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		<title>Spectralmind und Gracenote: Musikauswahl nach Stimmung</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spectralmind und Gracenote: Musikauswahl nach Stimmung Mit Prototyp einer Spotify-App zeigen die beiden Unternehmen auf der ISMIR die Zukunft der Navigation durch digitale Musiksammlungen Porto/Wien/Emeryville, 8. Oktober 2012. Spectralmind (http://www.spectralmind.com) und Gracenote (www.gracenote.com) geben auf der 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) in Porto, Portugal, einen Einblick,<a class="moretag" href="http://www.spectralmind.com/spectralmind-und-gracenote-musikauswahl-nach-stimmung/"> Read more...</a>]]></description>
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<h1>Spectralmind und Gracenote: Musikauswahl nach Stimmung</h1>
<p>Mit Prototyp einer Spotify-App zeigen die beiden Unternehmen auf der ISMIR die Zukunft der Navigation durch digitale Musiksammlungen</p>
<p><em>Porto/Wien/Emeryville, 8. Oktober 2012. Spectralmind (</em><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">http</a><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">://</a><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">www</a><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">.</a><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">spectralmind</a><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">.</a><a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">com</a><em>) und Gracenote (www.gracenote.com) geben auf der 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) in Porto, Portugal, einen Einblick, wie wir in Zukunft digitale Musik auswählen und hören könnten. Die beiden Unternehmen zeigen eine Demo-App für den Spotify-Player, der Musik für jeden Anwender personalisiert nach Stimmung und Geschmack darstellt. Die Navigation erfolgt intuitiv durch grafische Darstellung auf mehreren Ebenen – Listendarstellungen sind damit passé. Im zusätzlich verfügbaren „Discovery Mode“ der App wird der Musikkonsument auf eine Musikentdeckungsreise geschickt. Er bekommt nicht nur bereits bekannte Lieder zu hören, sondern Musik aus einem 18 Millionen Titel umfassenden Katalog vorgeschlagen – alles abgestimmt auf seinen individuellen Geschmack und seine Stimmung. Spectralmind macht mit der nun gezeigten Demo-App für Spotify nach einer Reihe von unter dem Brand „Sonarflow“ veröffentlichten Musik-Apps für iOS erstmals eine App für Notebook- und Desktop-Rechner.</em></p>
<p>Wenn Gracenote, Sony-Tochterunternehmen und weltgrößter Anbieter von Musik-Metadaten, und Spectralmind, führender Anbieter intuitiv-grafischer Medieninterfaces, zusammenarbeiten, bekommt man einen Einblick in die (nahe) Zukunft des Musikkonsums. Starre, willkürliche und in Listen gezwängte Musikeinteilung gehört der Vergangenheit an. Stattdessen wird die Musiksammlung des Nutzers mittels Software intelligent interpretiert und in persönliche, individuell gestaltete Bereiche gegliedert, die auf den emotionalen Musikhören viel näherliegenden Ebenen „Gefühl“ und „Stimmung“ basieren.</p>
<p>Die individualisierten Bezeichnungen der Musik-„Bubbles“ werden durch einen Algorithmus gebildet. Sie sind immer leicht verständlich sowie semantisch präzise und sinnvoll. Musik-Bubbles könnten beispielsweise als „Energetic Anxious Indie Dance“ oder „Arousing Groove Hip-Hop/Rap by male artist“ heißen. Die Interpretation der Stile ist sehr exakt und erfolgt auf Song-Ebene. Damit wird den unterschiedlichen Stilen einzelner Künstler Rechnung getragen – sie werden nicht pauschal in einen Stil-„Topf“ geworfen.</p>
<p>Die nach Stimmung angeordnete Musik wird nicht in Listen, sondern in verschiedenfarbigen Blasen, den „Bubbles“, dargestellt. Diese bestehen aus mehreren Ebenen, in die sich der Nutzer durch stufenloses Zoomen vertiefen kann. Auf jeder Ebene findet er mehr Information und immer weiter verfeinerte Musik-Empfehlungen – jeweils immer auf Basis der initial gewünschten Musikstimmung. Die Songs können natürlich auf jeder Ebene im Player abgespielt werden.</p>
<p><strong>Musikreise im „Discovery Mode“</strong></p>
<p>Aktiviert der Nutzer den „Entdeckungs“-Modus, den Discovery Mode der App, begibt er sich auf eine Musikentdeckungsreise auf Basis seiner favorisierten Musik-Empfindung. Dabei holt die App Musik aus dem Millionen von Titeln umfassenden Spotify-Katalog – ein beinahe unerschöpfliches Reservoire an neuer, vom Hörer bisher unentdeckter Musik.</p>
<p>„Die bunten Bubbles, die auf jeder Ebene immer mehr Details eröffnen, sind perfekt für die Auswahl von Musik nach Gefühl und Stimmung geeignet“, sagt Thomas Lidy, CEO von Spectralmind. „Durch die visuell ansprechende Darstellung wird der Umgang mit Musik wieder emotionaler, intuitiver, spielerischer – wir bieten damit einen völlig ungekannten Zugang zum Musikhören und -entdecken. Die bekannten Listendarstellungen sind im Zeitalter von Touch-Screens und Musik aus der Cloud anachronistisch.“</p>
<p>Gracenote liefert dabei die dahinterstehende Technologie zur Gruppierung von Musik nach Stimmungen und Geschmäckern.</p>
<p>Anmerkung: Bei der von Spectralmind und Gracenote auf der ISMIR gezeigten Spotify-App handelt es sich um einen funktionierenden Prototypen, der einen Einblick in die aktuellen technischen und visuellen Möglichkeiten des Musikkonsums gibt. Wann die Anwendung verfügbar sein wird, ist derzeit noch offen.</p>
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<p><strong>About Spectralmind:</strong></p>
<p>Spectralmind is a technology leader in the field of media intelligence. Spectralmind offers fully fledged media discovery solutions in both consumer and professional markets. The solution stands out by its unique combination of intuitive visual interfaces and advanced content discovery technologies to provide the latest in media discovery and content recommendation. The company&#8217;s proprietary audio matching engine is capable of suggesting similar music titles based on a song’s acoustic content and a user&#8217;s preferences. The technology is used for media discovery in a wide range of domains, such as music and video portals, smartphone and tablet apps and professional media solutions.</p>
<p>The company’s vision is to revolutionize the media discovery space through its unique combination of intelligent content discovery and visual user experience.</p>
<p><strong>About Gracenote</strong></p>
<p>A pioneer in digital media, Gracenote, Inc. provides music and video content and technologies to the world’s hottest entertainment products and brands. The company’s partners in the entertainment community include major music publishers and labels, prominent independents and movie studios and television networks. A wholly owned, independent subsidiary of the Sony Corporation of America (SCA), Gracenote has offices in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Seoul, and Taipei with worldwide headquarters in Emeryville, California. For more information, follow us at @GracenoteTweets and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/PoweredbyGracenote">www.facebook.com/PoweredbyGracenote</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Spectralmind im Internet: </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.spectralmind.com/">http://www.spectralmind.com/</a></span></p>
<p><strong>Sonarflow App: http://www.sonarflow.com</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sonarflow auf Facebook: </strong>http://www.facebook.com/Sonarflow</p>
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		<title>Music Visualization as the Content Interface</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franz Jachim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the history of mobile music, content discovery has always been a challenge. Music stores represent a special kind of information overload. Exploring the depth of a super-sized content catalog, given the limited screen size of a mobile device, is a bit like doing the weekly shopping while looking through a matchbox<a class="moretag" href="http://www.spectralmind.com/music-visualization-as-the-content-interface/"> Read more...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>In the history of mobile music, content discovery has always been a challenge. Music stores represent a special kind of information overload. Exploring the depth of a super-sized content catalog, given the limited screen size of a mobile device, is a bit like doing the weekly shopping while looking through a matchbox cover.</h4>
<h4>Already in the days of the ringtone craze, music distributors thought of methods to improve the content exploration experience on small screens, hoping to create a discovery convenience that ultimately adds to the stickiness of the mobile storefront and that stimulates higher consumption. Since then, a flurry of content discovery approaches have been put in place.</h4>
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<h4>Here&#8217;s a quick overview of some of the main discovery methods:</h4>
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<h4>In the beginning was the <strong>browsing portal</strong>. Drop-off rates of more than 50% per menu level, even in popularity-based menu structures invalidated this model. The battle for main page presence was decided shortly after in favor of access categories like &#8220;new&#8221; (aka &#8220;novelties&#8221; or &#8220;latest additions&#8221;),  &#8221;most wanted&#8221; (aka &#8220;charts&#8221;) combined with the display of lists of noteworthy, editorially selected albums or tracks.</h4>
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<h4><strong>Personalized storefronts</strong>. The idea is to rearrange a mobile storefront according to a user&#8217;s previous browsing history, assuming that the historic session would be indicative of the user&#8217;s preferences. Users appreciate personalization, but want popular content at other times.</h4>
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<h4><strong>Discovery through search</strong>. Valid idea, but only if the user knows exactly what to search for.</h4>
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<h4><strong>Recommendation engines</strong>. An attempt to infer a user&#8217;s music preference algorithmically from his/her past purchases, followed by suggestions of music bought by other users with similar preferences. Alternatively, recommendations are derived from human classification of content as the basis for the suggestion of matching titles. Such recommender systems have a permanent place in today&#8217;s music storefronts.</h4>
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<h4><strong>Social sharing and communities</strong>. This idea picks up the concept of &#8220;following&#8221; (another user and his/her purchases or music plays) or the sharing of playlists and their proliferation through social networks.</h4>
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<h4>What we find in today&#8217;s music stores is a best-of-breed combination of all of the above. These are tried and tested methods. Still, we believe music discovery needs an innovative push. Music services are increasingly similar. They offer more or less the same content at the same price. They even look similar in terms of their user interfaces and they provide comparable user experiences. In short: music distribution needs differentiators to avoid commoditization.</h4>
<h4>Here at Spectralmind, we believe in data visualization as the new frontier of music discovery. Data visualization is an art, which attempts to turn even very big data sets into visual patterns, structures and elements, in order to make the data readable and understandable. There is no doubt that music represents an enormous body of data. The leading digital music distributors pride themselves on managing catalog sizes in the range of 15-20 million tracks. Visualization methods can repackage such volumes into easily accessible formats.</h4>
<h4>Our approach goes beyond the static visualization of data. In <a href="http://www.sonarflow.com/">sonarflow</a>, our visual music browser, graphical catalog visualization is the interface to navigate, operate and explore vast arrays of musical content and to expose music recommendations in a spacial and gestural environment.</h4>
<h4>This interface is capable of embracing core user needs for content discovery:</h4>
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<h4>browsing through large stocks of content in an intuitive and seamless way</h4>
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<h4>discovery through serendipitous expedition, ready to encounter music of unexpected relevance</h4>
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<h4>personalization through playlist creation</h4>
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<h4>social sharing</h4>
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<h4>So hey, if you are in music distribution, don&#8217;t fall into the commodity trap. Get in touch, we would love to show you our approach.</h4>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franz Jachim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Searching music offside of the mainstream can be tedious. Recently i fell for a particular jazz piano genre, called &#8220;Harlem Stride Piano&#8221; while listening to a radio broadcast. Stride piano developed in the 1920s and 1930s in New York as an advancement from Ragtime. It is characterized by a rhythmic<a class="moretag" href="http://www.spectralmind.com/search-ain%c2%b4t-misbehavin%c2%b4/"> Read more...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Searching music offside of the mainstream can be tedious. Recently i fell for a particular jazz piano genre, called &#8220;Harlem Stride Piano&#8221; while listening to a radio broadcast. Stride piano developed in the 1920s and 1930s in New York as an advancement from Ragtime. It is characterized by a rhythmic left hand play, where the pianist alternates a bass note or octave on the first and third beat with chords on the second and fourth beat, while the right hand plays the melody line.  This causes the left hand to leap great distances on the keyboard, often at neck-break speed. Back then, pianists like Fats Waller, James P. Johnson or Eubie Blake were famous stride virtuosos.</h4>
<h4><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1jDyT2T_YFA" frameborder="0" width="480" height="360"></iframe><br />
Louis Mazetier introduces harlem stride piano</h4>
<h4>Today, only a few pianists are capable to play stride, and I was curious to find out about contemporary &#8221;Harlem Stride Piano&#8221; interpreters and recordings.</h4>
<h4>The textual search for &#8220;Harlem Stride Piano&#8221; in iTunes led to zero results. Even in the advanced search of iTunes, you can only search for artists and interpreters, title- or track names, but not for genres. A search just for &#8220;stride piano&#8221; brought up one album, fortunately carrying both terms in its title. Similar, Spotify´s search for &#8220;Harlem Stride Piano&#8221; did not match anything, whereas a search for &#8220;stride piano&#8221; returned a few albums because of the use of the terms &#8220;piano&#8221; and &#8220;stride&#8221; in their titles or tracks.</h4>
<h4>Still unsatisfied, i continued the search for contemporary stride players in Google, YouTube and Wikipedia to find out about artists like Louis Mazetier, Günther Straub or Bernd Lhotzky. Knowing their names finally helped me to find the desired tunes in iTunes and Spotify.</h4>
<h4>This little research clearly depicts the limits of text based music search. It´s results depend largely on the coincidental presence of the chosen search terms in the title or artist name. If you have nothing but a tune, search is often impossible. What´s missing is search for music based on the sounds of a sample track.</h4>
<h4>While chasing contemporary &#8220;Harlem Stride Piano&#8221; records through Spectralmind´s audio intelligence platform, I certainly would have used Fats Wallers &#8220;Ain´t Misbehavin“. For sure, a <a href="http://www.spectralmind.com/platform/search-by-sound/" target="_blank">sound-similarity search </a>would have brought up more and better results in far less time.</h4>
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		<title>Sensory Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franz Jachim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we search for things, we use all of our senses. We look around for orientation, we feel for the keys in our pocket, we smell the scent of food in a restaurant, we listen for our kids playing in the garden. Our senses help us to discover what we<a class="moretag" href="http://www.spectralmind.com/sensory-search-2/"> Read more...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>When we search for things, we use all of our senses. We look around for orientation, we feel for the keys in our pocket, we smell the scent of food in a restaurant, we listen for our kids playing in the garden. Our senses help us to discover what we are looking for and they provide us with rich impressions, which we can match against our preferences, desires and needs.</h4>
<h4>In comparison to such sensual searching in real life, searching for something on a computer is a poor experience. Search as we know it is limited to entering textual terms into a form, hoping for a result that is straightforward enough to get what we need. This works reasonably well with all things written. Computerized search is mainly search for written stuff.</h4>
<h4><img class="wp-image-666 alignleft" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="search" src="http://www.spectralmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/search-300x229.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="229" />But how do you search for something unwritten, like an image, a color, or a song? Search engines would require us to describe these things through words, using a language, forcing us into conventions of search terms and search operators. But how do you describe a piece of music within the narrow confines of a search engine’s syntax? How do you express these deeply subjective impressions a song leaves behind in your mind? What is not described in words, is hard to find. What can’t be described in words, remains hidden.</h4>
<h4>This problem is the baseline of what Spectralmind does: searching, finding and discovering music in addition to and beyond what can be expressed in words. As a result, Spectralmind brings seeing and hearing, the visual and acoustic senses, back into the digital search and discovery of music.</h4>
<h4>You&#8217;ve made it to this blog and we are happy to have you here with us. We would love to see you come back from time to time to learn more about Spectralmind, the way we approach music over and above bare tunes. Music is a carrier of rich and universal information, which we believe we can unleash through our technology, creativity and passion to give it the attention, it deserves.</h4>
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