@jvanbalen.bsky.social
Audio ML & recommender systems researcher at Spotify. Previously: Apple, Academia 📌 europe-west-1 🏠 jvbalen.github.io
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
09.02.2026 23:56 — 👍 3010 🔁 608 💬 51 📌 86Gefeliciteerd, welverdiend! 🥂
03.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gotta love that we know this at all
20.01.2026 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract of the paper and turnaround time from submission to publication.
Example double page of the Flora Batava series including illustration and text sections. Letters indicate the different segments of the text: a) “species names”, b) “flowering time”, c) “classification”, d) “sexual characteristics”, e) “species traits”, f) “habitat”, g) “medicinal use”, h) “domestic use”.
It's incredibly important to have a journal like Open Humanities Data. Had the pleasure working with @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social to publish a dataset of 11k+ records from the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands (19th century)
👀 Look at that turnaround time: 1 month!
doi.org/10.5334/johd...
Did you catch Mavis Staples’ recent version of Godspeed? It’s not bad (but also not instrumental obv)
02.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
15.11.2025 01:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2I’ve only managed to once, but saw more memorable shows than all of the rest of that year
08.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0100% agree
08.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The fomo is very real
24.09.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Done, cheers! Hope to catch you there
10.09.2025 16:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Long 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
I don’t enjoy sharing these things, but I feel like the alternative (collectively) is worse.
26.06.2025 17:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How does one productively channel the anger from hearing so many stories like this?
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-...
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:
WASPAA 2023
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
I am super enjoying this podcasting thing, made a second episode about McCoy Tyner and quartal harmony ethanhein.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
09.04.2025 18:17 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
ISMIR 2024 conference logo: ISMIR written as an orange bridge over San Francisco written as blue water. Conference dates Nov 10-14 2024 encircle a golden record at the center of the dip in the "M" of ISMIR.
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
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.
15.02.2025 18:24 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.
hi
06.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 4964 🔁 1126 💬 39 📌 84Colin Stetson is the closest I’ve heard anyone get to making music about breathing
31.12.2024 19:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
Most striking part of this one, possibly the mechanical accordeons for bears?
07.12.2024 18:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Most striking part of this one, possibly the mechanical accordeons for bears?
07.12.2024 18:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“To carry out this work, we have also proposed a dataset of failed-style recorders for this task” 👏
28.11.2024 08:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0♥️ two timpani players! Mahler? Holst?
22.11.2024 22:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
