3 papers
cs.MM2026
MIDI-LLaMA: An Instruction-Following Multimodal LLM for Symbolic Music Understanding
Meng Yang, Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano +2
Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLM) for audio music have demonstrated strong capabilities in music understanding, yet symbolic music, a fundamental represent…
cs.SD2025
Exploring the Feasibility of LLMs for Automated Music Emotion Annotation
Meng Yang, Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano +1
Current approaches to music emotion annotation remain heavily reliant on manual labelling, a process that imposes significant resource and labour burdens, severely limiting the sca…
cs.HC2024
Exploring Real-Time Music-to-Image Systems for Creative Inspiration in Music Creation
Meng Yang, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack
This paper presents a study on the use of a real-time music-to-image system as a mechanism to support and inspire musicians during their creative process. The system takes MIDI mes…