soundsieve [v1.0]
Here’s a screenshot from the thing I’ve been working on for most of the past week:
I was getting it ready to show sponsors this week at the Media Lab. People responded really well, and it was lots of fun talking to people and hearing what they had to say. I already have a long list of things I want to do with it over the summer (starting with making it an iTunes plugin).
Here’s some text from the handout:
soundsieve is a music visualizer that takes the intrinsic qualities of a musical piece – pitch, time, and timbre – and makes their patterns readily apparent in a visual manner. For example, you can quickly pick out repeating themes, chords, and complexity from the pictures and video.
It’s a new, informative way to look at your music. It allows you to explore the audio structure of any song, and will be a new way to interact with your whole music library, enabling you to navigate the entire space of musical sound.
The current form of soundsieve is a music browser (like iTunes), that lets you see visual representations of any MP3 you own. You select a song, and see a set of pictures of the piece’s audio structure. Then you can choose to play the song, and see real-time visualizations accompanying the piece.
I posted some early documentation on the project, but I’ll have to go through and update it soon.
2 Comments
- jenny replied:
i’m totally waitin’ for your plug-in, man. it’s gonna be supersweet!
but, until then, take a looksy at this ipod related thing i saw online:
http://www.prefixmag.com/blog/audio-feedback-on-ipod-menus/5037May 10th, 2007 at 11:37 am. Permalink.
- Gordon replied:
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your demo last week – I was the tall guy making ill-informed comparisons with Pandora ;-)
It looked awesome and I just wished I could take home a copy!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:35 am. Permalink.
