Semantic Descriptors To Help The Hunt For Music, ( Innovations-report)
Excerpts: You like a certain song and want to hear other tracks like it, but don't know how to find them? Ending the needle-in-a-haystack problem of searching for music on the Internet or even in your own hard drive is a new audio-based music information retrieval system. Currently under development by the SIMAC project, it is a major leap forward in the application of semantics to audio content, allowing songs to be described not just by artist, title and genre but by their actual musical properties such as rhythm, timbre, harmony, structure and instrumentation. This allows comparisons between songs to be made (...).Source: Semantic Descriptors To Help
Should this come to fruition, might there be stories in patterns -- regional patterns -- in music? How could we map this? And when?
