{"id":162,"date":"2012-04-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/live-blogging-supercollider-symposiu\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:23:19","slug":"live-blogging-supercollider-symposiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/live-blogging-supercollider-symposiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Blogging the SuperCollider Symposium: Freesound Quark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerard Roma<\/p>\n<p>Uses the Freesound Website. www.freesound.org. The sounds are Creative Commons.&nbsp; The website has more than 150,000 sounds from around 4000 users.&nbsp; Most users only download sounds.&nbsp; All sounds are moderated &#8211; listened to by a human.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always charmed when a presenter shows a supercollider window rather than using a slide programme.&nbsp; The syntax highlighting of their talk notes is especially good.<\/p>\n<p>Google gave them a grant and they re-wrote the site.&nbsp; They have a feature extraction library to analyse the sounds.<\/p>\n<p>There is a new freesound quark based on their API.&nbsp; The quark will give you the sound, the sound&#8217;s preview, the tags, the spectrogram, the signal descriptors from freesound&#8217;s feature extraction.<\/p>\n<p>You need to get an API key to use the quark. The quark will search stuff for you according to filters. You can find a sound that&#8217;s glitchy with a particular duration.&nbsp; You can search by similarity as well.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis frames of the sound are kept in a separate file, but can be loaded into an IdentityDictionary. <\/p>\n<p>This quark could be really interesting if you want to do stuff with freesound, you don&#8217;t need to do your own MIR and you might be able to make cool pieces in real time.<\/p>\n<h4>\nQuestions<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Are people doing cool things with this outside of SuperCollider?&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li>Will the API upload to freesound? No.&nbsp; The API needs some more authentication stuff put in. Also the moderation creates a delay.<\/li>\n<li>Zlatko wants to know about how they know if sounds are copyrighted.&nbsp; The moderators try to figure it out and respond to complaints.<\/li>\n<li>Can the same API key be used across multiple computers? Yes.<\/li>\n<li>Does the metadata include the licence terms and the user who uploaded it? Yes<\/li>\n<li>Is there a GUI? No, this is a new quark, not the old one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerard Roma Uses the Freesound Website. www.freesound.org. The sounds are Creative Commons.&nbsp; The website has more than 150,000 sounds from around 4000 users.&nbsp; Most users only download sounds.&nbsp; All sounds are moderated &#8211; listened to by a human. I&#8217;m always charmed when a presenter shows a supercollider window rather than using a slide programme.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/live-blogging-supercollider-symposiu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live Blogging the SuperCollider Symposium: Freesound Quark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,54,64],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-freesound","tag-live-blog","tag-supercollider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}