Week 1 - Introduction

Class Notes:

• Introduction to Scientific computing in Python
• Music Information Retrieval

Ipython Notebooks:

• Python Basics
• Audio File I/O

Homework 1

Due Friday January 17th

Install the required tools in your system, and produce a histogram showing the length of audio files in your audio collection.

Reading

For Monday January 13th

Li, T., & Li, L. (2012). Chapter 1: Music Data Mining : An Introduction. In Music Data Mining (pp. 3–42).

(This text is available online from the UCSB library when connected inside campus or from the campus VPN)