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Imaginary soundscapes: the SoDA project

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Marinos Koutsomichalis,

Andrea ValleAuthors Info & Claims

AM '14: Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2636879.2636885

Published: 01 October 2014 Publication History

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The SoDA (Sound Design Accelerator) project aims at providing a flexible software environment for soundscape generation. Based on semantic information, it provides both an annotation schema and an annotated library of sound files that operates in relation to a generative system that delivers the final audio content. SoDA provides the user with various forms of interaction: from incremental assisted exploration of semantic and audio content in real-time to completely automated off-line soundscape composition. In this paper we describe the semantic and audio components and the various interaction modes.

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Imaginary soundscapes: the SoDA project
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing

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