The Future of Audio Branding

ABC_DJ was a multi-national EU research and development project composed of seven companies and institutions from five European countries, headed by the Audio Communication Group of Berlin’s renown… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 4 years ago

Audio Examples Online

Our ABC_DJ project ended 31st December 2018 but we will continue to release news and results here. In the section Audio Examples you now find listening examples that show the functionality and resu… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

HearDis! & ABC_Dj at Sound Stockholm 2018

HearDis! has been invited to talk at SoundStockholm – the conference that this November will tackle the growing audio consumption, particularly how people are influenced by music and how bran… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

Recap: The New Shape of Audio Branding

Paris is always a special city yet it was extra special on the recent ABC_DJ workshop during ISMIR conference. At IRCAM’s premises, we performed the very first live demo of the advanced tools… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

C/O Pop Convention

              As part of the upcoming C/O Pop Convention, HearDis! will partake to the special Music Unchained edition on the Future of Synch, untapped opportunit… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

Audio Branding Workshop

On September 20th, HearDis! and Sixième Son will host “The New Shape of Audio Branding” a half day workshop at IRCAM in Paris.  The workshop will tackle the current challenges to bring Audio Brandi… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

ABC_DJ: Turning Brand Values into Music

We’re glad to announce that we have created a powerful algorithm to predict brand-fit music relying solely on the audio content of the songs themselves, rather than on manually assigned tags.… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

ABC_DJ @Sound and Music Computing, Cyprus

          We’re glad to announce that our publication “Heuristic Algorithm for DJ Cue Point Estimation” will be part at the Sound and Music Computing Conf… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

ABC_DJ at Music Information Retrieval Berlin Meetup

On June 25th 2018 we present our knowledge-based music branding recommender system at MIR Berlin Meetup.  The ABC_DJ recommender system requirements significantly differ from traditional music reco… | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 5 years ago

“Signal Processing and AI: Changing the World”

Glad to announce the release of the paper “Fast and adaptive blind audio source separation using recursive Levenberg-Marquardt synchrosqueezing” by IRCAM‘s Dominique Fourer and Geoffroy Peeters during the highly acclaimed International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal P … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 6 years ago

“Bridging the Semantic Gap”

Dr. Jochen Steffens from Technische Universität Berlin talked about ”Bridging the Semantic Gap” at German Conference of Acoustics DAGA in Munich, Germany. Citation: Steffens, J., Lepa, S., Herzog, M., Schönrock, A., Egermann, H. (2018) | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 6 years ago

Save the date: “The New Shape of Audio Branding” Workshop

The ISMIR conference is held annually and is the world’s leading conference for Music Information Retrieval (MIR). It will take place in Paris, France, from September 23-27, 2018. This years ISMIR is a join organization between Télécom ParisTech and IRCAM. We’re happy to announce … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 6 years ago

Paper for ISMIR conference

We’re happy to announce that our joint publication “High-Level Chord Features Extracted from Audio can Predict Perceive Musical Expression” was accepted at this years ISMIR conference. The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference will take place at Na … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 6 years ago

Instore Music – The Impact of Music at the Point Of Sale

Glad to announce that ABC_DJ’s creative lead Robin Hofmann from HearDis! wrote a guest article about ABC_DJ and the Impact of Music at the Point Of Sale in AIT Journal (Architecture, Interior, Technical Installation). Download article here. Available in EN & GER. | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 6 years ago

Report on Collecting Schemes Europe

So far there have been no reports dealing with the management of IP rights from the point of view of audio branding and in-store music. Thus, we have conducted surveys among the Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) with competences in in-store music, with the objective to… … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 6 years ago

Sónar and Sónar+D: VIP-Delegate Passes at a Reduced Price

Sónar and Sónar+D: VIP-Delegate Passes at a Reduced PriceSónar and Sónar+D: VIP-Delegate Passes at a Reduced PriceIn 2017 the Audio Communication Group of TUB and the ABC_DJ H2020 EU project are again official partners of the Sónar Festival and the Sónar+D Conference in Barcelona … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 7 years ago

German Acoustics Conference DAGA

From March 6-9th, the German Acoustics Conference DAGA will take place in Kiel, Germany. At this conference, Dr. Jochen Steffens from TU Berlin will present the ABC_DJ-project and sum up findings of the first project year, especially regarding the development of the General Music … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 7 years ago

Towards Automatic Music Recommendation For Audio Branding Scenarios

The consortium members of the Technical University of Berlin composed a paper on the impact of music from the perspective of music branding in our everyday lives and, in this context, the potential of automated music recommendation systems. In: Extended Abstracts for the Late-Bre … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 7 years ago

ABC_DJ in Markenartikel magazine

We’re happy to announce that Andreas Schönrock and Daniel Artur Schindler wrote an article about ABC_DJ in the Markenartikel magazine (Edition 08/2016). Download the article or order your print copy here, in German language only. | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 7 years ago

Music Branding Expert Workshop 2016: A successful and inspiring event

On April 11th 2016, nine recognized international experts from the audio branding, marketing and music publishing sectors from all over Europe got together at the recording studio of the Audio Communication Group at Technische Universität Berlin to conduct the ABC_DJ Music Brandi … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 7 years ago

VIP Delegate Passes at Reduced Price – Discover Sónar and Sónar+D

The ABC_DJ project and the Audio Communitation Group at TU Berlin are now Official Partners of the Sónar Festival. Sónar is opening its doors for students of the TU Berlin and everybody interested in our project to explore innovative technologies and find networking opportunities … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 8 years ago

Music Branding Expert Workshop 2016: Call for Participants

We are seeking participants for the Music Branding Expert Workshop 2016 in Berlin, Germany. This one-day event will gather European experts from the areas of audio branding, marketing practice/research and music publishing. The aim of the meeting is to collectively develop an Eng … | Continue reading


@abcdj.eu | 8 years ago