dr. John Ashley Burgoyne

John Ashley Burgoyne is an Assistant Professor in Computational Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and unit leader of the Language, Music, and Cognition unit at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. Cross-appointed in Musicology and Artificial Intelligence, he is interested in understanding musical behaviour at the audio level, using large-scale experiments and audio corpora. His McGill–Billboard corpus of time-aligned chord and structure transcriptions has served as a backbone for audio chord estimation techniques. His Hooked on Music project reached hundreds of thousands of participants in almost every country on Earth while collecting data to understand long-term musical memory. Currently, he is working through the Amsterdam Music Lab to understand what people are hearing – and what they are ignoring – while they stream music every day.

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How Predictable is the Eurovision Song Contest?

The Eurovision Song Contest has long been a popular basis for betting, and popular fan websites such as Eurovisionworld collate the books from about a dozen different online bookmakers to make predictions about who will win the contest. The success of these sites is mixed: although Eurovisionworld’s particular compilation of bookmakers had identified the winner correctly in only two out of the last five contests by the evening of the final (2015 and 2019), if we use more flexible criteria such as the Top 5, the same site has on average identified 4 out of 5 of the Top 5 correctly.

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Welcome to the Amsterdam Music Lab!

Welcome to the Amsterdam Music Lab, a space where you can learn about how you hear music and how your listening style compares to others, and where the music industry can test new ideas with the forefront of music cognition research.

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