Hello!

I’m a data scientist based near London with broad interests across audio and music information retrieval and understanding.

I currently hold two positions within industry and academia. I work part-time on machine learning research and development at Colossal Sound. Separately, I am also a part-time research assistant for Iran Roman’s work into multimodal artificial intelligence at the School of Electronic and Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.

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Research

My research draws on a wide variety of techniques from across music information retrieval, audio signal processing, explainable artificial intelligence, and corpus analysis. I am also interested in developing reusable technologies and datasets that can be deployed by researchers across a broad variety of domains relating to music and audio. I have published articles in Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Music Perception and Royal Society Open Science. More information about can be found here regarding my publications and talks.

I completed my PhD in Music Computing at the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge, supervised by Peter Harrison. My work at Cambridge considered what large-scale computer modelling, data analysis, and artificial intelligence can teach us about the ways in which humans create, understand, and engage with improvised forms of music like jazz. Several projects I worked on advanced the technical state of the art in automatic music artist identification and symbolic music generation.

My PhD research was supported by a Vice-Chancellor’s award from the Cambridge Trust. Individual projects completed during this period were sponsored by awards and grants from Cambridge Digital Humanities, Music & Letters Trust, and the Royal Musical Association. During my PhD, I also undertook a research internship in Spotify’s Audio Intelligence lab, working with Jan Van Balen on methods for automatic sample detection in hip-hop music.

Prior to this time, I received my master’s and undergraduate degrees from the Faculty of Music at Oxford University, where I graduated from both programmes with the highest mark in my year. My postgraduate study was funded by a scholarship from Linacre College, Oxford. I also taught for a time in the music department at Kingswood School, Bath.

Music

Alongside my work in academia and industry, I have worked sporadically as a musician (guitar, bass, and electronics) and sound recordist. I’ve typically worked in either contemporary classical or jazz styles, but would consider myself to be comfortable within most notated and improvised settings.

As a performer, I’ve been lucky to work with acts including Clean Bandit, Everything Everything, and with members of Fires of London and Dinosaur. Projects I’ve worked on have variously been funded by Sound and Music and Arts Council England. In the past, I’ve studied guitar with Chris Montague and Stuart Ryan, and improvisation with Jason Rebello and John Law.

You can listen to some of my playing on several of the recordings released by JazzSoc Records, a record label I co-founded in 2020 while a student at Oxford. My audio production showreel can be found on YouTube. Finally, for a while I also maintained the blog WallpaperJazz, which contains my own transcriptions of various jazz improvisations and recordings.

_{(I can also be heard playing guitar on this viral TikTok…)}