Anna Xambó @ ICLC 2019

Live Coding with Crowdsourced Sounds & A Drum Machine. ICLC 2019. Public School of Music and Dance María Dolores Pradera. Madrid, Spain. January 19, 2019.

Setup for the live coding session by Anna Xambó at the closing concert of ICLC 2019.

Program notes

The access to crowdsourced digital sound content is becoming a valuable resource for music creation and particularly music performance. However, finding and retrieving relevant sounds in performance leads to challenges, such as finding suitable sounds in real time and using them in a meaningful musical way. These challenges can be approached using music information retrieval (MIR) techniques. In this session, the self-built system MIRLC (Music Information Retrieval Live Coding), a SuperCollider extension, will be used to access audio content from the online Creative Commons (CC) sound database Freesound. The use of high-level MIR methods is possible (e.g., query by pitch or rhythmic cues). This live audio stream of soundscapes from crowdsourced audio material will be combined with a vintage Roland MC-09 used as a drum machine.

This performance was part of the closing concert of ICLC 2019 at the Public School of Music and Dance María Dolores Pradera on Friday Januanry 18, 18.00-23.00.

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Technical setup

Technical setup of the live coding session at ICLC 2019.

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Credits

This performance was part of the closing concert of ICLC 2019 at the Public School of Music and Dance María Dolores Pradera on Friday January 18, 18.00-23.00.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Jesús Jara López, Andrés Pérez López, Juan Carlos Blancas (and the Sonikas team) for making this closing concert possible!

Sound Credit list (Source: Freesound.org):