121 research outputs found
Preserving today for tomorrow: A case study of an archive of Interactive Music Installations
This work presents the problems addressed
and the first results obtained by a project aimed at
the preservation of Interactive Music Installations (IMI).
Preservation requires that besides all the necessary components
for the (re)production of a performance, also the
knowledge about these components is kept, so that the
original process can be repeated at any given time. This
work proposes a multilevel approach for the preservation
of IMI. As case studies, the Pinocchio Square (installed in
EXPO 2002) and the Il Caos delle Sfere are considered
The impact of thermal treatment on the mechanical properties of magnetic tapes : tensile test
Conference paper
A systemic approach to the preservation of audio documents: methodology and software tools
This paper presents a methodology for the preservation of audio documents, the operational protocol that acts as the methodology, and an original open source software system that supports and automatizes several tasks along the process. The methodology is presented in the light of the ethical debate that has been challenging the international archival community for the last thirty years. The operational protocol reflects the methodological principles adopted by the authors, and its effectiveness is based on the results obtained in recent research projects involving some of the finest audio archives in Europe. Some recommendations are given for the rerecording process, aimed at minimizing the information loss and at quantifying the unintentional alterations introduced by the technical equipment. Finally, the paper introduces an original software system that guides and supports the preservation staff along the process, reducing the processing timing, automatizing tasks, minimizing errors, and using information hiding strategies to ease the cognitive load. Currently the software system is in use in several international archives
A case for reproduciblity in MIR : replication of 'a highly robust audio fingerprinting system'
This article makes a case for reproducibility in MIR research. Claims made in many MIR publications are hard to verify due to the fact that (i) often only a textual description is made available and code remains unpublished - leaving many implementation issues uncovered; (ii) copyrights on music limit the sharing datasets; and (iii) incentives to put effort into reproducible research -- publishing and documenting code and specifics on data -- is lacking.
In this article the problems around reproducibility are illustrated by replicating a MIR work. The system and evaluation described in 'A Highly Robust Audio Fingerprinting System' is replicated as closely as possible. The replication is done with several goals in mind: to describe difficulties in replicating the work and subsequently reflect on guidelines around reproducible research. Added contributions are the verification of the reported work, a publicly available implementation and an evaluation method that is reproducible
Preserving today for tomorrow: a case study of an archive of Interactive Music Installations
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and the first results obtained by a project aimed at
the preservation of Interactive Music Installations (IMI).
Preservation requires that besides all the necessary components
for the (re)production of a performance, also the
knowledge about these components is kept, so that the
original process can be repeated at any given time. This
work proposes a multilevel approach for the preservation
of IMI. As case studies, the Pinocchio Square (installed in
EXPO 2002) and the Il Caos delle Sfere are considered
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