exist in most of the region. The Latinised toponym ‘'Averius'’ derived from the Celtic word ''aber'' (river-mouth, etym.< Brythonic ...
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Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technological innovation in collaboration with academic, government, and industry researchers. The Microsoft Research team has more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, including Turing Award winners, Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Fellows, and Dijkstra Prize winners. Between 2010 and 2018, 154,000 AI patents were filed worldwide, with Microsoft having by far the largest percentage of those patents, at 20%.Louis Columbus, January 6, 201Microsoft Leads The AI Patent Race Going Into 2019 ''Forbes'' According to estimates in trade publications, Microsoft spent about $6 billion annually in research initiatives from 2002-2010 and has spent from $10–14 billion annually since 2010. Microsoft Research has made signi ...
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IRCAM
IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organisationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The extension of the building was designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Much of the institute is located underground, beneath the fountain to the east of the buildings. A centre for musical research Several concepts for electronic music and audio processing have emerged at IRCAM. John Chowning pioneered work on FM synthesis at IRCAM, and Miller Puckette originally wrote Max at IRCAM in the mid-1980s, which would become the real-time audio processing graphical programming environment Max/MSP. Max/MSP has subsequently become a widely used tool in electroacoustic music. Many of the techniques associated with spectralism, such as analyses based on ...
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in 1990 and was named after Pompeu Fabra. UPF has been ranked the best university in Spain since 2015 and 16th best young university in the world in 2022 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Pompeu Fabra University is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Spain. It has occupied first place in the national ranking of scientific productivity since 2009. Academically, the university is known for its selective student admission as more than half of the degrees offered by it have among the highest university entrance grades (''selectivitat'') in the Catalan university system. The university excels in national and international rankings especially in the studies of economics, political science, and law. ...
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Music Technology Group
The Music Technology Group (MTG) is a research group of thDepartment of Information and Communication Technologiesof the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. It was founded in 1994 by its current director, Xavier Serra, and it specializes in sound and music computing research. Ongoing research The research of the MTG is quite close to the core of the Sound and Music Computing interdisciplinary; combining strengths in basic disciplines, such as Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction while being able to apply other disciplines/technologies in order to approach music related application-driven problems. Current active topics include: * ''Audio signal processing'': focusing on spectral modeling for sound synthesis and transformations. * ''Sound and Music description'': focusing on semantic analysis and classification of audio signals. * ''Musical and Advanced Interaction'': focusing on table-top interfaces for musical creation and exploration. * ''Sound a ...
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Framework Programmes For Research And Technological Development
The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the European Research Area (ERA). Starting in 2014, the funding programmes were named Horizon. The funding programmes began in 1984 and continue to the present day. The most recent programme, Horizon Europe, has a budget of 95.5 billion Euros to be distributed over 7 years. The specific objectives and actions vary between funding periods. In FP6 and FP7, focus was on technological research. In Horizon 2020, the focus was on innovation, delivering economic growth faster, and delivering solutions to end users that are often governmental agencies. Background Conducting European research policies and implementing European research programmes is an obligation under the Amsterdam Treaty, which includes a chapter on research and technological development. ...
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Midem
Midem is the acronym for Marché International du Disque et de l'Édition Musicale, which is organised annually in and around the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. The trade show, organized by Reed MIDEM, a subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions, is billed as the leading international business event for the music ecosystem and has been held since 1967. Several thousand musicians, producers, agents, managers, lawyers, executives, entrepreneurs and journalists from around the globe regularly attend the event, which is usually held at the end of January or early February. While delegates from recording, artist management, and publishers network, new artists showcase their material. Also live music is on show in the evenings. The event is developing like the industry and is now focused on the core music business (labels, publishers, rights societies and more), the technology sector (startups, developers and big tech companies), and brands and the agencies that represent ...
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Wired (magazine)
''Wired'' (stylized as ''WIRED'') is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since March/April 1993. Several spin-offs have been launched, including '' Wired UK'', ''Wired Italia'', ''Wired Japan'', and ''Wired Germany''. From its beginning, the strongest influence on the magazine's editorial outlook came from founding editor and publisher Louis Rossetto. With founding creative director John Plunkett, Rossetto in 1991 assembled a 12-page prototype, nearly all of whose ideas were realized in the magazine's first several issues. In its earliest colophons, ''Wired'' credited Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan as its "patron saint". ''Wired'' went on to chronicle the evolution of digital technology and its impact on society. ''Wired'' quickly became recognized ...
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Moritz Waldemeyer
Moritz Waldemeyer (born 1974) is a British/German designer and engineer. He trained as an engineer at King's College London and completed his master's degree in 2001. Since then, he has collaborated with many of the world’s top architects and fashion designers including Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Hussein Chalayan. His work is a fusion of technology, art, fashion and design. Collaborations Having worked as a research scientist at Phillips, Waldemeyer began his career in design engineering projects such as Ron Arad’s ''Lolita'' and ''Miss Haze'' Chandeliers both of which use interactive LED lights: ''Lolita'' displays text messages sent to it, ''Miss Haze'' allows the user to create an LED image on its crystal surface via a palm pilot. Other prestigious projects he has worked on include Yves Behar’s ''Voyage'' Chandelier (2005), Zaha Hadid’s ''Z Island'' kitchen (2006), FredricksonStallard’s'' Pandora'' Chandelier (2007), Hussein Chalayan’s transforming dresses (s ...
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Reeps One
Harry Yeff (born 18 November 1989), better known by his stage name, Reeps One is an English beatboxer, composer, artist and new media artist. Career In 2020, Reeps One joined the Experiments in Art and Technology program at Bell Labs researching creative applications for A.I. and Machine Learning. In collaboration with Bell Labs and Simon Weldon, Reeps One wrote 'We Speak Music' a documentary culminating is a musical 'chess match' involving a performance with an A.I artist twin called 'Second Self' performed in the anechoic chamber located at Bell Labs New Jersey. Reeps One won the UK Beatbox Championships in 2009 and successfully defended the title a year later in 2010. In November 2018, Reeps One was a co-author to the paper 'Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments published by Oxford Academic. By 2019, Reeps One completed his third artist residency at Harvard University and is currently part of the Experiments in Ar ...
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Eska (singer)
Eska Mtungwazi (born 1971), known professionally as Eska, is a London-born British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Following her inaugural release as a solo artist with her 2013 ''Gatekeeper EP'', her eponymous debut album, ''ESKA'', was released on 27 April 2015. Early and personal life Mtungwazi grew up in South-East London of Zimbabwean parents who moved to the city with her and her siblings when she was two.Clark, Alex"Eska Mtungwazi: 'I deferred my life for years'" ''The Guardian'', 8 November 2015. She describes her early musical exposure as "anything and everything. It was a really crazy mixture", but cites Quincy Jones as being particularly influential at her young age. With the assistance of her teachers, she began learning the violin, earning herself a scholarship at The Conservatoire in Blackheath,Brown, Helen"Eska: the finest female vocalist in the UK" ''The Telegraph'', 15 April 2015. while also exploring her other musical interests such as Bob Marley. ...
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