StuffonmyMind

SpectralOli: I made a Livecoding tool

As a student of sound, Spectrograms have become a very good friend, A bit daunting at first but slowly it has warmed up to me and transforms into a painting of the sound, slowly whispering secrets ...

Training a DDSP model for Carnatic Vocals

This post is about the custom DDSP model I trained from scratch using Carnatic vocals from KritiSamhita: Carnatic Tonic Recognition Dataset using 280 recordings where each recording is a 20 second ...

Vipasanna Pt 2 Happened

Looking back at my first 10 day course in the intense summer heat of Kanchipuram, I realize how a lot of it was just driven by ego. I did not focus on the practice and simply wanted to prove to the...

Higher order SVD, Geometry & Hyperbolic Spaces

It is officially the end of my internship at Deezer and I am back to a Sunny and extremely humid Barcelona. Locked in my room with the fan running at insane speed I am going to reminisce about the ...

On Recommendation systems

For the past couple months at Deezer I have gotten to explore a fair bit of Recommender systems, I have had some strong opinions about them in the past and it was quite interesting to see how they ...

Expect Typos 🚧

It’s the fourth day of Canicule in Paris and my thoughts have officially melted with my brain. A month down, doing research I have gotten into the habit of writing down my thoughts and a lot of the...

Thinking for a living.

A case for Research (excerpts from a braindump) What is my definition of a good days work? I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Engineering has a tangible definition, You push out a new f...

Research Internship at Deezer 💜

I have been very excited about this one for quite some time! Back in December I gave an interview to intern with the Research team at Deezer, I was really anxious initially, as I am an engineer wit...

Livecoding with an Adversarial AI Agent

Hey guy Usually, when people talk about AI agents in music, they’re talking about copilots that finish your sentences and with livecoding maybe they make sure your chords aren’t trash? I say that’...

I play sets now 🎶

I went back to Bangalore in April! I met a lot of my besties and with help from livecode.blr we even managed to organize an algorave. We ran over time and I did not get to play but my friends took ...