Navigating Ontological Structures based on Feature Metadata Using the Semantic Music Player

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The Semantic Music Player: A Smart Mobile Player Based on Ontological Structures and Analytical Feature Metadata

Presented at the 2nd Web Audio Conference (WAC), April 4-6, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia.The Semantic Music Player is a cross-platform web and mobile app built with Ionic and the Web Audio API that explores new ways of playing back music on mobile devices, particularly indeterministic, context-dependent, and interactive ways. It is based on Dynamic Music Objects, a format that represents musical content and structure in an abstract way and makes it modifiable within definable constraints. For each Dynamic Music Object, the Semantic Music Player generates a custom graphical interface and enables appropriate user interface controls and mobile sensors based on its requirements. When the object is played back, the player takes spontaneous decisions based on the given structural information and the analytical data and reacts to sensor and user interface inputs. In this paper, we introduce the player and its underlying concepts and give some examples of the potentially infinite amount of use cases and musical results

"They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process

In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and how metadata is adapted to the specific needs of specific parts of the process. We find that there can be significant tensions between how reasoning is applied to metadata at different stages of production and that this can lead to overheads where metadata has to be either changed or created anew to make the process work. On the basis of these findings we articulate some of the potential solutions we are now examining. These centre in particular upon the notions of Digital/Dynamic Musical Objects and flexible metadata shells

Executable Music Documents

While good practices are emerging with respect to publication of data alongside research outputs, we argue that computational descriptions (e.g. scripts, software and workflows) should also be included so that research can be interpreted, reconstructed and recomputed. A research article—or Research Object—should then describe all the components associated with a piece of digital research, including the descriptions of code and algorithms, effectively comprising an executable document. Furthermore we observe that such a re-executable object can be re-run automatically. The Music Information Retrieval research community has established community infrastructure and practices which are amenable to this approach, providing a glimpse of a future Music Digital Library. These ideas raise a number of issues for Digital Libraries more generally