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Congratulations to our undergraduate students who completed research placements at SoundOut this summer! SoundOut is a world leader in new music testing, helping major record companies to predict how music will resonate with customers, and helping organisations to match brand personality to music.

Project titles:

  • Reuben Bance: Using a text-to-music generative AI to create music consistent with a SoundOut Brand Profile
  • Iona Salter: Exploring the relationship between SoundOut data and different sets of word vectors
  • Lachlan Kennedy: Relating musical features to Jungian archetypes

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Library exhibition entitled 'Music and Science: Exploring the Scientific Principles Behind Musical Phenomena'

4 July 2024

Harriet Edwards, recent undergraduate music and science student, has curated a library exhibition entitled 'Music and Science: Exploring the Scientific Principles Behind Musical Phenomena'. This exhibition is currently on display at the John's College Library, and has an online version available at this link . Do have a...

Call for papers: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age (TEDA) 2024

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Huw Cheston starts internship at Spotify

10 June 2024

Good luck to Huw Cheston, current CMS PhD student, who starts an internship with Spotify today! Huw will be developing new machine-learning models for better understanding how different people contribute individual stylistic elements to musical recordings.