Matteo Spanio

I’m a PhD candidate in Brain, Mind and Computer Science at the University of Padua, based at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale. Between 2025 and 2026 I spent six months as a visiting PhD student at the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Three threads run through the work: recovering audio cultural heritage from degraded magnetic tape, as part of the IEEE 3302-2022 standard I help develop at MPAI; teaching generative models the correspondences between taste and sound; and asking what language models actually understand about music notation.

Alongside it I maintain TorchFX, an audio DSP library that runs on the GPU, and I play clarinet with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.