Happy Birthday – March 2024
Reflecting on the First Year of the Music360 Horizon Europe Project
As Music360 completes its first year, it is a fitting time to pause, reflect, and celebrate the milestones achieved. This journey has been one of excitement, challenges, and above all, collaboration.
The heart of any Horizon Europe project lies in its pursuit of innovation. Over the past year, our team has been immersed in groundbreaking research, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and creativity. We have explored cutting-edge technology in the fields of music recognition, ecosystem modelling, and business methods to evaluate the value of music.
Our project has strongly fostered collaboration, resting on the diversity of expertise, perspectives, and experiences brought together by our consortium partners. Across geographical and sectoral borders, we have forged strong bonds, exchanged knowledge, and witnessed the power of collaboration in driving progress and fostering mutual understanding.
As we reflect on the past year, it is important to highlight our achievements and milestones, such as defining a framework to quantify and qualify the value of music, agreeing on an ontology for the value of music, designing the architecture of the project, modelling the Music and the National Music ecosystems, deploying a music usage data collection system, and building the first proprietary database for the project.
According to BMAT, partner in charge of the music monitoring aspect of the project: “receiving the first data from several Living Labs within the first year of the project has been a significant achievement, due to the challenge of reaching agreement with music users and deploying ad-hoc hardware where needed. The collaboration with the CMO partners has been key to reach this achievement!”.
The next two years of the project will be challenging, but the team is full of confidence and motivation to achieve all the expected objectives, building upon the foundations laid in the inaugural year. As the coordinator, Dr. Jaap Gordijn says: “Ahead of us lies much hard work, but also good times and great human interactions, and we are determined to make the most of both in our effort to improve the compensation and distribution of royalties through a fairer and more equitable system, to sustain a vibrant music ecosystem, and to preserve cultural heritage”.
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