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And, of course, what would a workshop on Romani music be *without* Romani music?
We wrapped up the first evening in the “Za školou” café, where our dear guests prepared a set of Romani songs for us. The concert was opened to the public, and the venue was soon filled with a crowd of dancing people.
That brilliant concert transitioned into a fantastic jam session that lasted until the morning hours…
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Our #Hackathon continued the next day.
We reconvened to review yesterday’s pilot data, polish it, and get it ready for analysis.
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For guitar-based data, we needed to tackle mainly the abundant short notes – data noise occurring likely as a result of imperfect onboard #midi processing.
We managed to fix this with Midi transform functions in #LogicPro.
Accordion was already giving us usable data, so we only worked on separating the midi channels for trebles and basis.
(Kudos to Šimon Libřický, our Logic Pro Expert!)
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Overall, in about 27 hours, we tackled various research problems and challenges.
Some we managed to solve, others we just named (which is equally important for future work).
And yes, there may be another #Hackathon for data analysis as soon as the data is collected (perhaps in late 2027).
If you are interested, just keep an eye on the #RomaniChords hashtag or sign up for e-mail updates on the project’s website (=> http://romanichords.eu/)
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I wish to thank warmly all Hackathon participants for their valuable insights and intellectual inputs, namely Martin Gális, Jan Hajič, Šimon Libřický, Tomáš Klapka, Jonatán Müller, Adam Pospíšil, German Angel Puerto, Ondřej Skovajsa and Ieva Weaver.
It was a genuine pleasure to work with you all!
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Thanks to #PragueMusicComputingGroup, whose activities greatly inspired this event to happen (I highly recommend checking their exciting and ever-growing portfolio => https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pmcg)
Thanks to the civic association #Gilora, which helped to organise such a memorable concert and which continues to do essential work for popularising #RomaniMusic (=>https://gilora.eu/)
Also, thank #AVCR for allowing us to use its premises and #ZaSkolou bar to host the concert!
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