News from polifonia

Tracing Dutch music heritage: Podiumkunst.net a new initiative of Sound and Vision

Partner introduction: King’s College London

Partner introduction: The Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)

David Leeuw with his Family, 1671. Rijksmuseum |PD

Music and Childhood: The Listening Experience Database of Open University and the Child Pilot

Helen Barlow explains the relevance children’s experience of music in the past and how to find the historical evidence for it

Music and Childhood is one of ten pilots in the Polifonia research project into European musical heritage,…

23 July 2021
Compact MIDI controller with endless encoders that also act as buttons, 2011. Livid Instruments | CC-BY

Polifonia presents at the 2021 Music Encoding Conference in Alicante

On 22 July, Polifonia members will give short lightning talks about Linked Data and music encodings in public meeting of Music Encoding Initiative Linked Data Interest Group

Polifonia members participated in this year’s Music Encoding Conference hosted by the University of…

16 July 2021
portrait of Dr. James McDermott

New Colleague: Dr. McDermott is the new principal investigator representing NUI Galway in Polifonia

Prolific computer scientist and musician James McDermott introduces himself

James McDermott: I’m a researcher with interests in metaheuristic optimisation, machine learning,…

9 July 2021
slide of VU presentation by Albert Meroño

Talk: Dr. Meroño has given two talks on many relevant topics to Polifonia

Albert Meroño’s talks focused on representing and transforming different knowledge modalities in Knowledge Graphs

During the last few weeks of June, Albert Meroño has given two talks about many relevant topics for…

6 July 2021
Saint Cecilia, from Slovak National Gallery, Public Domain

#MusicDay: Interview with musicologist Marco Gurrieri about the past and present of Fête de la Musique

‘The main festival explicitly dedicated to music is the Fête de la Musique’, Dr. Gurrieri, expert musicologist, tells about the interesting history of this special day

Make Music Day or Fête de la Musique is a modern invention. How did it start? The main festival…

21 June 2021

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