Bryan Pardo and his students in the Northwestern University Interactive Audio Lab develop key technologies that let composers, researchers, performers and casual listeners retrieve, study, edit and interact with music in new ways. This talk provides an overview of three recent projects developed in the lab: Tunebot - a music search engine that finds a song from a melody sung to the computer, SocialEQ - a system to automatically personalize the user interface of audio production software, and REPET -- a system that automatically separates audio recordings into (vocal) foregrounds and (instrumental) backgrounds by learning the musical groove.

A lecture hosted by Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering, the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, the School of Music, and the Segal Design Institute.