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Introduction--Daniel Ellis and Youngmoo Kim
Pages 41-42

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... To reconcile quantitative signal content with the complex and obscure perceptions and aesthetic preferences of listeners, music information retrieval requires unprecedented collaboration between experts in signal processing, machine learning, data management, psychology, sociology, and musicology. In the first presentation in this session, Brian Whitman (The Echo Nest)
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... Engineering advances have transformed the creative palette available to composers and musicians. Sounds that cannot be produced by physical instru ments can be generated electronically, and modern laptop computers have sufficient processing power to perform complex syntheses and audio transformations.


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