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From: Ge Wang Date: July 24, 2006 11:33:45 PM GMT+02:00 To: music-ir@listes.ircam.fr Subject: [MUSIC-IR] [ANN] Introducing TAPESTREA

Dear all,

We'd like to introduce TAPESTREA, a system for analysis/transforming/synthesis of environmental sounds:

http://taps.cs.princeton.edu/

The initial public release (most likely GPL) will take place in the near future. In the meantime, there are papers, audio examples, and a video delineating the ideas and features of Taps. For anyone interested, there is also a mailing list where future releases will be announced and where discussions can take place. This is joint work between Ananya Misra (project leader), Perry Cook, myself, and others. We invite you to take a look/listen and please let us know of any questions and suggestions.

Thanks!!!

Various components of the system shall be presented this year at SIGGRAPH (sketch), DAFx, and ICMC.

Best, Ananya, Perry, Ge

--- from the bakery:

TAPESTREA (or taps) is a unified framework for analyzing, transforming, and synthesizing complex environmental sounds. Given one or more recordings, it provides well-defined means to: (1) identify points of interest in the sound and extract them into reusable templates, (2) transform sound components independently of the background and/or other events, (3) continually resynthesize the background texture in a perceptually convincing manner, (4) controllably place event templates over backgrounds, using a novel graphical user interface and/or ChucK scripts, and (5) leverage similarity based retrieval to locate other interesting sound components. Taps makes it possible to completely transform a sound scene, dynamically generate sound scenes of unlimited length, and construct new scenes or compositions by combining elements from different recordings.

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