ALL PROJECTS / 2016

The Infinite Drum Machine

Year: 2016

Client: Google Creative Lab, New York, NY

Technology: Librosa, t-SNE, audio feature extraction, interactive web audio, JavaScript

Reference Links

External Links

"The Infinite Drum Machine" on Experiments with Google "Tool: The Infinite Drum Machine" by Jim Frankel for Dr. James Frankel "The Infinite Drum Machine" on Experiments with Google

Description

Machine-learning interface for exploring thousands of everyday sounds as a playable map of related audio.

Built with Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and Google Creative Lab, the experiment used audio analysis to cluster similar sounds, creating an alternative browser for percussion samples and a tool for improvisation.