The Sónar+D Innovation Challenge (SIC), co-organized by the
Music Technology Group de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra is the platform for rethinking the future of creative technology, based on the open collaboration between companies and talented creators from different fields. Companies propose challenges to creators and collaborate to produce disruptive prototypes to present them at Sónar+D. This years’ challenge, with a ‘datathon’ format, has been posed by the music analytics platform
FuturePulse, an EU-funded project that draws on data from the most popular social media services, streaming services, music monitoring services, and, combined with machine learning and advanced analytics, predicts trends in the growth of artists, genres, playlists and more.
Over the past two weeks, two teams of successful applicants have been creating models and solutions for identifying early popularity trends in music (artist, songs and genres ), and for predicting how trends will develop or evolve, in specific demographics or influence groups.
The proposals were:
Team A
Forbidden Territories. Using music analytics to explore censorship in music on a global level.
Alberto González Pulido
Andres Ferraro
Gema FB Martin
Rita Geleta
Sylvain Le Groux
Team B
See you on the Dancefloor. A tool for music venues to scout and book online events.
Ananda Mele
Cristian Prigoana
Daniel Rosero
Livia Fioretti
Lorenzo Porcaro
The teams presented their findings in a live online event which you can
re-watch now.
Following the presentation and deliberation by the judges, we’re pleased to announce that the team with the most innovative solution and that will recive the cash prize is Team B for ‘See you on the Dancefloor’.
Congratulations to both teams for their outstanding work and thanks to Music Technology Group of the Universitat de Pompeu Fabra for their support.
For more information on FuturePulse visit
www.futurepulse.eu