Parag Chordia

I, along with my co-creator Alex Rae, spent last week at the Spark music festival in Minneapolis performing our piece for sarod and interactive electronics. You can listen to a version of the piece here and read a bit about it here. The piece followed the basic contour of Indian ...

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A video, with synchronized accompanying slides, of a talk I gave at NIPS. There is a fairly easy to understand introduction to raag as well as some examples that clearly demonstrate how even listeners easily can hear violations of raag structure even when they are umfamiliar with Indian music.

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Two demonstrations of our realtime raag recognition system. Click here and here (same as the embedded vids but higher res). Raag is the fundamental melodic framework of Indian music. It can take years to learn to recognize many raags and even longer to perform them since they are not simply ...

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Listen to some great Indian classical music and help us find out more about why music makes us happy, sad, angry, ecstatic ... Take the survey.

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We recently put together a short non-technical introduction to our work on realtime tabla recognition.

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Went to the NIPS Music and Brain Workshop this year at Whistler. Some nice presentations spanning music cognition and MIR. I presented a basic model of tonlity in Indian classical music. The model is at this point theoretical and represents more of a testable hypothesis than a full theory about ...

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The concert was amazing. Hopefully will post parts here soon. In the meantime, here is an article (or html here wihtout photos) that came out shortly after in the Georgia Tech student paper. There was also a nice little blurb in Creative Loafing by Mark Gresham

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Raag Classification (ISMIR 07) — A presentation at the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval on raag classification starting from the audio signal. We use the relative prevelance of different scale degrees as well as some transition information as features for this task.

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Raag Emotion (ICMC 07) — Presented at the International Computer Music Conference. We wanted to begin to understand the semantic space of raags. Raags have traditionally been associated with specific moods. Here we tried to establish whether listeners agree on these associations and whether they are predicted by basic ...

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