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Servei de Recerca de la UPF @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎶 MTG-UPF to lead European Parliament's study on the social and technological role of music. The project will examine how music can contribute to territorial cohesion, community well-being, cultural diplomacy, inclusion and the development of a shared European identity. ➡️ ow.ly/3S1850ZNhPM

A detailed view of piano keys alongside a sheet of musical notation, emphasizing harmony.

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

MTG launches Musitopia, an all-in-one wellness platform that combines the power of music with mental health practices, including breathing exercises, binaural beats, guided meditations, music soundscapes and sessions with therapists. Explore Musitopia today! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/news...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

2 PhD positions starting in October 2026. We are seeking motivated researchers who wish to contribute to cutting-edge research in one of these areas: Sound and Music Representation Learning Machine Listening Computational Musicology. Information and applications: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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2 PhD Positions at the MTG - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF

. Research group specialised in audio signal processing, music information retrieval, musical interfaces, and computational musicology.

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Xavier Serra participates in the MIR Community-building Workshop on Music AI. This two-day event is hosted at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi on February 14-15, and functions as a "warm-up" for the upcoming ISMIR 2026. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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Xavier Serra participates in the MIR Community-building Workshop on Music AI - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF

The workshop is a previous event to the upcoming ISMIR 2026

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Next week Genis Plaja defends his PhD thesis "Deep Learning Approaches for Music Processing in a Computational Musicology Context". 📅 February 13th 2026 at 10:00h (CET) 📍 UPF Poblenou campus (room 55.309 Tanger building) and online www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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Genís Plaja defends his PhD thesis - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF

Friday, February 13th 2026 at 10:00h (CET)- Room 55.309 (3rd floor) Tanger building (UPF Poblenou) and online

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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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

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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...

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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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Enginyeria UPF @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

📰 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

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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: www.upf.edu/web/phonos/i...

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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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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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...

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Daniel Arteaga @dnlrtg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🏆 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...

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Dolby Barcelona Scientific Paper Award 2025 - Dolby Professional

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Rutger Muller @rutgermuller.nl · 21/10/2025

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

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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 www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨 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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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...

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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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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@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...

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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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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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...

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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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roser @roserbatlleroca.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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 🤍

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Enginyeria UPF @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

📰 EnginyEria UPF conclou els cicles #DeepTechTalks debatent sobre el futur ètic i transparent de la #IA en la música 🗣️ "Com més gran és la revolució, més gran ha de ser la responsabilitat" ℹ️ cutt.ly/Lrb6GZRY @upf.edu @mtg-upf.bsky.social

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Seminar by Oriol Nieto (Senior Research Engineer at Adobe Research) on Generative AI for Sound Design. Tuesday May 20th at 15h CET i at UPF @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social and online www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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Seminar by Oriol Nieto on Generative AI for Sound Design

Tuesday May 20th at 15h CET in room 55.410 (UPF Poblenou Campus) and online

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 13/05/2025

"Com regular l’ús de la IA al món de la música?", el tema central del proper cicle DeepTech Talk organitzat per @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social per abordar els diferents reptes tecnològics en el marc del seu 25è aniversari. f.mtr.cool/rcphhxooiv

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Enginyeria UPF @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

EnginyEria UPF - #DeepTechTalks | Generative Music in the Context of Trustworthy AI 🗣️ "This #DeepTechTalk brings together voices from tech, law, music, and industry to explore how we can ensure #AI in music remains responsible and revolutionary" ℹ️ lnkd.in/dBtVqJjm @mtg-upf.bsky.social @upf.edu

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 14/04/2025

🎂 20 anys de FreeSound, la plataforma líder per compartir sons amb llicències CC impulsada per la #UPFBarcelona El grup de recerca en Tecnologia Musical d’@enginyeria-upf.bsky.social va llançar aquesta plataforma l’abril de 2005 i ja ha acumulat prop de 671.000 sons. f.mtr.cool/mccacatqiz

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roser @roserbatlleroca.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🎧 participate in our short experiment on sound perception help us understand how you identify similarities and relationships between sounds 🧠🎶 available both in English and Catalan: 🔗 en - mtg.upf.edu/similarity-e... 🔗 cat - mtg.upf.edu/similarity-e... thank you for your time and support!

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webMUSHRA

webMUSHRA by International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The registration process for the next Generative Music AI Workshop is now open. The workshop organized by The Sound Of AI and the MTG will take place June 30th -July 4th, 2025, at @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social. Registration is open until April 21st. Information: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/gene...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Seminar by George Naimeh (SoundCloud) at the MTG on March 27, 11AM: "Beyond the Filter Bubble: SoundCloud's Multi-Modal Music Discovery System". At @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social (Campus Poblenou) and online. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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Seminar by George Naimeh on SoundCloud's Multi-Modal Music Discovery System

Thursday, March 27th 2025, 11AM (CET), at UPF Campus Poblenou room 55.410 and online

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Jyoti Narang defends her PhD thesis: "Analyzing Singing Voice Expressivity: Focus on Singing Voice Musical Dynamics" 🗓️ March 24th, 4PM 📍 UPF Poblenou Campus - room 55.309 www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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Jyoti Narang defends her PhD thesis

Monday, March 24th 2025 at 16:00h - Room 55.309 (3rd floor) Tanger building (UPF Poblenou)

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In the context of the UPF-BMAT Chair on AI and Music, we offer 2 PhD positions to cover topics related to the development of AI models to support the music sector, emphasizing ethical approaches. 🔹 Application deadline: April 21st 2025 🔹 Starting date: October 2025 www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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PhD positions on AI and Music

PhD positions on AI and Music 10.03.2025 RRSS WhatsApp RRSS Bluesky RRSS Twitter RRSS Facebook RRSS email Copiar URL PhD positions on AI and Music Application deadline: April 21st 2025.... Research...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Xavier Serra, Thomas Nutall, Adithi Shankar, invited experts to the Workshop on AI applications for Indian Music, which will be organized by IIT Hyderabad in April 2025 www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

El butlletí de cultura digital del dept de Cultura de la Generalitat publica una article de Karma Peiró, que va ser part del projecte del MTG Challenges and Opportunities in Music Tech: culturadigital.blog.gencat.cat/com-conviura...

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Com conviurà la IA amb la música humana? El futur ha arribat

Visiteu l'entrada per obtenir més informació.

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 20/02/2025

Un dia com avui, fa 157 anys, va néixer Pompeu Fabra, l'enginyer i lingüista que va ordenar i normativitzar la llengua catalana moderna. Per molts anys, mestre! 🎂🥳💖

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Tomorrow, February 18th at 10:30AM (CET), Guillem Cortès defends his PhD thesis "Music Identification with Audio Fingerprinting. An Industrial Perspective". At UPF Poblenou campus @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social and online >> www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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MTG-UPF @mtg-upf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In 2025 Freesound turns 20! We want to celebrate it with a number of activities around the theme of Intangible Heritage. To start with, we are launching a composition contest, which will be open until May 31st. And more things to come... www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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