2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production

by Admin — Tuesday, 13 September 2016

C4DM was host to the second edition of the Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, one year after the Digital Media Technology (DMT) Lab at Birmingham City University brought it into existence. Over a hundred delegates registered, primarily from the UK but also from mainland Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, the USA...

AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production with Josh Reiss & Brecht De Man @BrechtDeMan @c4dm @QMEECS @QMUL #WIMP2 pic.twitter.com/V4TxB7XUmE
— The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

The event consisted of 2 keynotes, 8 paper presentations, 22 more poster presentations, and a panel session, and took place at Queen Mary's Charterhouse Square campus.

Keynote 1

The first keynote was delivered by Bryan Pardo from Northwestern University, who with his Interactive Audio Lab has significantly shaped the field of intelligent music production.

Bryan Pardo "I want the tool to learn the user's control space" @NorthwesternU #WIMP2 pic.twitter.com/SFZhZAXePZ
— The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

Enjoying a keynote with style from Bryan Pardo @c4dm #wimp2 pic.twitter.com/VhHtEvwvAw
— Rod Selfridge (@RodSelfridge) September 13, 2016

Paper session 1

Chair: Josh Reiss

ADEPT: framework 4 adaptive digital audio fx - Owen Campbell, Curtis Roads, A Cabrera, M Wright & Y Visell #wimp2 pic.twitter.com/yNpTwOcuFx — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016	Who said machine learning should be hard? Amazing hand-drawn presentation from @iver56 at #WIMP2 #AI #NeuralNetworks pic.twitter.com/dOtbfj2zf8 — Brecht De Man (@BrechtDeMan) September 13, 2016
Exploring visuals of channel activity for #interfaces for #music #mixing #wimp2 @stevengelineck @uni_copenhagen pic.twitter.com/9LFo4ttZOn — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016	"In your face #drums!" - #Sonic cartoons and #semanticaudio processing: #wimp2 @bourbizzle @UniWestLondon pic.twitter.com/XYq4mWckej — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

Keynote 2

The afternoon was delivered by François Pachet from Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris, France. Having authored several important publications on techniques for automatic music production and composition, his presentation featured several jaw-dropping demonstrations of machine-made music.

Legend @francoispachet starts his keynote at #wimp2 @SONYCSLMusic hosted by @c4dm @QMEECS @QMUL pic.twitter.com/4kLNaELD2R
— The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

François Pachet @SONYCSLMusic playing Ode To Joy as sung by Take 6, generated by a computer... #WIMP2 :-| pic.twitter.com/8fSLG4OeLl
— Brecht De Man (@BrechtDeMan) September 13, 2016

Paper session 2

Chair: Brecht De Man

"State of the art instrument recognition is not applicable to identification of #drum overhead #microphones" #wimp2 pic.twitter.com/rJBcEHnWfp — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016	Another great talk! Loudness #algorithms for automatic #mixing #wimp2 @MyBCU @c4dm @QMEECS @QMUL pic.twitter.com/YQCi2jgKmm — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016
Engaging! @ #wimp2 from @Fraunhofer_IDMT New sonorities for #jazz: Separation and #mixing using deep #NeuralNetworks pic.twitter.com/6KITQ7MxN8 — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016	Gerard Roma presents work: #Music #remixing and #upmixing using source separation #wimp2 @UniOfSurrey @markplumbley pic.twitter.com/HuhhYtZXiL — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

Panel session: "Future Directions in Intelligent Sound Engineering"

Chair: Ryan Stables

Panel members: Henry Bourne (Calrec Audio), Andy Farnell (Mogees), Bruno Fazenda (University of Salford), Alessandro Palladini (Music Group)

Future of Intelligent #Sound Engineering #wimp2 @henry_bourne @calrecaudio @mogees @brunofazenda @alexpalladini pic.twitter.com/zYdNZ1qeZh
— The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

Poster sessions

All submitted papers were presented as a poster, on display during lunch and coffee breaks.

Presenting a poster about my PhD at the @AESorg #WIMP2 today. @arts_institute @PlymUniResearch #ICCMR pic.twitter.com/sl9EbrcQsQ — Aurélien Antoine (@Aurelien_Ant) September 13, 2016	Poster sesh! #wimp2 @bfazenda @AlexMacLiam @SalfordAcoustic @SalfordUni intelligent #musicproduction pic.twitter.com/7WmANZA1sA — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016
#Wimp2 - #Audio #interfaces based on #data #visualisation first principles @HuddersfieldUni @HudCompEng @HuddUniMTP pic.twitter.com/sRXkinpLis — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016	Proud display of @c4dm @QMUL and @DMTLab_BCU @MyBCU technology at #WIMP2! #JavaScript #BigData pic.twitter.com/A6BoAHeWVJ — Brecht De Man (@BrechtDeMan) September 13, 2016
Posters at #wimp2 inspiring discussions on Intelligent Music Production @c4dm @QMEECS @QMUL pic.twitter.com/0LbtG2YcuV — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016	#wimp2 Disseminating knowledge - development of intel mic array designer @hklworld @HuddersfieldUni @BrechtDeMan pic.twitter.com/s9u4rdNAbw — The Committee (@AudioEngSocUK) September 13, 2016

For more information on the workshop, see www.aes-uk.org/wimp/. Workshop proceedings in the form of two-page papers are available at c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/events/wimp2/. More tweets can be found via the #WIMP2 hashtag.

Workshop chairs Josh Reiss and Brecht De Man wish to thank the C4DM Platform Grant for funding the event, EECS and QMSU staff for technical support, and the C4DM volunteers: Dave Moffat, Rod Selfridge, Alessia Milo, Di Sheng, Emmanouil Chourdakis, William Wilkinson, Adàn Benito Temprano and Saurjya Sarkar.