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Music Technology and Sound Studies

Music Technology and Sound Studies is a research topic within Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and application of interactive evolutionary music systems and instruments, combining human evaluation with EC optimization. It encompasses topics such as music generation, digital musical instruments, gesture recognition, machine learning, sound synthesis, and the intersection of art and technology in musical performance.

  • Interactive Evolutionary Computation
  • Music Generation
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Digital Musical Instruments
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Machine Learning
  • Sound Synthesis
  • Musical Performance
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Acoustic Ecology
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Music Technology and Sound Studies

Which countries lead Music Technology and Sound Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (955 and 707 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 955 works
  2. 2 China 707 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 422 works
  4. 4 Japan 308 works
  5. 5 India 287 works
  6. 6 France 278 works
  7. 7 Germany 236 works
  8. 8 Italy 191 works
  9. 9 Canada 145 works
  10. 10 Brazil 139 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 26.0%China: 19.3%United Kingdom: 11.5%Japan: 8.4%6 others listed: 34.8%26%largest
United States955 · 26.0%China707 · 19.3%United Kingdom422 · 11.5%Japan308 · 8.4%6 others listed1,277 · 34.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Music Technology and Sound Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Music Technology and Sound Studies research, followed by Queen Mary University of London and McGill University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 107 works
  2. 2 Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  3. 3 McGill UniversityCanada 28 works
  4. 4 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 26 works
  5. 5 California State University, FresnoUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 20 works
  8. 8 Brigham Young UniversityUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Transylvania University of BrașovRomania 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Music Technology and Sound Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Music Technology and Sound Studies include Yoshua Bengio, Jeremy Grimshaw and Andrew Zisserman.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  3. 3 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
  4. 4 Michael S. Lawrence United States 216k citations
  5. 5 Trevor J. Darrell United States 206k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Music Technology and Sound Studies?

The most cited paper in Music Technology and Sound Studies is "librosa: Audio and Music Signal Analysis in Python" (Brian McFee, Colin Raffel, Dawen Liang et al., 2015), with 3,077 citations. Next come "Musical genre classification of audio signals" (2,829) and "Opensmile" (2,654).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 librosa: Audio and Music Signal Analysis in Python Brian McFee, Colin Raffel, Dawen Liang et al. · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences Conference paperOpen access 2015 3,077
2 Musical genre classification of audio signals George Tzanetakis, Patrick D. Cook · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing Jul 2002 2,829
3 Opensmile Florian Eyben, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Wolfgang Schuller Conference paperOpen access 25 Oct 2010 2,654
4 A simple model of feedback oscillator noise spectrum David B. Leeson · Proceedings of the IEEE 1966 2,439
5 Dynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress, and Future Outlook Mahmoud I. Hussein, Michael Joseph Leamy, Massimo Ruzzene · Applied Mechanics Reviews Open access 20 Feb 2014 1,721
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Where is Music Technology and Sound Studies research done?

The largest centres of Music Technology and Sound Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fresno.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 131 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 125 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 124 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 105 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 57 works
  6. 6 MontrealCanada 53 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 46 works
  9. 9 MilanItaly 34 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FresnoUS · 22.2 works56×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Music Technology and Sound Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Music Technology and Sound Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Queen Mary University of London, Politecnico di Milano and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Korea Advanced Insti…Politecnico di MilanoQueen Mary Universit…University of Trento
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 70.719.5%18.4×36 -21.9%
2Politecnico di MilanoItaly 69.729.0%6.0×20 +245.8%
3Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 65.438.5%6.0×13 +35.2%
4University of TrentoItaly 61.317.8%14.3×17 +304.3%
5McGill UniversityCanada 59.88.5%6.2×28 +8.9%
6National University of SingaporeSingapore 59.037.4%1.8×10 +44.7%
7Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 58.726.6%8.6×16 -7.6%
8University of California San DiegoUnited States 58.415.5%3.4×15 +26.8%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 57.029.0%1.5×16 +169.1%
10KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 56.56.9%8.4×14 +31.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Music Technology and Sound Studies, country by country

Is Music Technology and Sound Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Music Technology and Sound Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Music Technology and Sound Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Music Technology and Sound Studies0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Music Technology and Sound Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting10%20%Music Technology and Sound Studies10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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