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Week9 - Sound and Music Description: Lectures

This document provides an overview of the topics and materials covered in Week 9 of the course, which focuses on sound and music description. The week includes lectures on extracting audio features using spectral analysis, describing sounds, music recordings, and collections. Demonstrations are provided on plugins for analyzing sound/music signals and advanced features of the Freesound database. Programming lectures cover using the Essentia library for audio description from Python and downloading collections from Freesound via its API. Students complete a peer-assessed assignment on clustering and classifying sounds from a collection using descriptors, as well as a quiz on the theory lectures.

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Week9 - Sound and Music Description: Lectures

This document provides an overview of the topics and materials covered in Week 9 of the course, which focuses on sound and music description. The week includes lectures on extracting audio features using spectral analysis, describing sounds, music recordings, and collections. Demonstrations are provided on plugins for analyzing sound/music signals and advanced features of the Freesound database. Programming lectures cover using the Essentia library for audio description from Python and downloading collections from Freesound via its API. Students complete a peer-assessed assignment on clustering and classifying sounds from a collection using descriptors, as well as a quiz on the theory lectures.

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Week9 - Sound and music description

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Topics covered: Extraction of audio features using spectral analysis methods;


describing sounds, sound collections, music recordings and music collections. Clustering
and classification of sounds. Demonstration of various plugins from SonicVisualiser to
describe sound and music signals and demonstration of some advance features of
freesound.org. Presentation of Essentia, a C++ library for sound and music description,
explaining how to use it from Python. Programming with the Freesound API in Python to
download sound collections and to study them.
Work to be done: 1 quiz, 1 peer assessed assignment.

Lectures
9T1 Theory lecture 1: Audio features (video + quiz) [30:21]
9T2 Theory lecture 2: Sound and music description (video + quiz)
[24:48]
9D1 Demo lecture 1: Sound descriptors (video) [14:27]
9D2 Demo lecture 2: Freesound (video) [20:28]
9P1 Programming lecture 1: Introduction to Essentia (video)
[25:43]
9P2 Programming lecture 2: Freesound API (video) [26:11]
Advanced Material (Theory)
Specific advanced references and topics

Assignments and Quizzes

Community Interaction

A9-Sound and music description: This is a

Useful forum topics for this week

peer assessed assignment in which you will


learn how to describe sounds within a sound

Lectures week 9: Questions/Discussion


Peer Assessment week 9:

collection. You will learn to use the


Freesound API to download sounds and their
descriptors. Then with the set of obtained

Questions/Discussion
Quiz 9: Questions/Discussion
Essentia: Installation issues, Questions

descriptors and by using a similarity measure,


you will cluster the sounds and also classify

and Discussions

them into predefined classes. No


programming needed.

A9 - Go to the assignment page

(Deadline 10-Dec-2014)
Deadline passed, cannot submit A9 any
more. Use the link below for the second run
A9-makeup. If you have submitted A9
already, you can use the link above to
evaluate your peers.

A second run of A9 is available for those who


could not submit A9 on time. It is a makeup
assignment. Those who have submitted A9 in
the first run need not have to submit it again.

(A9-makeup) Go to the
assignment page (Deadline 24Dec-2014)
Q9-Sound and music description: This quiz
covers the topics discussed in the theory
lectures of this week, which include the
extraction of audio features and the
description of sound and music collections by
using clustering and classification methods.

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