Recent Advances in Music Processing

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Recent Advances in Music Processing

Publisher: Emerald Publishing

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026

Introduction

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way music is created, analyzed, and understood. Music AI has become a focal topic within the broader AI research landscape. Emerging technologies — ranging from music generation and music understanding to multimodal processing — are driving paradigm shifts in both the music industry and music research.

This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers from diverse academic disciplines and industry to present the latest developments in music processing.

List of Topic Areas

Manuscripts are invited on themes including, but not limited to:

1. Music signal processing

2. Symbolic and audio music generation

3. Music information retrieval

4. Multimodal data processing with music

5. Music processing with large language models (LLMs)

6. Human-centered music processing

7. Culture-specific music processing

8. Datasets, evaluation, and reproducibility in music AI

9. Music AI and ethics

Guest Editors

Prof. Tetsuro Kitahara Nihon University, Japan 📧 kitahara.tetsuro@nihon-u.ac.jp

Prof. Eita Nakamura Kyushu University, Japan 📧 nakamura@inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Prof. Jun-You Wang National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan 📧 junyou.wang@mirlab.org

Prof. Li Su Academia Sinica, Taiwan 📧 lisu@iis.sinica.edu.tw

Key Deadlines

⏰ Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026

Submission & Review Process

All submitted manuscripts will undergo a formal single-blind peer-review process. The review timeline is as follows:

• 📋 First-round decision target: 5 weeks

• ✏️ Revision period: 2 weeks

• ⏱️ Total review duration: 8 to 12 weeks (depending on one or two revision rounds)

Accepted papers will be published open access immediately upon acceptance. Once all papers are published, they will be compiled into an online book featuring an editorial by the guest editorial team.

⚠️ Papers not accepted within the publication window will be transferred to the journal's regular track for further consideration.

For detailed submission instructions, visit the official journal submission page.

⚠️ Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere while under review for this journal.

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