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Research group of @upf.edu (@enginyeria-upf.bsky.social). Audio signal processing, music information retrieval, musical interfaces, computational musicology and more
Next week Hyon Kim defends his PhD thesis "Piano Performance Analysis via Dynamics Estimation and Feedback Classification".
📅 January 27th 2026 at 10:00h (CET)
📍 UPF Poblenou campus (room 51.100 La Nau building) and online
www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
@enginyeria-upf.bsky.social
Hyon Kim defends his PhD thesis - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
Tuesday, January 27th 2026 at 10:00h (CET)- Room 51.100 - La Nau building, 1st floor (UPF Poblenou) and online
www.upf.edu
January 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM
When Pamplona sounds different: the soundscape transformation of San Fermin through intelligent acoustic sensors and a sound repository.

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When Pamplona sounds different: the soundscape transformation of San Fermin through intelligent acoustic sensors and a sound repository - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
A study analyses changes in the urban soundscape during the San Fermin Festival
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December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Xavier Serra receives the Acadèmia d’Excelència award granted by the Ministry of Research and Universities from the Generalitat de Catalunya to support his research activities. Congratulations! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Xavier Serra receives the Acadèmia d’Excelència grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
8 professors at the UPF have obtained the grant, which will support their research activity
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December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
El video de la xerrada ja està disponible aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKAc...
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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📰 Els professors d'EnginyEria UPF, Angel Lozano i Xavier Serra, reben els ajuts Acadèmia d'Excel·lència 2025 de la Generalitat de Catalunya

🗣️ "Els ajuts tenen com a objectiu contribuir a intensificar la tasca de recerca del professorat de les universitats catalanes"

ℹ️ cutt.ly/Ptanewcn
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Xavier Serra oferirá una xerrada sobre els 50 anys d'experimentació musical a Phonos en el marc de l'exposició de la Biblioteca de Catalunya que celebra l'aniversari d'aquesta institució pionera. El 16 de desembre, 18h a la Biblioteca de Catalunya i per streaming:
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Presentació de Xavier Serra “50 anys d’experimentació musical a Phonos” a la Biblioteca de Catalunya - Phonos - UPF
Dimarts, 16 de desembre de 2025 a les 18h. Biblioteca de Catalunya. Entrada gratuïta
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December 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Interview with Frederic Font and Fito Conesa about the Freesound 20 years installation on the Radio 4 (RTVE) program La Barrera del So www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
La Barrera Del So - Sons (quasi) desapareguts i Freesound + OT, plataformes de vídeo i condicionants per la música (En 15 Segons)
Emisión del programa La barrera del so titulado Sons (quasi) desapareguts i Freesound + OT, plataformes de vídeo i condicionants per la música (En 15 Segons)...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The sound installation "Sounds to be protected. 20 Years of Freesound" will be exhibited at the Poblenou Campus @upf.edu from Nov 17 to 30. Curated in collaboration with the artist Fito Conesa, it reflects on the fragility of sound and its role as intangible heritage. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A vital set of talks on the meaning of sound, technology for accessing it, and planning for the future of freesound -- including coping with the age of AI.

Happy 20th, freesound. The internet will never die.

@mtg-upf.bsky.social h/t @rutgermuller.nl
Freesound, massive shared sounds library, turns 20 with talks and listening - CDM Create Digital Music
Who says the internet is dead? Not Freesound, the massive, community-run, fully free and open library of sounds from birdsong to samples. This incredible repository turns 20 years old today, and they'...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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🏆 It's a pleasure to announce the winner of the Dolby Barcelona Scientific Paper Award 2025: Guillem Cortès Sebastià for PeakNetFP, a scalable neural audio fingerprinting system robust to extreme time stretching.

Details: professional.dolby.com/legal/barcel...
Dolby Barcelona Scientific Paper Award 2025 - Dolby Professional
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November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Soundsystem for Silence by Myubio (Ricky van Broekhoven, Nikolai Gillissen, Rutger Muller) #ImmersiveExperience

Video of exhibition at Can Framis Museum
Celebrating 20 years of Freesound.org
Support: Fundació Vila Casas, Phonos, @mtg-upf.bsky.social, Stimuleringsfonds

Video: BenGordon.net
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Join us in the upcoming activities to celebrate the 20 years of Freesound: “Sounds to be Protected” at the CCCB in Barcelona (Oct 23-26) and Freesound Day at the @upf.edu (Oct 28). All the activities are free, but registration is required for the Freesound Day: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
October 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Benno Weck-Hufnagel defends his PhD thesis "Content-based Retrieval in Large-scale Audio Collections with Natural Language as the Interface". October 27th 2025 at 11:00h (CET)- at UPF @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social and online
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October 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Two new PhD candidates join the MTG @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social: Simone Chieppa and Angelos-Nikolaos Kanatas. Welcome aboard! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Miguel Pérez defends his PhD thesis "Deep Learning approaches to singing voice transcription in pop music". October 22 at 11AM @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Miguel Pérez Fernández defends his PhD thesis - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
Wednesday, October 22nd 2025 at 11:00h (CET)- Room 55.309 (3rd floor) Tanger building (UPF Poblenou) and online
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October 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We are lauching a new platform: MTG-Toolbox. Free and Open-Source Audio & MIDI Applications for musicians, producers, hobbyists, and sound designers. It's designed to make the group's research outputs more accessible to a broad audience with minimal technical barriers: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
October 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Nineteen new theses, carried out and finished during the academic year 2024-2025 in the Master in Sound and Music Computing @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social , are now available: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 Tomorrow, October 10th, is the final day to register for BioDCASE and DCASE workshop!
If you've not yet registered, secure your spot before the deadline!
🔗 Register here: dcase.community/workshop2025...
The MTG organizes the next Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2025) at @upf.edu (October 30-31) + satellite events: BioDCASE (Oct 29) and Freesound 20 anniversary celebration day (Oct 28). The full program will be available soon www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
The MTG organizes the next Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2025) - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
It will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, in October 2025
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October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
To celebrate de Freesound’s 20th anniversary, the Kosmopolis festival (CCCB) will host the sound installation "Sounds to be Protected" (Oct 23-26), and on October 28 we are organizing the Freesound Day, including talks and concerts. The activities are open to everyone: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
October 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
24 new students are joining the Master in Sound and Music Computing @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social this academic year 2025-2026. Welcome!! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
September 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The MTG organizes the next Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2025) at @upf.edu (October 30-31) + satellite events: BioDCASE (Oct 29) and Freesound 20 anniversary celebration day (Oct 28). The full program will be available soon www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
The MTG organizes the next Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2025) - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
It will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, in October 2025
www.upf.edu
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@dazzidd.bsky.social joins the MTG from Sept 1st to lead the project ANIMA funded by the European Commission's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships program. Welcome David!! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
David Dalmazzo joins the MTG under a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
From September 1st, 2025, he will be leading the project ANIMA
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August 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On July 22nd @xavier-serra.bsky.social gives a plenary talk at the Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology organized by @jhu.edu: "Methodologies for Music Understanding and Generation in the Context of Trustworthy AI”. The talk will be streamed online. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Xavier Serra gives a plenary talk at the Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
Xavier Serra gives a plenary talk on 'Methodologies for Music Understanding and Generation in the Context of Trustworthy AI” on July 22nd, streamed online
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July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors: Laura Ibáñez-Martínez, @xavier-serra.bsky.social, Emilia Gómez and
@martinrocamora.bsky.social, and to our colleagues at the
@mtg-upf.bsky.social and the broader MIR community who helped shape this work 🤍
July 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
@roserbatlleroca.bsky.social participates in the panel "Blind algorithms and biased metadata: de-automating equality in the music industry" at @primavera-sound.bsky.social PRO, on June 6th at CCCB www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Roser Batlle participates in the panel Blind algorithms and biased metadata at Primavera Pro
The professional section of Primavera Sound Festival 2025 will offer a session on metadata and gender in the music industry, on June 6th at the Auditori CCCB
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June 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM