[CM] SchemeMosaic update

[Iain Duncan]

That sounds very cool, I will check this out over the holidays. Thanks for
sharing!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:53 PM David O'Toole <deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> More fun results! I upgraded the snippet matching procedure to use a
> weighted combination of spectral centroid distance, spectral peaks
> distance, and tempo distance. The results are becoming much more coherent.
> I have the beginnings of an emacs-based interactive looper UI as well, so
> basically this could become an improvisational rhythm composer. Here are
> the sounds: http://xelf.me/resource-55.mp3
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:34 PM David O'Toole <deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Happy Holidays everyone!
>>
>> It's been an amazing adventure. I now have a basic corpus-based musical
>> concatenative synthesis system written in S7 Scheme on top of Snd's audio
>> tools. It analyzes a bunch of input files, splits them into tiny FLAC
>> fragments sliced configurably on the beats, and writes the analysis data
>> for each song (with all the slices) in its own file. Later you can load any
>> selection of these data files, and run metadata searches to find matching
>> slices. Only the slices that you actually end up choosing get loaded, so
>> the searches themselves are very fast. Right now I've been feeding it dance
>> and hip-hop music and doing matches based on minimizing distance between
>> the loudest spectral peaks in each chunk. Here are some results:
>> http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic-2020-collection-1.mp3 Most of these use a
>> chopped-and-screwed backing track (also done with Mosaic) and matching
>> segments of other songs to them.
>>
>> The next step is to work more on my interactive looper so that one can
>> "jam" modifying the loop as you go.
>>
>> The homepage is http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic.html
>>
>> After the success of this year's Emacsconf 2020, I've started the EMSIG
>> (Emacs Multimedia Special Interest Group) covering such tools as Snd,
>> Ecasound, EMMS, Midi, etc. you would be welcome to visit the irc channel
>> #emsig on freenode or email me if you are interested.
>>
>> Thanks everyone (especially Bill!) for your help in solving little
>> stumbling blocks on the way.
>>
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