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...

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...

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...

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...

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

When Pamplona sounds different: the soundscape transformation of San Fermin through intelligent acoustic sensors and a sound repository. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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...

El video de la xerrada ja està disponible aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKAc...

📰 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

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...

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/...

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...

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

🏆 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

🚨 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...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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...

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 🤍

@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...

📰 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

Frederic Font participates in a round table on Technological innovation and social impact: www.linkedin.com/posts/graust...

We have extended the deadline for the Freesound Composition Contest until the 30th of June!! You'll find the terms of the contest here: www.upf.edu/web/phonos/i...

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...

"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. https://f.mtr.cool/rcphhxooiv

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

🎂 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. https://f.mtr.cool/mccacatqiz

🎧 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!

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...

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...

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...

The MTG uses the RES - @bsc-cns.bsky.social supercomputer MareNostrum5 Acc to advance AI music understanding www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...

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...

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...

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...

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! 🎂🥳💖

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...

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...

#Transferència El projecte SENS del grup de Recerca @mtg-upf.bsky.social ha estat seleccionat pel programa Smart Iruña Lab per a una prova pilot a la ciutat de Pamplona @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social

A new pilot project at the MTG (SENS) will distribute a network of smart acoustic sensors in Pamplona to monitor environmental noise in specific areas of the city as part of the Smart Iruña Lab program www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...