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Laboratory for Machine Learning in the Domain of Music
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Welcome to the Gamme lab at the Univeristy of Montreal Department of Computer Science and Operations Research. Gamme is an acronyme for Groupe Apprentissage Machine en Musique. This is French for Music and Machine Learning Group, but it's more clever because gamme also means musical scale.

 
PS: French version coming soon!

What is Gamme?

Gamme exists at the intersection of two existing labs, LISA and BRAMS. To understand Gamme, it's best to first understand something about LISA and BRAMS.

The LISA Machine Learning Lab at Université de Montréal.
The LISA lab carries out research in Machine Learning. LISA faculty members include Yoshua Bengio, Balasz Kegl and Douglas Eck. Areas of interest include dimensionality reduction, boosting and sequence learning. Applications include data mining, drug discovery, vision, music and finance. See the LISA lab page for more.
 

The BRAMS Group
BRAMS (Brain, Music and Sound) is a research unit affiliated with the University of Montreal, McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute. BRAMS is devoted to the study of music cognition with a focus on neuroscience. BRAMS exists to address the following questions: Why is the brain musical? How does the structure and function of the nervous system allow us to listen to, remember, play, and respond to music? How are these functions related to others such as understanding speech? How do these processes change during development, and how do they break down in disease?

Thus (see Eqn. 1) Gamme is not so much a lab on its own as it is the intersection of these two other labs. All Gamme researchers are member of LISA. All Gamme members will also benefit from the facilities at BRAMS when it is up and running Winter 2005 / Spring 2006.

{Gamme} = {BRAMS} ∩ {LISA}