Research

Research at IPEM has a focus on music information retrieval and embodied music cognition, comprising topics related to archiving, interactive multimedia, audio/data-mining, music search and retrieval, music and movement, emotions, and neuroscience. The IPEM approach is based on computational and empirical methods, which includes the use of acoustical/sonological, perceptual/motor, cognitive/emotive, and social/cultural approaches to music analysis. IPEM thereby aims at bridging objective measurement with subjective experience.

Skills at IPEM are situated in diverse domains, such as, musical audio description (manual and automatic), monitoring sensitive body responses to music, computational music processing, user-centered analysis, statistical processing, and theory formation.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

EmcoMetecca Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technologies for Cultural/Creative Applications
EBRAMUS Europe, Brain and Music: New perspectives for stimulating cognitive and sensory processes
MEFEMCO Methodological Foundations of Embodied Music Cognition
SEAT Sensors en Elektronica voor Ambulante Toepassingen (Sensors and Electronics for Ambulant Applications)
TIMELY Time in Mental Activity
BIR&D Belgian Industrial Research and Development
CIMUSIC Music for Cochlear Inplant users
TEXTIELMOBIEL
GOASEMA Semantic Description of Musical Audio

PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS

IPEM Toolbox
DEMCO new methods for the DEscription of Musical COntent
DEKKMMA Digitalization of the Ethnomusicological Sound Archive of the Royal Museum for Central Africa 2003-2007
S2S^2 Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound
POFADEAM Preservation and On-line Fruition of the Audio Documents from the European Archives of Ethnic Music
MELO Muzikale Electronische Leerobjecten
ConGAS (COST 287) Gesture Controilled Audio Systems
MAMI Musical Audio Mining - "Query by humming"
MEGA Multisensory Expressive Gesture Applications
SPEAC Sensitive Processing of Artistic Content
Archive Project Conservation and digitization of the IPEM archive