Music and Audio Computing Lab

The Music and Audio Computing Lab (MACLab) is a music research group in the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST. Our mission is to improve the way people enjoy, play, and create music through technology. We are particularly interested in "Music AI" that can understand music, represent its meanings in a human-friendly manner, and generate new musical content to assist human creativity. The following are the main research areas and broad research topics that we are working on:

  • Music Informational Retrieval
  • Audio Signal Processing
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Music and Audio
  • Human-AI Interaction for Music
  • Computational Analysis and Modeling of Music Performance
  • Sound Synthesis and Digital Audio Effects

For prospective students

If you are interested in applying to KAIST and joining our group, please read this FAQ article for Korean Students or International Students.

News

  • [Dec-22-2023] Jaeran, Jongsoo, Carolina, and Hyeyoon successfully defended their MS theses! Congratulations!
  • [Dec-14-2023] 7 papers have been accepted for ICASSP 2024!
  • [Dec-12-2023] Sangeon, Taegyun, and Taejun successfully defended their PhD theses! Congratulations!
  • [Dec-01-2023] We organize the International Symposium on AI and Music Performance (ISAIMP 2023) at KAIST [link].
  • [Nov-05-2023] Seungheon's ISMIR paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at ISMIR 2023! Congratulations!
  • [Oct-22-2023] Taejun won the Best Student Paper at WASPAA 2023! Congratulations! [link]
  • [Oct-10-2023] Our AI piano team participated in the 20th anniversary concert of Daejeon Art Center with flute player Jasmin Choi (최나경) [link].
  • [Sep-22-2023] Hayeon and Yonghyun participate in the concert "Four Seasons 2050" project at KAIST [link].
  • [Aug-23-2023] Three KAIST Labs (MACLab, MubLab, and AirisLab) visit Yamaha HQ to particiapte the KAIST-Yamaha joint workshop [link].
  • [Aug-21/22-2023] Prof. Nam gives talks at the University of Tsukuba (Prof. Hiroko Terasawa's lab) and AIST (Dr. Masataka Goto's group).
  • [Aug-11-2023] We invite Hanoi Hantrakul (Bytedance) to KAIST. He gives a talk titled "Transcultural Machine Learning in Music" [link].
  • [Jul-31-2023] Seungheon receives Kim Young Han Global Scholarship [link].
  • [Jul-20-2023] We participate the Music and Audio Workshop 2023 [link].
  • [Jun-28-2023] Our AI Piano Team showcased an AI-based performance system with world-renowned soprano Sumi Jo (조수미) [link].
  • [Jun-21-2023] Two papers have been accepted for ISMIR 2023!
  • [Jun-19-2023] Prof. Nam gives keynote speech at YAMAHA Global R&D Meetup 2023 [link]
  • [May-09-2023] Prof. Nam has been appointed as an associate editor of of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing [link].
  • [May-03-2023] Younghyun and Hyeyoon had a piano recital at the KAIST Auditorium [link].

Address: 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon (34141)

N25 #3236, KAIST, South Korea