Adv Projects in Computer Music

Dear friends,

For my PhD thesis, I'm working on a computer system that learns to associate music with appropriate and descriptive words .  The machine listens to some music and reads the corresponding text description.  After doing this for long enough, our clever little computer learns what words ought to be used to describe new music or, if you give it some words, it can play you songs that match your description.

While I have lots of music, I'm lacking the corresponding text descriptions.  This is where you come in.  I've built a website where you can listen to songs and fill out a form that records what you hear in the music.  It involves clicking some boxes and buttons - no typing - and it's very straight-forward.  Every click that you make is recorded and then I can use your descriptions to train my computer system.

So I ask you, please;

1) Go to http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/cal/friends/
2) Register with a username (e.g. DougTurnbull)
3) Answer a few questions about your musical background
4) Listen to some music!

Once you've registered, you can log on again at any time and pick up where you left off.  If you can annotate even 2 or 3 songs, it would be a great help to me and you might discover some cool new tunes.  If you have any more questions about what it all means, how it really works and what, exactly, I do... please get in touch.

Thanks,
Doug Turnbull & Luke Barrington

ps - Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested in helping out.

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Douglas Turnbull
Graduate Student
Computer Science
UC San Diego