Jan Van Balen
@jvanbalen.bsky.social
Audio ML & recommender systems researcher at Spotify. Previously: Apple, Academia
📌 europe-west-1
🏠 jvbalen.github.io
📌 europe-west-1
🏠 jvbalen.github.io
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were you aware that the thing that sounds like a siren in “I Like to Move It” is actually a sample of Sylvester from “You Make Me Feel”?? youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I?...
Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman - I Like To Move It (Official 4K Video)
YouTube video by Strictly Rhythm
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
were you aware that the thing that sounds like a siren in “I Like to Move It” is actually a sample of Sylvester from “You Make Me Feel”?? youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I?...
Long shot. Does anyone here know if AIMC this week supports single day, same day registration? Looks like no, from the site. But I’m interested in dropping by on Friday.
cc @bobltsturm.bsky.social
cc @bobltsturm.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Long shot. Does anyone here know if AIMC this week supports single day, same day registration? Looks like no, from the site. But I’m interested in dropping by on Friday.
cc @bobltsturm.bsky.social
cc @bobltsturm.bsky.social
How does one productively channel the anger from hearing so many stories like this?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid
Sense of helplessness pervades Kafr Malik where IDF killed three Palestinians after locals resisted masked marauders
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How does one productively channel the anger from hearing so many stories like this?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I was fortunate to write some code for the Disklavier parts of the new Jameszoo Album, out now on @brainfeeder.bsky.social
Do listen 💙🙏
→ jameszoo.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Do listen 💙🙏
→ jameszoo.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Music for 17 Musicians, by Jameszoo with Asko|Schönberg
8 track album
jameszoo.bandcamp.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I was fortunate to write some code for the Disklavier parts of the new Jameszoo Album, out now on @brainfeeder.bsky.social
Do listen 💙🙏
→ jameszoo.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Do listen 💙🙏
→ jameszoo.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Reading David Huron’s Sweet Anticipation, on his decades of work on music and expectation, and his 1999 Ernest Bloch lectures (e.g. on empiricism in music research) significantly shaped the way I thought about music & science.
Dave’s post here definitely resonates:
Dave’s post here definitely resonates:
I never worked with David Huron, but he had a tremendous impact on my life in the world of #musicscience. Wrote this for others in the music cognition community who want to share in his memory.
davidjohnbaker.rbind.io/post/2025-06...
davidjohnbaker.rbind.io/post/2025-06...
Remembering David Huron | David John Baker
davidjohnbaker.rbind.io
June 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Reading David Huron’s Sweet Anticipation, on his decades of work on music and expectation, and his 1999 Ernest Bloch lectures (e.g. on empiricism in music research) significantly shaped the way I thought about music & science.
Dave’s post here definitely resonates:
Dave’s post here definitely resonates:
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Our team is hiring a postdoc in Audio AI!
What: speech, music, bioacoustics
How: multiresolution neural networks in the raw waveform
Where: Nantes, France (audio.ls2n.fr)
When: negotiable
How long: 12 months, renewable
Apply before May 10: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share the news
What: speech, music, bioacoustics
How: multiresolution neural networks in the raw waveform
Where: Nantes, France (audio.ls2n.fr)
When: negotiable
How long: 12 months, renewable
Apply before May 10: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share the news
April 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Our team is hiring a postdoc in Audio AI!
What: speech, music, bioacoustics
How: multiresolution neural networks in the raw waveform
Where: Nantes, France (audio.ls2n.fr)
When: negotiable
How long: 12 months, renewable
Apply before May 10: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share the news
What: speech, music, bioacoustics
How: multiresolution neural networks in the raw waveform
Where: Nantes, France (audio.ls2n.fr)
When: negotiable
How long: 12 months, renewable
Apply before May 10: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share the news
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I am super enjoying this podcasting thing, made a second episode about McCoy Tyner and quartal harmony ethanhein.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
The Fourths Chord
The sound that connects McCoy Tyner, Erik Satie, Miles Davis and Star Trek
ethanhein.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am super enjoying this podcasting thing, made a second episode about McCoy Tyner and quartal harmony ethanhein.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
Reposted by Jan Van Balen
ISMIR 2024 Conference Proceedings are now online! ismir.net/conferences/...
Thank you to all of the authors, reviewers, meta-reviewers, and conference organizers for their contributions to a vibrant and innovative research community!
#ISMIR2024 #MIR #Music #Research
Thank you to all of the authors, reviewers, meta-reviewers, and conference organizers for their contributions to a vibrant and innovative research community!
#ISMIR2024 #MIR #Music #Research
February 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ISMIR 2024 Conference Proceedings are now online! ismir.net/conferences/...
Thank you to all of the authors, reviewers, meta-reviewers, and conference organizers for their contributions to a vibrant and innovative research community!
#ISMIR2024 #MIR #Music #Research
Thank you to all of the authors, reviewers, meta-reviewers, and conference organizers for their contributions to a vibrant and innovative research community!
#ISMIR2024 #MIR #Music #Research
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Am reading a big music information retrieval paper purportedly studying trends in musical complexity over time. But then you get in there and the data set is comprised entirely of MIDI files. So this is not a study of music, this is a study of the aspects of music that can be notated.
February 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Am reading a big music information retrieval paper purportedly studying trends in musical complexity over time. But then you get in there and the data set is comprised entirely of MIDI files. So this is not a study of music, this is a study of the aspects of music that can be notated.
Reposted by Jan Van Balen
Reposted by Jan Van Balen
Le 13 décembre 1895, il y a 129 ans jour pour jour, la 2e symphonie de Mahler était jouée pour la première fois.
L'occasion de revoir cet irrésistible montage, qui redonnerait le sourire à un mort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZd...
L'occasion de revoir cet irrésistible montage, qui redonnerait le sourire à un mort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZd...
Mahler enthusiasm
YouTube video by Manelli Vangeli
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Le 13 décembre 1895, il y a 129 ans jour pour jour, la 2e symphonie de Mahler était jouée pour la première fois.
L'occasion de revoir cet irrésistible montage, qui redonnerait le sourire à un mort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZd...
L'occasion de revoir cet irrésistible montage, qui redonnerait le sourire à un mort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZd...
Reposted by Jan Van Balen
Most striking part of this one, possibly the mechanical accordeons for bears?
December 7, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Most striking part of this one, possibly the mechanical accordeons for bears?
“To carry out this work, we have also proposed a dataset of failed-style recorders for this task” 👏
Music2Fail transfers music to a deliberately off-pitch recorder style using a new dataset (FR109); the study explores expressive style transfer beyond typical content-preserving transformations.
Music2Fail: Transfer Music to Failed Recorder Style
Chon In Leong, I-Ling Chung, Kin-Fong Chao, Jun-You Wang, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
arxiv.org
November 28, 2024 at 8:48 AM
“To carry out this work, we have also proposed a dataset of failed-style recorders for this task” 👏