Platform Grant: Digital Music

伦敦玛丽女王大学的数字音乐中心(C4DM)是音乐和音频技术领域的世界领先的多学科研究小组。我们成立于2001年，现在有60多名成员，包括学者、研究人员/研究员、研究生和常客，可以说是世界上这一领域最大的组织。我们的大部分研究都是在RCUK数字经济/社区和文化的重要主题下进行的，我们在数字信号处理方面的核心竞争力已经被EPSRC确定为“对英国重要”和一个增长领域。英国拥有欧洲最大的创意产业和世界上最大的音乐产业之一(CBI：Creating Growth，2010)。在过去的5年里，音乐产业经历了巨大的变化，新的数字和流媒体服务，如Spotify，为初创企业和中小企业以及大规模的音乐研究打开了新的机会。与此同时，作为玛丽皇后(QMedia)创意技术和数字媒体战略投资的一部分，我们扩大了我们的团队，以加强我们在音乐感知与认知、音乐与语言和表演方面的专业知识，以补充我们在信号处理、音乐信息学和互动方面的现有优势。这项平台赠款的目的是提供基础资金，使我们能够继续从战略的角度看待我们的研究。我们的短期和中期战略有三个方面：“音乐在这里”(Exo)加上“音乐在这里”(Endo)，建立在数字信号处理(Core)等基本核心能力的基础上。我们将通过以下途径做到这一点：进行大胆的可行性研究，使我们在实现战略目标方面取得快速进展；保留关键RAS的战略技能，保持集团的重要优势和能力；加强我们的国际联系，并通过实习和外展活动建立新的跨学科联系；通过新的知识交流战略，包括商业合作伙伴关系和可重复使用的软件和数据，最大限度地提高我们研究的影响；以及开展公共参与活动，向更广泛的受众推广我们的研究。我们亦会继续透过辅导、嘉宾讲座、活动安排、互访及培训课程等活动，协助我们的RAS成功发展他们在学术界或业界的事业。我们亦会为研究人员推出新的导师计划，以尽量发挥他们的潜能。在建议的平台资助计划的5年内，这项协调一致的研究计划将在人类音乐处理模式及应用于具挑战性的工业规模数码音乐机会方面实现一步一步的转变。

The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of Music & Audio Technology. Established in 2001, and now with over 60 members, including academics, research staff/fellows, research students, and regular visitors, we are arguably the largest group in this area in the world. Much of our research is within the important RCUK Digital Economy / Communities and Culture theme, and our core competence in Digital Signal Processing has already been identified by EPSRC as "important to the UK" and an area for growth. The UK has the largest creative sector in Europe, and one of the world's largest music industries (CBI: Creating Growth, 2010).Over the last 5 years, the music industry has undergone massive changes, with new digital and streaming services such as Spotify opening up new opportunities for startup businesses and SMEs, as well as large-scale music research. In parallel with this, as part of a strategic investment in creative technology and digital media at Queen Mary ("qMedia"), we have expanded our group to strengthen our expertise in music perception & cognition, music & language, and performance, to complement our existing strengths in signal processing, music informatics, and interaction.This aim of this Platform Grant is to provide underpinning funding to allow us to continue to take a strategic view of our research. Our short- and medium-term strategy is threefold: "Music is out there" (Exo) plus "Music is in here" (Endo), built on underlying core competencies such as in digital signal processing (Core). We will do this through: undertaking adventurous feasibility studies, allowing rapid progress towards our strategic objectives; retaining strategic skills in Key RAs, maintaining important strengths and competencies in the group; strengthening our international links and building new interdisciplinary links through internship and outreach activities; maximizing the impact of our research through a new knowledge exchange strategy, including business partnerships and reproducible software and data; and undertaking public engagement activities to promote our research to a wide audience. We will also continue to help our RAs successfully develop their careers towards academia or industry, through activities such as mentoring, guest lectures, event organization, exchange visits and training courses, and we will also introduce new mentoring schemes for Investigators to maximize their potential.Over the 5 years of the proposed Platform Grant, this concerted programme of research will achieve a step-change in modelling of human music processing and in its application to challenging industrial-scale digital music opportunities.