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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Please Speak Into the Plant – The Visual Microphone from MIT
An astonishing piece of research from the folks at MIT CSAIL was announced for SIGGRAPH 2014. The paper from Davis et al (Abe Davis and Michael Rubinstein and Neal Wadhwa and Gautham Mysore and Fredo Durand and William T. Freeman), entitled The Visual Microphone – Passive Recovery of Sound From Video, shows how they were
Continue reading »CCRMA Summer Workshops
The folks at CCRMA have released the timetable for their 2014 Summer Workshops Series. There’s a great mix of programs available. I’m especially interested in the Music Information Retrieval workshop since I have worked on similar projects in the past, but would be excited to learn the latest techniques and approaches in this field. MIR
Continue reading »Music Tech Summit and Music Hack Day SF
It’s been a busy weekend for Music Tech in the Bay Area. Yesterday saw the Music Tech Summit in San Francisco and Saturday and Sunday held the Music Hack Day. There is an awesome full list of hacks on their wiki page and the Soundcloud Developers Blog has a good review of their Music Hack
Continue reading »Music Business Seminar- “Recession Proof”
I’m off to Berkeley this morning to attend the Music Business Seminar held by the California Lawyers for the Arts. They’ve put on a full schedule of events including a keynote address from Erik Metzger, patent attorney for Intel, and panelists including speakers from Pandora and other digital music ventures. Sessions include DIY Marketing, Make
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