Paul Lamere of The Echonest (and musicmachinery.com and one of Audiograins’ favorite music hackers) has produced a new web app at the Berlin Music Hack Day. Where is the Drama takes any song input recognized by Spotify and analyses it to find the 30 seconds or so of highest drama, defined as the portion of
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Teaching Your Computer What ‘Warmer’ Sounds Like
Sound Engineers and musicians will rejoice with the release of the SAFE project, or Semantic Audio Feature Extraction. The vague descriptions often used to get a particular sound in a mix, are being crowdsourced and applied to the set of VST plugins available for download from the SAFE project website. Users can download the plugin
Continue reading »Friday Fun – 99 Red Balloons played on Red Balloons
Musician Andrew Huang enjoys a good musical (or ice bucket) challenge. Here he is playing Nena’s 99 Red Balloons on a Red Balloon, with the help of some clever sampling and editing!
Continue reading »Serendipity on Spotify
Media Artist in Residence at Spotify, Kyle McDonald has created a visualization using the Spotify Web API to show when two users click to play the same song simultaneously. Serendipity 2014 A map showing ephemeral connections created by simultaneous listens: every second a few people hit “play” on the same song, at the same time.
Continue reading »Echo Nest API and Remix SDK
I finally went ahead and registered as a developer for TheEchoNest API. It’s easy to do and only takes about a minute after which you can immediately send requests. The query format is pretty straightforward and can be sent as POST or GET (not always allowed as GET though) requests, with response such as the
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