Sound Mixtures: A musician’s delight, an engineer’s nightmare!

Thursday, July 30th Paris Smaragdis presents a talk entitled: Sound Mixtures: A musician’s delight, an engineer’s nightmare!

2PM, Dartmouth College, Room: Wilson 219
Abstract:
Musicians have long embraced polyphony all the way back to the middle ages.  Engineers, even today, are still struggling to come to terms with it.  Traditional audio signal processing has primarily focused on [...]

Max/MSP Real-Time Music IR [soundspotter~]

The new version of soundspotter for Max/MSP is finally working.

As an example, here is a 5 minute recording made from a short audio clip (10s) ‘remixed’ in real time using cyclic matching-without-replacement (8 frames) over a shingle size of 4 frames matched to a triangle wave at 272Hz. Parameters are varied in real time to [...]

Music Search at the Scale of the Web: Tutorial at ISMIR 2009, Oct. 26th, Kobe, Japan

Tutorial AM 1 (10:00-13:00): MIR at the Scale of the Web
by Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research), and Michael Casey (Dartmouth College)
Abstract
In the last couple of years we have received access to music databases with millions of songs. This massive change in the amount of data available to researchers is changing the face of Music Information Retrieval. [...]

The Problem With Music

The Problem with Music: Modeling Distance Distributions of Large Music Collection.
Talk at Dartmouth Computer Science Colloquium
Wednesday 21st Januray 2009, Silsby Room 028 (*note location change*), Dartmouth College
Talk Slides
Abstract: Recently, a number of piano recordings by different artists were found in a classical music catalog that exhibited a striking resemblance to each other. Could this [...]