Portfolio Category: Audio/Music

SeFiRe is a tool for segmentation of field recordings and other audio recordings. It can label and segment an audio file into speech and music segments, or into five classes: speech, solo singing, choir singing, instrumental and bell chiming. SeFiRe offers a user-friendly interface for visualizing the audio and labelled classes and for manipulating the…

The goals of the project are to develop music information retrieval algorithms for folk music. The work is based on the Slovenian archive of folk music and dance culture "Ethnomuse", which gathers a large variety of multimedia materials, including audio, scores, videos, lyrics and textual metadata (including GIS locations). Music includes solo and choir singing,…

The goal of the EthnoMuse project is to build on the digital archive of the Ethnomusicological Institute of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and enable semantic integration of multimedia materials and development of multimedia applications. The long-term goal is to: preserve original and digital materials; optimize the process of collection and manipulation of multimedia materials (conversion…

The project's goal is to develop a web-based multimedia presentation of cultural heritage of Slovenian emigrants in different parts of the world and thus expose related materials gathered in the EthnoMuse multimedia archive of the Institute of Ethnomusicology. Its goal is also to establish and further relations to other aspects of promotion and protection of…

The goal of the project is to build electrified versions of folk instruments with simple off-the shelf electronic components like Raspberry-PI attached to various sensors. The instruments should offer original playing gestures and sounds, augmented with new gestures, sounds and effects. The first instrument built was an electric friction drum, which was also presented at…

EtnoFletno is a mobile and web platform of Slovenian folk songs. The aim is to revive our connection with folk song and music, and use modern technologies to make it accessible for everyone. Available on all major mobile platforms and web browsers, EtnoFletno offers standard search and browsing, as well as more advanced features, such…