Emmanuel Deruty2020 — One year producing music with artificial intelligenceA retrospective of the one-year collaboration between the Sony CSL A.I. Music project and the Irish musician Donn Healy.Nov 13, 20221Nov 13, 20221
Emmanuel DerutyMusical form from Viennese Classical music to RapForm is to music what grammar is to language. Let’s study form in Contemporary Popular Music so that we may get a better understanding of…Oct 9, 2022Oct 9, 2022
Emmanuel DerutyIntuitive understanding of MFCCsThe mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) of an audio signal are a small set of features (usually about 10–20) which describe the…Sep 16, 2022Sep 16, 2022
Emmanuel DerutyEvaluating the importance of monitoring level in mixing and masteringChoosing the right monitoring level in mixing and mastering is a recurrent issue. It is possible to quantify the importance of the…Sep 15, 2022Sep 15, 2022
Emmanuel DerutyVocal setups in Contemporary Popular MusicOne key goal of our series of posts is to be able to build better artificial intelligence models for music by better understanding the…Sep 5, 2022Sep 5, 2022
Emmanuel DerutyA.I. in music: from advertising soundtracks to innovations in styleThe 2012 Deep Learning revolution opened new perspectives for A.I. music. Still, in 2022, we are yet to hear truly innovative music…Aug 19, 20221Aug 19, 20221
Emmanuel DerutyPitch strength in Pink Floyd, Eminem and MeshuggahAccording to the Oxford Music Online resource, sounds have either pitch or no pitch. Pitch is described as “[t]he particular quality of a…Aug 5, 2022Aug 5, 2022
Emmanuel Deruty“Pitch” doesn’t necessarily mean “notes”. The example of Kanye West’s “On Sight”.It seems evident to almost everybody, music listeners, musicians and scholars alike that the sensation of pitch in music is best…Aug 4, 2022Aug 4, 2022
Emmanuel DerutyContemporary Popular Music that doesn’t use equal temperamentToday’s music is generally considered to be based on the 12-semitone equal temperament. For instance, according to [Lindley, 2001]…Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022
Emmanuel DerutyWhat’s up with the Loudness War in 2022?This is a follow-up to the ISMIR paper [Deruty and Pachet, 2015], entitled “The MIR perspective on the evolution of dynamics in mainstream…Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022
