INTERACTIVE AUDIO LAB

Headed by Prof. Bryan Pardo, the Interactive Audio Lab is in the Computer Science Department of Northwestern University. We develop new methods in Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Human Computer Interaction to make new tools for understanding and manipulating sound... We introduce VampNet, a masked acoustic token modeling approach to music audio generation. VampNet lets us sample coherent music from the model by applying a variety of masking approaches (called prompts) during inference. Prompting VampNet appropriately, enables music compression, inpainting, outpainting, continuation, and looping with variation (vamping). This makes VampNet a powerful music co-creation tool.