APRIL CHAO MA

Multilingual professional with proven success communicating project status updates and engaging partners in effective relationships. Focused employee actively involved in data analytics and requirements gathering.

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Project 1: Computational Creativity - Music Generation with GANs

Duration: Three months

Technologies Used: Python, PyTorch,TensorFlow,GAN

• Build models for symbolic multi-track music generation under the framework of generative adversarial networks.
• Train the models with Lakh Pianoroll Dataset in an unsupervised approach.
• Apply the models to generate piano-rolls of five tracks: bass,drums,guitar,piano and strings.
• Evaluate the generated system in terms of the outputs, the creative autonomy, the higher-level issue and deep learning metrics.

Project 2: Music and Audio Programming - Synth Filter

Duration: One month

Technologies Used: C++, Bela Kit

• Create a digital implementation of a common type of filter used in applications, the resonant low-pass filter.
• Implementing an emulation of the classic Moog VCF based on a simplified digital model.

Project 3: Music and Audio Programming - Drum Machine

Duration: One month

Technologies Used: C++, Bela Kit

• Create a digital audio system which plays sequenced drum loops with various tempos and styles, depending on input from several sensors.

Project 4: Music and Audio Programming - Pitch Detection

Duration: One month

Technologies Used: C++, Bela Kit

• Design and implement a pitch detection in the autocorrelation function using Bela Platform.
• Build a browser-based graphical user-interface to present the calculated spectrum and show the detection result.

Project 5: Music Informatics - Beat Tracking

Duration: One month

Technologies Used: Python, Music Informatics

• Implement and test a beat tracking system for ballroom dance music.
• Extend the RNN-based beat tracking system in order to jointly track the whole metrical cycle, including beats and downbeats.

Project 6: Music Informatics - Audio Identification

Duration: One month

Technologies Used: Python, Music Informatics

• Implement and test an audio identification system.
• Use fingerprinting and reproducible hash tokens from every audio file.