Postdoctoral researcher · HfM Weimar

Computational musicology grounded in creative practice

I work in computational musicology and research software, drawing on composition and electroacoustic practice to build open tools for analysis, research, and teaching.

Portrait of Egor Polyakov

Research at HfM Weimar

At the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, I serve as scientific co-lead of the DFG project Development of a Comprehensive Cloud-Based Toolbox for Music Score Analysis (2025–2028) with project head Prof. Dr. Martin Pfleiderer. My role centres on scientific conception, research coordination, and technical delivery. We are building collaborative annotation, statistical modelling, and pattern-discovery workflows for MEI and MusicXML corpora through Jupyter4NFDI.

Creative, technical, and analytical work

Each stage informs the next: composition led to electronic systems and production, which now shape how I design computational methods.

  1. 01 Composition

    Classical and electroacoustic composition, fixed media, live electronics, and multichannel work

  2. 02 Systems

    Max/MSP, OpenMusic, synthesis, hardware, and interactive analysis–synthesis workflows

  3. 03 Realisation

    Studio teaching and the artistic-technical realisation of concerts, installations, and productions

  4. 04 Computation

    Python, music encoding, reproducible audio and score analysis, and machine learning

  5. 05 Current research

    Practice-informed computational musicology, open research software, infrastructure, and team leadership

Selected projects

All projects

CAMAT

Symbolic repertoire analysis with MEI/MusicXML, co-developed with Prof. Dr. Martin Pfleiderer and Christon-Ragavan Nadar.

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Recent highlights

  • 2026 — Accepted workshop, Computergestützte Musikanalyse in der Cloud, GfM annual conference, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2026 — Accepted talk, CAMAT_v2: Cloud-Based Tools for Collaborative Music Score Analysis, ICCCM26, Würzburg
  • 2026 — Presented Beyond the Black Box…, InMusic26, Aalborg
  • 2026 — Two chapters published in Routledge Innovation in Music volumes

Research, teaching, and collaboration

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