Sound has always mattered to me in a personal way. After serving in the military, I came back with partial hearing loss — and that experience made me appreciate how much of life travels through audio. This notebook is my attempt to understand it computationally.
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is the field that sits at the intersection of signal processing, machine learning, and musicology. The goal is to teach machines to understand sound the way humans do — to recognize genre, detect tempo, separate instruments, and more. These chapters represent my journey to understand it step by step.