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< Back Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST) In 2018, the Fourth Portal curated delivery of the £5m EPSRC FAST programme to the music industry at Abbey Road studios, demonstrating the very latest technologies for end-to-end music production and delivery. The videos that follow provide an overview of the programme and demonstrators developed. C4DM, Queen Mary, University of London 3 Mar 2024 The Fusing Audio and Semantic Technology (FAST) programme was presented to the music industry at Abbey Road Studios in 2018. Its mission was to demonstrate the very latest technologies to bear on the complete industry, end-to-end, producer-to-consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. https://vimeo.com/297989936 Background Music is probably the most pervasive of the performing arts, and perhaps, the most abused (think of your recent shopping trips!). It has tremendous power to influence our emotions, often subliminally. The advent of recording in the 19th Century made it possible to enjoy music at a time, and in a place, different from the performance. Compression, broadband and the ever-increasing capacity to aggregate large collections mean that the issues confronting music consumers have totally changed in nature: equally so for professionals, such as broadcasters (playlists for radio, music for documentaries, etc.) and those at the creative heart of the process: musicians, sound engineers and producers. The recorded music industry has grappled unsuccessfully with digital technology and the rate of adoption of new technologies has been slow, ironically, mostly in fear of piracy and loss of revenue. Given the social and economic importance of music, it is vital that the industry's crisis is averted and its decline reversed. Simple semantics and metadata are already helping (for example in recommendation and sharing services) but this is just the beginning. The next-generation semantic technologies that are the focus of this proposal have the power to exact the turnaround that music (and other content industries) needs but this should be established via a fundamental and principled exploration of how semantic technologies underpin music throughout the value chain. The proposal brought the latest technologies to bear on the complete industry, end-to-end, producer to consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. In this project we will address 3 premises: (i) that Semantic Web technologies should be deployed throughout the content value chain from producer to consumer; (ii) that advanced signal processing should be employed in the content production phases to extract "pure" features of perceptual significance and represent these in standard vocabularies; (iii) that this combination of semantic technologies and content-derived metadata leads to advantages (and new products and services) at many points in the value chain, from recording studio to end-user (listener) devices and applications. https://vimeo.com/297974486 Partners The project will work with partners from industry - BBC R&D, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Omnifone) as well as internationally - the International Audio Labs, a joint initiative of the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen and the local university, and the Internet Archive, one of the world's major on-line libraries. We will engage with other universities in the UK supported by a partnership fund and via the BBC Audio Research Partnership. https://vimeo.com/297981584 Present Impact This programme is fostering new ways for professionals to work with music in the studio and for consumers to engage in their homes. It will support new business models that emphasise the whole experience of musical involvement, and discover ways to monetise the metadata as well as the essential content. The technologies to be researched support new ways of learning (about and playing) music as well as new ways of teaching and performing. And because the project will encompass vast quantities of music data and metadata, from heterogeneous sources, and will stress test emerging principles of big data, distributed intelligence and future generation web, it also addresses key questions of wide significance to EPSRC's ICT Programme, particularly relating to Intelligent Information Systems and Working Together. https://vimeo.com/297970119 https://www.semanticaudio.ac.uk/software/ For more: Meta Tags, Algorithm, Linked Data, AI, Design, Audio, Standards Previous Next

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The monthly meetup for computing enthusiasts to exchange ideas, kit and talk all things computing. Homage to the Homebrew Computer Club 2 < Back 3 August 2023 The monthly meetup for computing enthusiasts to exchange ideas, kit and talk all things computing. Previous Next About the event Monthly Event The Homebrew Computer Club (formed on 5 March 1975) was where Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates first met! Some of the most innovative minds in coding, engineering and design attended those monthly events. What they created we still use today. In homage to that incredible gathering, the Fourth Portal has a more modest event, bringing together those interested in computers in all their forms, from coding to 8-bit sound to circuit boards to AI and machine learning - in fact, anything computing. Second Meeting We will build upon our first meeting and see where it takes us. Attendees are welcome to bring along kit they can carry or get in touch if there is something bigger to display. Gravesend resident and computer collector, Mark Gladwell will bring three more of his computers to the August meetup. The original IBM PC (5150) Macintosh SE MSX. Come along as you please and relax. There evening is free of charge and there is no expectation Bring along anything you wish to show, demonstrate, exchange or sell If there is a demand, we might show a computer-inspired movie No age minimum or limit, everyone is invited No experience or understanding of math or how computers work is required. More on the Homebrew Computing Club below Wikipedia The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist group in Menlo Park, California, which met from March 1975 to December 1986. The club had an influential role in the development of the microcomputer revolution and the rise of that aspect of the Silicon Valley information technology industrial complex. Several high-profile hackers and computer entrepreneurs emerged from its ranks, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the founders of Apple Computer. With its newsletter and monthly meetings promoting an open exchange of ideas, the club has been described as "the crucible for an entire industry" as it pertains to personal computing. [1] Read More Homage to the Homebrew Computer Club takes place at the Fourth Portal Lab, Gravesend, Kent. This event series is ongoing. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

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