Introduction Music genres allow the categorization of music into broad groups of related songs for use in applications such as song recommender systems based on genre. Many existing songs are unlabeled, and new songs are constantly being released. While hand-labeling them all would be too tedious, classifying them by genre can fit them into categories for use in recommendation. Also, even if th...

In cities, trees are seen predominantly as entities that beautify streets, parks and gardens. Often they’re regarded obstacles to urban development, where their importance ecosystem health plays a secondary role economic growth. How can multispecies art offer new perspectives on crucial contributions life? Branching Songs is project with old in the Vancouver area, including ‘1308 Trees’, forest...