Recap: Polifonia versus Sónar 2023!
Last weekend, Polifonia was part of Sonár festival Barcelona. Max Tiel from our consortium partner Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, gave a presentation on the insights of the Polifonia project.
Last weekend, Polifonia was part of Sonár festival Barcelona. Max Tiel from our consortium partner Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, gave a presentation on the insights of the Polifonia project.
AI: a booming topic in music industry
The session was part of the Sónar+D programme and featured three projects to display the effect of AI on the music industry. Together with Thunderboom Records and ESMUC, Polifonia displayed the importance of investigating creative uses of AI in the music industry, the opportunities in using heritage materials and the possibilities that human-AI collaborations can provide.
There was a lot of attention for AI and robotics this year at Sonár festival. Many talks and panels touched upon the possibilities of creative algorithms for musicians and in the project area, lots of experimental instruments and tools were presented using AI. The topic is booming within the music industry and Polifonia is in the center of all these developments.
Open mic session at Sónar+D
Sónar+D is where music, creativity, and technology come together in the heart of Barcelona. This year’s Sónar by Day included over 70 activities – live shows, DJ sets, talks, open mic sessions, installations, and more. During the open mic presentation by Polifonia, there was special emphasis on the phase the project has now entered: the demos and early adopters phase. Potential new early adopters were encouraged to test the demos and consider using Polifonia technology.
Early adopters
The Polifonia project is full of valuable AI and music research and prototypes. And the goal is to showcase these developments to the outside world and continue our work with partners outside the project.
Would you like to know more about this treasure chest of AI and music? If so, check out our demo section and don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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From April 8 to May 6 Polifonia organised their own version of the Eurovision Song Contest, the Polifonia Song Contest: musicians of all levels were challenged to create the ‘soundtrack of our history’ by using samples from the rich collections in the Polifonia project. Today we can announce the winning song.
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The consortium is preparing for the last face-to-face consortium meeting of the Polifonia project in April 2024.
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Polifonia is known for its strong links with academia and is pleased to present some highlights in its involvement in research and associated conferences.
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In 2024, Paul Mulholland, Naomi Barker and Paul Warren (The Open University, U.K) are continuing their experiment investigating how different kinds of music influence the appreciation of an artwork; and to what extent the same kind of sense-making processes are used when viewing artwork and when listening to music. To do this, the researchers are looking for more participants. They have now automated the process so that participants can complete the experiment online without the involvement of an experimenter.
Music instrument with music notes on white background illustration In 2024, Paul Mulholland, Naomi…
During the last project meeting, the Polifonia consortium extensively discussed how to foster the impact of the project in academia and beyond. How to make the output of Polifonia sustainable after the lifetime of the project is one important aspect. But fostering re-usability does not end by long-term preservation of certain assets (such as data and tools). In Polifonia Research Ecosystem – Impact of a project. A webinar on Data re-use and workflows, we will discuss how we ensure that more fluid assets such as interfaces, but also experiences in setting up and executing workflows via those interfaces, become reproducible and reuseable.
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For the Polifonia project, the Central Institute for Cataloging and Documentation (ICCD) of the Italian Ministry of Culture is carrying out activities on the historical bell heritage. The ICCD has also initiated a process of documentation of the practices and knowledge associated with bell production through collaboration with historical Italian foundries.
The bell casting process performed by the Pontifical Marinelli Foundry. Photo courtesy of ICC For…
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 101004746