Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
John Hicks’s African music research and recordings
Lagos-based researcher and recording artist John Hicks presents his work on machine learning for African popular music alongside his songs, videos, and research links.
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- Music-information-retrieval researchers studying African popular music
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- The corpus contains 1,061 human-annotated 30-second clips across ten genres, with 91 acoustic descriptors per clip.
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The research section says labels come from listener judgement rather than inherited metadata, and lists both acoustic descriptors and aligned Mel-spectrograms as data features. It names classical and convolutional baselines, while the About section identifies Hicks’s University of Lagos research affiliation and his role as a teaching assistant in data science and machine learning.
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