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[1 Jul 2011 | No Comment | 353 views]
The Curse of the Drum Machine - including The KLF and the 120 bpm crunch

Another week has passed, and I’ve been working on some cool stuff with the help of Mark Levy: figuring out the history of rhythmic regularity and tempo in the charts. It’s all described in the new Last.fm blog post.…

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[23 Jun 2011 | No Comment | 406 views]
Second part of my Anatomy of the UK Charts is online

This time, I dug a bit deeper into the audio to unearth a specific audio characteristic: the simplicity of punk music. Check it out at the Last.fm blog. I was astonished we could actually “rank” artists into a list…

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[16 Jun 2011 | One Comment | 550 views]
The Anatomy of the UK Charts - some of my research on the Last.fm blog

I’m enjoying my work at Last.fm, and we’ve just decided it’s cool enough to make it to a Last.fm blog post. In fact, it’s the start of a short series of blog post, in which I write about the…

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[18 Mai 2011 | No Comment | 913 views]
Help us at Last.fm improve our music visualisation Audio Flowers!

I’m very pleased to announce the first openly accessible outcome to my work at Last.fm: Audio Flowers. We’ve analysed audio of about 17,000 tracks with our new complexity detector, then visualised the outcome as “Audio Flowers”. If you want…

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[22 Mrz 2011 | No Comment | 232 views]
TempEst temperament estimation is online

Despite being niche research so far, the estimation of harpsichord temperament may be useful for micro-tuning estimation in general, e.g. for guitars, organs, and others. For harpsichord temperament, the estimation web service TempEst is online and operational now, so…

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[8 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 159 views]

Just one little Python script that converts a comma-separated file to binary HTK format, then outputs to stdout. I found it incredible that this does not seem to exist yet in Python.

Available at the SoundSoftware website.

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[7 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 135 views]

Hello world! Yesterday I posted a little new video on YouTube and told Twitter, but not my very own website, so I thought I might do that today. Many may find it boring, but if you’re sufficiently geeky then…

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[3 Dez 2010 | No Comment | 294 views]

It was a rather small step for us, but may increase the fun of playing with Chordino by a lot: in addition to the chord estimate, you can now choose a note output that returns the pitch classes of the…

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[25 Nov 2010 | No Comment | 105 views]

I got the domains http://www.chordino.net and http://www.chordino.com … who knows what I’ll do with them. For now they are forwarding to the isophonics site.

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[17 Nov 2010 | No Comment | 86 views]

I just made a few changes to my website: it’s now running on faster machines at my web space provider (for more clicking fun), it’s got a Twitter button in the top menue (so people can follow me more easily),…