Jam with Jamendo

“Give me happy pop songs in C major and with a fast tempo”: A vocal assistant for content-based queries to online music repositories

“…The Audio Commons Initiative [3] provides an ecosystem through which musicians (performers, sound designers, composers) can access audio content with various tools. These tools include interfaces based on web browsers (e.g., Freesound [11], Jamendo [2]), audio plugins, or live coding tools [12]. Such a web-based approach provides access to distributed audio content in a userfriendly way and aims to bridge the gap between audio content producers, providers and consumers.…”

“…A webbased tool designed for beginners or advanced musicians willing to explore music composition based on semantic ideation and spectrogram sound inspection was proposed in [13] utilizing content queried from Freesound. Similarly, [7] reports a web-based prototype allowing expert and novice musicians to discover songs in Jamendo by specifying a set of chords. The study reported in [14] proposed a sonic wearable interface letting users trigger and transform sounds downloaded from Freesound through body-based gestural interactions tracked by e-textile sensors.…”

“…The database and API infrastructure are self-hosted and built upon the open-source OpenFaaS framework and Docker Swarm. Figure 3 shows a conceptual diagram of the custom API components and interactions with external APIs.. Chord indexing was performed by the same algorithm that was used for the studies reported in [32,7,8], genre and mood were scraped from the Jamendo API and the remaining criteria (key, tempo, and tuning) were calculated by the open-source Essentia extractor [33].…”

“…Jamendo o↵ers a large amount of musical content that is largely unknown. This has spurred the exploration of novel methods of discovery, which are not based on the currently adopted search methods that are based on textual input (e.g., typing on a browser or a mobile app the title of the song or the name of an artist) [7,8]. Notwithstanding the possibility of exploring and playing the songs from such databases through text-based music search engines and playlists, to the authors' best knowledge there is still a gap in interaction mechanisms making these large collections of music adapted to listeners' and instrument players' needs (e.g., content-based queries for music enjoyment, improvisation, learning, or composition).…”

Discovering Creative Commons Sounds in Live Coding

“…The main challenge is navigating unknown sound databases and finding appropriate sounds in live performance. One approach to overcoming the limitations is by combining personal and crowdsourced databases, which was explored by the author and colleagues obtaining promising results (Xambó, Roma, Lerch, Barthet and Fazekas 2018b). Ordiales and Bruno investigated the use of CC sounds from RedPanal.org and Freesound combined with sounds from local databases using a hardware interface for live coding (Ordiales and Bruno 2017).…”