Ramires, António (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)
Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio ...
Zinemanas Frieti, Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-10-20)
Deep-learning models have revolutionized state-of-the-art technologies in many research areas, but their black-box structure makes it difficult to understand their inner workings and the rationale ...
Favory, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
Capturing sounds on a recording medium to enable their preservation and reproduction started to be possible during the industrial revolution of the 19th century, originally achieved through mechanic and ...