I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….

I thought the interface was quite nice and seems fairly intuitive, I like the way the audio track is divided into waveforms according to pitch on a timeline and you can edit each individual waveform to adjust pitch, length and dynamics.

Seeing as they can arrange in pitch order and change key easily, the logical step is to convert this directly into notation. Playing a mainstream jazz / pop recording into this and churning out notation would be awesome! I’ve always dreamt of whistling or singing a tune and having a program throw back the notes to me. The midi keyboard in the demo hints at this functionality =D

Very exciting =) Not sure exactly how it interprets the waveform and breaks it down into individual notes, but the video demo is just brilliant. Computing the Fourier transform of the sampled audio sounds convincing, since each formant has its own frequency, the signal can be represented by a mix of sinusoid waves, or partials. This page goes through some relevant Fourier technicalities:

http://www.dspdimension.com/category/tutorial/

But the formants are very close together, the AI must be very sensitive, wow.

It’s the “real life” identity that is a mishmash of things that will throw people off the scent of how they should relate to me. Online, with a name that people don’t associate with anything much, they have to relate to your ideas, and judge you for what you bring to the discussion rather than what you look like, your race or religion or age or sex.

There is of course the concern that the people are more likely to misbehave if they can do so anonymously , and it’s quite likely that you will experience prejudice if you take a stand on this.

What is important is reputation, and certification of authorship. The single “real name” that creates the persona is irrelevant. (Especially considering the fact that some online personas are gestalts, or psuedogestalts).

I think rather than trying to impose our “real world” systems of identity on the internet, we’d do well to learn from the internet in our social structures in “real world”, and make it easier to allow people to call themselves different things in different situations. It would require a rethink of social structures, but it can be done, and it would provide people with an extra layer of freedom.