New Colleague: KCL team welcomes Jacopo de Berardinis
Jacopo de Berardinis brings his expertise in Music Information Retrieval to the Polifonia project
Jacopo de Berardinis is a postdoctoral research associate at King’s College London, currently working at the intersection of machine learning and knowledge representation for music. Previously, he was a PhD student at the Machine Learning and Robotics research group (University of Manchester), and research assistant at the Applied Music Research Lab (University of Liverpool).
Jacopo’s main research interests revolve around the application of machine learning techniques to the field of music information retrieval (MIR), with the goal of designing computational methods for the automatic analysis of music – serving the interests and needs of artists, musicologists, music psychologists and researchers. In particular, his work focuses on music structure analysis, music modelling and generation, and music emotion recognition.Jacopo de Berardinis brings expertise in the MIR research domain, and he is particularly excited about applying his previous research to the Polifonia project. He will focus on the INTERLINK pilot and will also be involved in FACETS. He strongly believes that the interdisciplinary nature of the project, hence the unique opportunity to collaborate with experts in the music domain, are the secret ingredients for creating music intelligence systems that everyone can use – from “my father teaching music in middle school, to my super creative bandmates always reworking musical ideas from the past“.
Image credits: Jacopo de Berardinis at his home office.
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Music libraries currently lack well-founded information retrieval tools. While it is relatively easy to find music based on metadata, content-based music retrieval still remains as a challenge. The Polifonia FACETS pilot aims to tackle this challenge by building a faceted search engine (FSE) for large collections of music documents.
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This is a week of major importance to the Polifonia team, as its researchers join both the conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and the conference for the International Semantic Web and Linked Data Community (ISWC): venues of significant importance for both research and industry. Read more about Polifonia’s contributions below.
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On Oct, 13 an explorative workshop took place in a school in Milton Keynes (UK) as part of the Polifonia project. The “Music Meets Machines workshop” gave a look into cutting-edge technologies used to represent music history.
On Oct, 13 an explorative workshop took place in a school in Milton Keynes (UK) as part of the Polifonia…
Between 16 and 20 October, the Polifonia consortium met in the Italian city of Bologna, home of the project coordinator University of Bologna (UNIBO). During an intensive week, the project team took steps in the development of the pilots, including the long-awaited web portal. Read more about the 7th project meeting here.
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The sensory journey “Data Wanderings” is a new project of Polifonia. The art installation will open on Friday, Oct. 13, in Bologna, Italy and you can visit it until the 28th of the month.
The sensory journey "Data Wanderings" is a new project of Polifonia. The art installation will open…
Friday Oct. 13, high school students are able to explore music history withcutting-edge technologies. The Music Meets Machines: Exploring Music’s Hidden Connections with AI and Knowledge Graphs is a workshop organised by Polifonia and The Open University.
On Friday Oct. 13, high school students are able to explore music history withcutting-edge technologies.…
Make sure to check out a sensory experience called Data Wanderings from this Friday (Oct. 13) in Salaborsa, Bologna. The art installation is a Polifonia project, built by Umanesimo Artificiale and based on sources from our project.
Make sure to check out a sensory experience called Data Wanderings from this Friday (Oct. 13) in Salaborsa,…
ChoCo, the Chord Corpus, is out! After months of work the team is proud to release a 20K+ timed harmonic annotations of scores and tracks. Its release comes with a long awaited publication in the journal ‘Scientific Data’.
ChoCo, the Chord Corpus, is out! After months of work the team is proud to release a 20K+ timed harmonic…
The Netherlands AI Coalition’s working group Culture and Media collaborates with the Working Group Human Capital in their next Communityday – a yearly gathering for professionals working in the culture, media, art and education sector. This year’s line up includes Polifonia.
The Netherlands AI Coalition’s working group Culture and Media collaborates with the Working Group…
Each autumn, an international event dedicated to digital art and electronic music takes place in Bologna: ROBOT Festival. Polifonia will be part of this exciting festival with a talk held by Valentina Presutti, Coordinator of the Project, on the 14th of October.
Each autumn, an international event dedicated to digital art and electronic music takes place in Bologna:…
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 101004746