The Science Behind Music Technology: An animated story

[Simon Dixon]

Hi to the ISMIR Community!

Have you ever had trouble explaining what MIR is to your mum, your uncle, your partner or your kids?    Wouldn't it be cool if there was a short video that explained (in simple terms) what MIR is all about?    Well, here it is!

As part of the outreach of the MIP-Frontiers* project (https://mip-frontiers.eu/), we have produced a 3-minute animated video:

    The Science Behind Music Technology: An animated story   -    https://youtu.be/YgYV-7-ohxQ

Big thanks to all the MIP-Frontiers team, especially:

• Giorgia Cantisani (Telecom Paris) for taking the lead on this project
• the musicians: Diego Di Carlo, the band Mandela, and sound engineer Alberto Di Carlo

... and apologies if we didn't manage to reference your favourite branch of MIR research -  there's only so much that can fit in 3 minutes.  But it is worth watching a few times - you might be surprised how many different aspects we did manage to squeeze in.

Hope you all had a great summer, and I look forward to seeing everyone (virtually) at ISMIR in November,

Simon Dixon

*  This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 765068 

 

--

Simon Dixon
Centre for Digital Music
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond