About music, copyrights, and the wonders of innovation in between

September 16, 2026

The policy of truth: A study on measuring how much AI is in a track

For 20 years, we’ve been turning our love of music into technology that helps make sense of what’s happening behind every song. And the industry keeps giving us many new things  [...]

March 13, 2026

First, video killed the radio star, and now AI is going after video: A study on detecting GenAI music in broadcast audio

A new paper from the UPF-BMAT Chair on AI and Music has been accepted to ICASSP 2026, which is one of the most prestigious international conferences dedicated to the intersection of signal  [...]

September 10, 2024

What to do when AI crashes into your party

On the 1st of August 2024, the EU AI Act, unanimously approved on May 21, 2024, came into effect, delivering the world’s first AI law which clearly calls for the need for AI companies [...]

July 11, 2024

Decoding voice cloning and recognition – an AI introspective

Ethical concerns emerge around the extent of manipulation and the privacy implications involved in the advancing use of voice data. The riddle we're tackling is whether the evolving use of  [...]

May 15, 2024

Partnering with Voice-Swap to establish a certification program to verify datasets used in AI music models

Ethical voice cloning platform Voice-Swap and BMAT have forged a groundbreaking partnership to establish a certification program for AI music models. The certification will harness the powe [...]

April 5, 2024

A super-brief introduction to Music AI for non-engineers and newbies alike

AI music is music that is composed, produced, or generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI-generated music platforms are like smart synthesisers that ma [...]

February 21, 2019

Music detection with deep music detector

Music detection, deep learning and our deep music detector. The definition of music is usually quite abstract, touching on the concepts of pitch, rhythm, and timbre. When we say that a soun [...]

March 22, 2018

Keep learning, deep learning

We gave Deep Learning the chance to challenge our classifier and identify what is music and what is not. You never know when you’ll close the loop. After a brief encounter with Neural Netwo [...]