Welcome to Polifonia

The hybrid stakeholder workshop of 20th September was a success: Polifonia met with nearly all of its 30 stakeholders and found new collaborations over the work packages and pilots. The remainder of the week was dedicated to Polifonia’s 5th plenary project meeting including an advisory board meeting and a hackathon to further explore the possibilities of the project.

Meet the passionate Polifonia experts! Polifonia launches its own YouTube channel with a series of interviews with its brilliant team

With its newly created demos, Polifonia showcased fascinating facets of discovering music similarity and music recommendations

During the spring semester, first-year information and computer science students created a user interface to make data on pipe organs accessible to a wider audience. Polifonia is excited to report on this fruitful collaboration between our stakeholder Utrecht University (Frans Wiering) and the ORGANS pilot.

In this new series on the Polifonia project website, the team would like to shed light on early adopters who have re-used Polifonia’s output. Polifonia’s primary goal is for its software, datasets and other applications to be used and exploited by stakeholders and other parties. One of our early adopters is Global Education Digest’s, which re-uses Polifonia’s CLEF, the platform for crowdsourcing and cataloguing that was developed for musoW.

TONALITIES is developing tools for the modal-tonal identification, exploration, and classification of monophonic and polyphonic notated music from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The TONALITIES pilot just released its first demo, including a video that takes you through the interface step by step!

In order to answer research questions, musical heritage scholars need to combine diverse datasets ranging from music scores, audiovisual material to metadata. They need to identify similar entities and concepts implicitly present in the data, across different collections in different institutions. This process is currently mainly conducted manually, with the diverse results being rarely connected and shared in a way to be easily reused. To overcome the burden of this manual task, INTERLINK will focus on revealing and making compatible the entities and concepts hidden in digital music libraries and audiovisual archives. Pilot leader Jacopo de Berardinis tells in the latest video how they will do that with state-of-the-art methods for computational music analysis.

Andrea Poltronieri (UNIBO) is to present the paper The Harmonic Memory: a Knowledge Graph of harmonic patterns as a trustworthy framework for computational creativity at the Web Conference 2023, a yearly international conference on the topic of the future directions of the World Wide Web.

Many people would probably answer this question with a clear “no”. Is it because they really believe computers cannot? Or maybe there is an inner voice that refuses to believe that musical creativity is not exclusive to humans? In the meantime, AI systems such as DALL-E and ChatGPT have already proven unprecedented performance for generating images and textual artefacts, and are now becoming ubiquitous in our society. What about AI-generated music?

Polifonia pilot FACETS offers solutions for the challenging practice of content-based music retrieval. Pilot leader Raphaël Fournier-S’niehotta explains in the newest video on YouTube how this is helpful with navigating through music libraries.

Following Polifonia’s successful Dom Tower excursion (ORGANS pilot) and Haptic Device workshops (ACCESS pilot), Polifonia again invited music lovers to come and explore music in relation to (art) history. Paul Mulholland (leader WP5) invited the Apollo Youth Panel to try out the Deep Viewpoints app with an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.