Blog hub
DIY Lab
Hands-on tinkering with purpose: Arduino, sensors and code to make music with your hands.
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EssayGaita Hero and EMTI Fervienza: evaluating the sound
In 2011 I designed a system to check Asturian bagpipe scores. I'm still pulling the same thread: comparing a performance against a reference is an MIR problem.
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TutorialMIDI vs MusicXML in Python: what survives and what doesn't
An experiment with music21 and pretty_midi: the same phrase exported to MIDI and MusicXML. What survives in each format, with real figures.
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TutorialHow to compute a spectrogram with librosa
A step-by-step tutorial, with a downloadable notebook, on going from real audio to its spectrogram with librosa: STFT, decibels, and reading harmonic bands.
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GuideHow to build an audio corpus for music research
An audio corpus is not a playlist: it is a structured, labelled, reproducible collection. What it takes to make one genuinely useful for MIR research.
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TutorialMaking music with Arduino: from buzzer to MIDI
How to get sound out of an Arduino, from a buzzer with tone() to turning sensors into controllers. A practical walkthrough, no expensive hardware.
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