The Audio Commons Mediator is a central piece in the Audio Commons Ecosystem which facilitates the interconnection of all services and allows developers to access them using a unified API. The Audio Commons...

The Audio Commons Initiative aims to foster creative use of audio content, through favouring interoperability between audio tools and content repositories. For this reason we designed a common data model for audio content,...

As part of the Audio Commons Ecosystem, we have been developing a number of tools for the automatic analysis of audio content (see Annotation tools in the diagram below). These tools are designed...

This week, I headed to the Wallifornia MusicTech 2018 as a panel speaker and mentor. I was very excited about going to Liège in Belgium, taking the Eurostar train from London, and discover...

Semantic Web technologies are increasingly being used in the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, Semantic Web is the key element to overcome diversity of devices and protocols and win the great challenge...

Audio Commons has had an important presence at this year’s NIME 2018 conference, which has been held at Blacksburg, VA, USA. Apart from the presentation of Playsound by Mathieu Barthet, the AudioCommons team...

Playsound.space is a web-based tool to search for and play Creative Commons-licensed sounds. It can be used for music making in contexts such as free music improvisation, soundscape composition and sound discovery. The...

The biennial Sonorities Festival Belfast is an international festival of music that showcases the latest world-wide work in experimental music. Organized and hosted by the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast,...

The Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI) was held last March 18–21 in Stockholm, Sweden. TEI is a fantastic conference that engages multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners in engineering, social...