Wait for it ...

June 2, 2024 5:09 AM

Before you go "Aw, this is programmer b***s***!" and huck (maybe "huque" if you're Canadian) (or French) your laptop out the window, just hang on. TLDR: Python Notebooks for Fundamentals of Music Processing

This is part of International Audio Laboratories Erlangen and it is a whole course about music processing.

With some, wait for it, material on the basics, like music notation, harmony, chords, scales, etc.tempo and a whole lot more.

I mean, yeah, there's some programmer stuff about audio processing in Python, which is the accompaniment* to the Fundamentals of Music Processing textbook. by Meinard Müller, who seems competent enough. which is helpful.

The International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs) are a joint institution of Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The AudioLabs were founded in 2010 and are unique worldwide in both its mission and international approach: A team of globally-renowned scientists is working to shape the future of audio and multimedia technologies in research areas such as audio coding, audio signal analysis and perceptual spatial audio signal processing.**

They also are German, so you know they know their s*** about music.***

Anyway, if you're bored and it's Sunday or whatever day it is, go there and learn stuff and things.

Enjoy!****

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*Note the subtle use of a music-related term! Ha!

**I copied that paragraph. Verbatim and s***

***Which is not to say other nationalities don't know about music, just ... you know.

****Yes, I'm trying to be funny. Trying is the keyword here.

posted by JustSayNoDawg (12 comments total)

I know "huque" is an item of clothing (well, I do now) but it seemed like a good joke at the time. My computer keeps wanting to correct it to "tuque", which is also an item of clothing.

French is weird, yo.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:14 AM on June 2 [1 favorite]

Do I get a prize for egregious asterisking? Is that even a word?

I am completely sober, BTW.'

OK I'll stop now. Have to get ready for church.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:18 AM on June 2

sounds good
posted by HearHere at 5:24 AM on June 2 [1 favorite]

I've spend so many days and days trying to get the proper python packages to run for using Magenta and Tensorflow. I can't even imagine the errors one would get with these python notebooks. My experience is there is no future compatibility with them. (That's probably more a grouse about how quickly Magenta was embraced and then discarded within a few years.)

And for me, I think I realized many years ago that I'm not going to get in the weeds with fourier transforms. There was a time I was considering writing some audio plugins, but it's a pretty dense market these days. I think I've even skimmed through this book!
posted by Catblack at 6:55 AM on June 2 [2 favorites]

I’m from southern Ontario and I think growing up we often used the word huck, rhymes with chuck. Is huque the same word, pronounced the same way (or maybe something like hock or the French pique)?

Great post, btw.
posted by simra at 7:03 AM on June 2 [2 favorites]

Sorry, autocorrect changed phoque to pique.
posted by simra at 7:04 AM on June 2

Re: "huque" - I have no idea. It was originally a joke spelling, then I actually looked it up and ... well, it's still about spelling, but also seems to add. bit of SQUIRREL! to the post, which I like. So, to answer your question:

I dunno.

Closest I ever got to Canada was Muskegon. Closest I got to French was a bad Clouseau accent in a play one time.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 8:04 AM on June 2

Your footnote-asterisks and censorship-asterisks are intermingling in a very unsettling way here
posted by phooky at 9:00 AM on June 2 [2 favorites]

If you're into music processing, you can process music with Processing. I took Perlin noise and constrained it with Markov-chained chords, and they told me it sounded like the Allman Brothers. The tricky thing with MIDI notes is you have to keep track of all of them so that you can turn each one off at just the right time.
posted by The Half Language Plant at 9:26 AM on June 2 [3 favorites]

@phooky: yeah. Ain’t it great? It wasn’t planned, but still quite satisfying.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 11:15 AM on June 2

Somebody just said, "can I huck you some money?", which is pretty much how we used huck when I was a kid (in western Canada).
posted by sneebler at 11:59 AM on June 2

Dawg, you must have known that it's raining here this afternoon, and that I was looking for this sort of rabbithole to dive into. Python, audio and music, computer applications for same? Three for three. So thanks!
posted by Artful Codger at 12:12 PM on June 2