Néstor Nápoles López

Néstor Nápoles López

PhD Candidate in Music Technology

McGill University

Biography

I am interested in all of the ways in which modern technologies can help us to learn, understand, create, and enjoy music.

Interests

  • Computational Music Theory
  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Deep Learning
  • Symbolic and Audio Music Representations
  • Game Development

Education

  • PhD in Music Technology, 2022

    McGill University, Montréal

  • MSc in Sound and Music Computing, 2017

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

  • Licenciatura en Informática, 2013

    Universidad de Guadalajara, México

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

PhD Research Assistant

Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries

Sep 2017 – Present Montréal
Research on Music Information Retrieval topics related with tonal music. Also supporting several projects within the Single Interface for Music Score Search and Analysis (SIMSSA) project.
 
 
 
 
 

MSc Research Assistant

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 Barcelona
Analysis of harmony in Western tonal music. As part of my MSc, I created a roman numeral analysis dataset of Joseph Haydn’s Op.20 string quartets.
 
 
 
 
 

Graphics Software Security Engineer

Intel Corporation

Oct 2014 – Aug 2016 Guadalajara
C/C++/Python tool developer for software security analysis.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

CINVESTAV

Aug 2013 – Sep 2014 Guadalajara
C++ developer.

Recent Posts

Voice leading in repeating harmonies

A brief experiment on 69 chorales to determine whether a voice-leading algorithm should change the voicing when harmonies denoted by the same roman numeral appear contiguously.
Nov 19, 2020 12 min read

Linux with Tensorflow in MSI GL65 (with RTX2070)

I recently changed my laptop. I thought a long journey awaited for me making this relatively new laptop work with Linux. To my surprise, it wasn’t too difficult. Props on MSI for making Linux-friendly hardware! Here are the steps to install the graphics driver and get this laptop running Tensorflow 2 on the RTX2070 card.
Last updated on Apr 17, 2019 4 min read
Linux with Tensorflow in MSI GL65 (with RTX2070)

Featured Publications

October 2020 In ISMIR 2020
Harmonic Reductions As a Strategy for Creative Data Augmentation

Harmonic Reductions As a Strategy for Creative Data Augmentation

A preliminary experiment on harmonic reductions as a data augmentation strategy in tonal MIR tasks
PDF Poster ISMIR Website
October 2020 In DLFM 2020
On Local Keys, Modulations, and Tonicizations

On Local Keys, Modulations, and Tonicizations

A dataset and methodology for the evaluation of changes of key
PDF Code Dataset Slides Video DOI
November 2019 In DLFM 2019
Key-Finding Based on a Hidden Markov Model and Key Profiles

Key-Finding Based on a Hidden Markov Model and Key Profiles

A new key detection algorithm that works in the symbolic and audio domain, furthermore, it is able to output local and global keys
PDF Code Slides DOI
September 2018 In DLFM 2018
Encoding Matters

Encoding Matters

Examples of encoding discrepancies that have been introduced either during the encoding of the symbolic music files or during the translation of the original file into other symbolic formats.
PDF Code Slides Video DOI

Recent Publications

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Data Quality Matters: Iterative Corrections on a Corpus of Mendelssohn String Quartets and Implications for MIR Analysis

A report on four successive corrections of OMR-generated scores and implications for four MIR tasks.
PDF Poster ISMIR Website
Data Quality Matters: Iterative Corrections on a Corpus of Mendelssohn String Quartets and Implications for MIR Analysis

Harmonic Reductions As a Strategy for Creative Data Augmentation

A preliminary experiment on harmonic reductions as a data augmentation strategy in tonal MIR tasks
PDF Poster ISMIR Website
Harmonic Reductions As a Strategy for Creative Data Augmentation

On Local Keys, Modulations, and Tonicizations

A dataset and methodology for the evaluation of changes of key
PDF Code Dataset Slides Video DOI
On Local Keys, Modulations, and Tonicizations

Harmalysis: A Language for the Annotation of Roman Numerals in Symbolic Music Representations

A grammar for encoding roman numeral analysis annotations within the lyrics of a symbolic music representation
PDF Code Project Slides Video
Harmalysis: A Language for the Annotation of Roman Numerals in Symbolic Music Representations

Do-Re-Myth: An Ear Training Game

Do-Re-Myth is an ear training game developed by Yuval Adler and Néstor Nápoles López, funded through a CIRMMT Student Award in 2019.
Code Project
Do-Re-Myth: An Ear Training Game

Key-Finding Based on a Hidden Markov Model and Key Profiles

A new key detection algorithm that works in the symbolic and audio domain, furthermore, it is able to output local and global keys
PDF Code Slides DOI
Key-Finding Based on a Hidden Markov Model and Key Profiles

The Effects of Translation Between Symbolic Music Formats: A Case Study with Humdrum, Lilypond, MEI, and MusicXML

What happens when you translate between different symbolic music formats?
PDF Code Poster
The Effects of Translation Between Symbolic Music Formats: A Case Study with Humdrum, Lilypond, MEI, and MusicXML

Musical Tic-Tac-Toe

A music-based game mechanic based where players compete to complete cadences.
Musical Tic-Tac-Toe

Dandelot - Reading Music as a Game

Dandelot is a computer game that trains your skills for reading music in the treble, bass, and alto clefs.
Video
Dandelot - Reading Music as a Game

Encoding Matters

Examples of encoding discrepancies that have been introduced either during the encoding of the symbolic music files or during the translation of the original file into other symbolic formats.
PDF Code Slides Video DOI
Encoding Matters

Projects

Barberpole Phasing and Flanging Illusions

MATLAB implementation of a barberpole phasing and flanging illusion discussed in Esqueda et al. (2015).

Boss DS-1

Implementation of the Boss DS-1 distortion pedal model presented by Yeh et al. (2007) in DaFx.

Brahms Op.118 No.2

A short analytical essay on Brahms Intermezzo Op.118 No.2.

HMM for Key Detection

Design and implementation of a symbolic key detection model.

Inharmonicity

A classical guitar piece synthesized with varying degrees of inharmonicity.

Melodic Tension Experiment

A short experiment on melodic tension.

Musical Tic-Tac-Toe

A turn-based game mechanic about musical cadences and chords.

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