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The Music Technology Group (MTG) of the UPF, created in 1994, works with sound and music technologies, conducting research on an international scale and transferring its results through partnerships with companies, licenses and spin-offs.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Music technology; audio processing; smart instruments; artificial intelligence; automatic sound description; music education
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Technological capabilities
The MTG combines scientific, technological and artistic methodologies to understand, model and generate sound and music signals, with the aim of contributing to several strategic areas with a significant social and economic impact, such as:
- Artistic creation: Developing tools to enhance people’s creativity.
- Cultural preservation: Striving to understand, gain access to and preserve the sound and musical heritage of our world.
- Music education: Developing technologies to support and enhance the learning of music.
- Health and well-being: Investigating how technologies can promote the personal and social benefits of music.
- Sustainable development: Creating methodologies to describe and preserve our sound environment.
The MTG has several technologies available to third parties for their industrial exploitation, such as the Essentia library (a collection of algorithms for the analysis, description and synthesis of audio and music) and Freesound.org (a sound repository equipped with technologies to optimize accessing and searching for content).
TOPTechnological fields
Big Data + IA, Immersive technologies and digital entertainment
Digital assets
Relevant equipment
Engineering department cluster: centralized storage, supercomputing, cloud virtualization and micro-services infrastructure. Recording studios, post-production (5.0 audio), concert hall with 3D audio system.
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