Noah Jaffe

Researcher, musicologist, and hardware/software engineer in Amsterdam.

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I am a PhD researcher and engineer building PHOTON, a non-invasive optical sensing platform for historical keyboard instruments. I am part of the Music Cognition Group, within the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. Within music information retrieval and audio, my work includes source separation, hyperinstruments, and perceptual evaluation of machine learning models.

Before beginning my PhD, I worked at Apple on the iPhone RF Design team and founded an internal classical music concert series for employees.

Through AmsterdamEarlyMusic.com, I produce concerts at Het Concertgebouw and maintain an calendar of early music events in Amsterdam. For collaborations or projects, reach me at my first name @ noahjaffe.org, or via klavecimbel.com.

Selected Publications

  1. WASPAA
    Musical Source Separation Bake-Off: Comparing Objective Metrics with Human Perception
    N. Jaffe and J. A. Burgoyne
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), Nov 2025
  2. NIME
    PHOTON: Non-Invasive Optical Tracking of Key-Lever Motion in Historical Keyboard Instruments
    Noah Jaffe and John Ashley Burgoyne
    In Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Jun 2026