Guest researcher at Music Technoly Group, UPF, Barcelona
Introduction – about MTG and my stay
From 20/10/2009 to 29/10/2009, I was a guest researcher at Music Technology Group (MTG), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. The aim of my stay was to obtain feedback from my supervisor, professor Sergi Jordà, relatively to my research, and also to interact with the Tangible UI (Reactable related projects) and Freesound teams.
MTG of Universitat Pompeu Fabra is part of its Department of Information and Communication Technologies, and of its Audiovisual Institute. MTG “is specialized in sound and music computing. With more than 40 researchers coming from different and complementary disciplines, the MTG carries out research on topics such as sound processing and synthesis; music content description; interactive music systems; computational models of perceptual and music cognition; and the technologies related with music social networks”.
Link to Music Technology Group:
http://mtg.upf.edu/
Link to MTG projects:
http://mtg.upf.edu/research/projects
MTG collaborates with TaiK and TKK in several projects, namely in SALERO.
My schedule was as follows:
- 20/10/2009 – 1st meeting with Sergi Jordà
- 21/10/2009 – meeting with Tangible UI team researchers (Daniel Gallardo, Carles F. Julià, Mathieu Bosi)
- 22/10/2009 – meeting with Bram de Jong and Freesound researchers
- 22/10/2009 – 2nd meeting with Sergi Jordà
- 23/10/2009 – meeting with Gerard Roma (Freesound Radio)
- 28/10/2009 – meeting with Daniel Gallardo (TurTan)
The rest of the time was spent mainly compiling, reading/viewing and archiving materials, as well as networking at MTG.
1. Meetings with Sergi Jordà, 20 and 22 October
The first meeting with Sergi Jordà was mainly to work out logistic issues and to make a plan regarding my stay.
In the second meeting, Sergi Jordà gave me valuable feedback regarding the chapters of the dissertation written so far, as well as the research projects that will be included in the scope of the doctoral studies.
