German Music Analysis Engine Able to Compare and Sort Music into Genre
September 28, 2013
An article on Semanticweb.com titled German Engineers Developing a Semantic Music Analysis Engine reports on a project being undertaken in Germany that will allow for greater understanding of patterns and influences in music. The article takes Shakira as an example, explaining that the Franz Liszt Music Conservatory’s compilation will enable them to see the direct influence of traditional music on her pop music. In her case, a great amount of influence comes from Colombian slave music during the colonial-era. The article explains,
“For the past two years, Brazilian music ethnologists have been working together with other experts from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa on a semantic search engine that automatically recognises basic musical attributes such as tone and rhythm. ‘We are creating something that is independent of the global industry. The current search engines are only capable of finding identical musical pieces from huge databases,’ explained project worker Philip Kueppers. ‘We synthesize basic elements from rhythm in order to deliver general musical information to users.’
With more of an emphasis on music as opposed to artists themselves, there can be little to no confusion as to what category or genre a piece of music falls into. Ultimately the system is able to compare pieces of music in a way that until now was not possible. Of course this musical technology begs us to ask the question, would it work for business English?
Chelsea Kerwin, September 28, 2013
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