July 2012: Mapping Melody Dan Leech-Wilkinson looks at melody and rubato in musical performance. This video was produced by Musicology for the Masses.

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July 2012: Mapping Rubato and Loudness Dan Leech-Wilkinson examines the relationship between rubato and loudness in musical performance. This video was produced by Musicology for the Masses.

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July 2012: Annotating Bar and Beat Numbers Dan Leech-Wilkinson explains annotation of a bar/beat hierarchy. This video was produced by Musicology for the Masses.

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December 2010: Analysing temperament in Sonic Visualiser Dan Stowell looks at temperament in harpsichord recordings, using Sonic Visualiser and the TempEst plugin. Direct link to YouTube page.





November 2010: How to install Sonic Visualiser and a Vamp plugin (Mac OSX) Matthias Mauch shows how to install Sonic Visualiser and a Vamp plugin and then demonstrates an automatic chord transcription. Direct link to Vimeo page.





March 2010: A Sonic Visualiser chord labelling example Matthias Mauch from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London talks us through a simple example of labelling a song excerpt with chords in Sonic Visualiser. Chord labelling can be useful for musicological purposes, or as a reference transcription to test automatic chord labelling algorithms. Or just for music-loving fun. Direct link to Vimeo page.





February 2010: A Sonic Visualiser audio and data visualisation example Matthias Mauch from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London talks us through a simple example of loading an audio file and some associated data into Sonic Visualiser and looking at the results. This example is drawn directly from Matthias's everyday use in research on audio chord transcription. Note that the data shown here was calculated by a separate program and is simply loaded (from text files) for inspection in SV, rather than being calculated within the application. For information about the chord transcription and segmentation methods, see Matthias's research. Direct link to Vimeo page.





February 2009: Audio alignment using Sonic Visualiser and MATCH An example of automatic alignment of audio for the purpose of comparing recordings, using Sonic Visualiser with the MATCH audio alignment plugin. This is an example with three different historical recordings of the same classical work. The three audio recordings are loaded, and are first played all together (cacophonously, because they have quite different timing), then solo'ed but unaligned. Then we hit the magic Align button which calculates a time-alignment, and play again with alignment, switching between tracks at will while remaining at the same point in the underlying musical score. Direct link to Vimeo page.



