technology

Extracting audio from visual information

Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.

Piano en zang recital met live music following

Op zaterdag 23 maart 2013 organiseert SampleSumo bij Piano's Maene een uniek evenement, waarbij piano, zang en technologie één geheel vormen.

Our music following technology in action

These past weeks, SampleSumo's music following technology has been used in two public events featuring Kimiko Ishizaka's performance of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations: one in a live concert setting, and the other in a radio broadcast setting.

Sound recognition at GDC 2012 in San Francisco

This week, we are in San Francisco for the Game Development Conference 2012, where we are showcasing our Percussive Sound Recognition technology (we're at booth #48 at GDC Play).

Score following and Music Hack Day Barcelona

At the end of last week, Bram was in Barcelona for Music Hack Day: a two days event focused on music technology hacking (web, software, hardware, art, ...) We launched our MeloTranscript web service API, and also connected up our music following technology to the MuseScore score editing software.

R&D project accepted for funding by IWT

Great news today: our R&D project "smart audio processing for interactive multimedia" was accepted for funding by the Flemish government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT).

This means we will receive financial support (next to our own sources), but it also means that our business ideas and R&D plans were screened and found to be innovative and worthwhile enough by the most important institute for science and technology in Flanders. No need to say we are very pleased with this acknowledgement ;-)

Using music analysis to capture musician's performing style

Celemony releases Melodyne DNA

So Celemony finally released their DNA technology to a wider audience (beta version for existing customers). It took a little longer than originally announced, but who cares for such great technology. Congrats to the Celemony team!

Just found the time to actually sit through their demo videos.