The Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) aims to promote research in the area of digital music, by bringing together researchers from UK and overseas universities, as well as industry, for its annual workshop. The workshop will include invited and contributed talks and posters. The workshop will be an ideal opportunity for networking with other people working in the area.

This year, two keynote talks will be given by invited speakers (Sophie Scott (UCL), Gus Xia (NYU Shanghai)).

Keynote talks

Keynote 1. Prof. Sophie Scott -Director, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

Title: "Sound on the brain - insights from functional neuroimaging and neuroanatomy"

Abstract: In this talk I will use functional imaging and models of primate neuroanatomy to explore how sound is processed in the human brain. I will demonstrate that sound is represented cortically in different parallel streams. I will expand this to show how this can impact on the concept of auditory perception, which arguably incorporates multiple kinds of distinct perceptual processes. I will address the roles that subcortical processes play in this, and also the contributions from hemispheric asymmetries.

Keynote 2: Prof. Gus Xia - Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai

Title: "Learning interpretable music representations: from human stupidity to artificial intelligence"

Abstract: Gus has been leading the Music X Lab in developing intelligent systems that help people better compose and learn music. In this talk, he will show us the importance of music representation for both humans and machines, and how to learn better music representations via the design of inductive bias. Once we got interpretable music representations, the potential applications are limitless.

If you have queries or need more information visit https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn16/ or email a.bort@qmul.ac.uk