{"39800":{"#nid":"39800","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Creating Systems that Listen Intelligently","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are developing technologies to advance human interaction with music.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMusic Professor Parag Chordia says that technology is transforming the way we listen to music, the way we discover music and the way we create it. His research focuses on building systems that can listen to music and respond intelligently. The artificial intelligence is designed to analyze the \u0027musical DNA\u0027 of songs, using techniques from machine learning and signal processing to find the hidden patterns in the music.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re trying to create intelligent technologies that will make people\u0027s interaction with music more satisfying and enjoyable,\u0022 said Chordia. \u0022At the end of the day, music is one of those transcendent phenomena that lifts us up and makes life worth living.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Chordia, technology can play a role in music discovery by recommending new music to listeners, and in music creation, allowing non-musicians to experience the joy of musical performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Right now there are tens of thousands of songs released each year. Technology can be a \u0027personal ear\u0027 and help someone find music they love,\u0022 said Chordia. \u0022Technology can also be a virtual band for a guitar player by listening to what is being played and creating the appropriate accompaniment.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChordia\u0027s research also includes a collaboration with Melody Moore Jackson, adjunct associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, in which brain imaging techniques are used to learn how the brain reacts during the creative process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re looking at whether specific patterns of brain activity correspond to specific musical tasks,\u0022 said Chordia. \u0022I\u0027m particularly interested in improvisation and what happens in the brain when a person is creating music on the fly.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChordia said he hopes to apply what he learns from the research on music creativity to engineering and other art forms as well. \u0022Music is a form of creative problem-solving, which is relevant for many other situations that require us to make real-time decisions in dynamic environments.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Professor Parag Chordia\u0027s research also includes studying brain imaging to learn how creativity is produced"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are developing technologies to advance human interaction with music.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers are also studying brain imaging and creativity."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-11-07 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:20","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39801":{"id":"39801","type":"image","title":"Parag Chordia and music technology graduate studen","body":null,"created":"1449174117","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:21:57","changed":"1475894251","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:31","alt":"Parag Chordia and music technology graduate studen","file":{"fid":"189634","name":"tmm82392.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmm82392_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmm82392_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":64605,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tmm82392_1.jpg?itok=dmO1Kbe_"}}},"media_ids":["39801"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtcmt.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1178","name":"Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"1932","name":"human computer interaction"},{"id":"1930","name":"interaction with computers"},{"id":"1931","name":"listening machines"},{"id":"1180","name":"Music"},{"id":"1929","name":"Parag Chordia"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}