Last weekend I went to this music hack day in Boston locating in NERD (microsoft New England Research and Development center) close to MIT right across the Charles River. Absolutely beautiful place to work.
Attended several talks which the topics are basically those start-ups who would like people to use their APIs to build stuff. Anyway, pp and I tried Echonest's API's which have two major functions. One is to analyze music using signal processing and machine learning techniques (similar to what I am doing) and the other is text searching for all music related metadata including blogs, comments, etc.
What we did? We took pp's musicpainter which is a graphical collaborative composing interface and align the canvas grid with any music using Echonest's APIs to get tempo, beats and key. Then one can play or compose along with the music you like. (sort of) It is been great fun working with pp. I had a good time there. Lots of free food in the office and delicious home made dishes at pp's. So warm!
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