Summer School in Music Information Retrieval

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research is motivated by the desire to provide robust, effective and usable methods and tools for all stakeholders with interest in music. During this course particular attention is given to the importance of human understanding and experience of music in MIR research. The topics addressed represent a variety of approaches and place them in context of future MIR research. Subjects include the power of users and context, cross-cultural and ethnic perpectives, gestural approaches and MIR’s contribution to human well-being.

USMIR furthermore provides an exceptional opportunity for even wider international communication because Utrecht University hosts the Eleventh International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010) conference, which immediately follows USMIR (9-13 August). Please visit the conference website for more information about the conference.

USMIR is jointly organized by the Department of Information and Computing Sciences (ICS) of Utrecht University and the Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM), Department of Musicology of Ghent University

The activities of the summer school will consist of lectures by MIR experts, workshops, student presentations and discussion.

More information can be found here.

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This summer school is held under the auspices of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences.

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