Janzen Calma

Music enthusiast and music annotator with 1–3 years of music experience and hands-on experience in music annotation through BeatPulse. Skilled in carefully listening to songs and identifying musical elements such as instruments, vocals, rhythm, groove, harmony, chords, key, playing style, production details, and overall musical characteristics. Experienced in creating clear, accurate, and natural music descriptions based on what is audibly present in a track.

Detail-oriented and comfortable working with structured annotation guidelines, quality standards, and repetitive listening tasks.

Music Annotator - BeatPulse - Remote

Music Annotation

• Annotate songs based on detailed musical characteristics and structured annotation guidelines.
• Identify and describe instruments used throughout different sections of a song and explain their musical roles.
• Analyze genre, era, tempo, rhythm, groove, harmony, chords, key, instrumentation, and playing style.
• Describe vocal characteristics including vocal type, tone, delivery, and expression.
• Identify lyrical themes and the overall emotional atmosphere of songs.
• Create natural, observation-based narrative descriptions that accurately reflect the audible content of each track.
• Pay close attention to musical details such as instrumental layers, transitions, rhythmic patterns, and changes between song sections.
• Maintain consistency between metadata, instrument identification, and narrative descriptions.
• Follow QA requirements and annotation standards while reviewing and improving submitted work.
• Work independently while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail across multiple tracks.

Diploma in Information Technology - Information Technology - STI — Systems Technology Institute