Barneyhill

Embedded the AI translation/commentary (or human translated if present) - main purpose of the AI translations was to improve embeddings.

Hi everyone! A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon ISicily (https://github.com/ISicily/ISicily), a project to encode all ancient sicilian inscriptions in a strict xml language called EpiDoc. While the existing website is great I wanted to make an interface which makes it easy to explore the human stories contained within the inscribed text. In order to aid searching for concepts/terms I've also filled in missing translations/commentary with Claude Sonnet-3.5 translations (this is meant as a recreational tool - these translations are not to be trusted...)

Hopefully I'll be able to add more datasets in the coming weeks - if you know any do shout!

Ugh that's so annoying... Was originally hosted on a cloudflare static site - now switched to R2 bucket storage. That might help things?

I agree. Here’s a discovery tool I made to traverse NTS tracklists linked by common tracks ;)

https://www.barneyhill.com/pages/nts-tracklists/

Yeah... I definitely share the feeling that we've hit a wall in terms of new sounds. Currently I think some of the work happening in the audio/ML space is the most promising in terms of emerging possibilities but things are still moving much slower than I thought they would. Here's a couple projects we've done developing novel audio interfaces that leverage ML: https://github.com/vroomai - I'm still confident we'll see a breakout use-case in this area soon.

I went to a interesting hackathon the other day focused on building tools for exploring timbre in sound https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/.

Was brilliant, a lot of groups focusing on the use of ML to characterise the "unexplainable" in sound synthesis.

We ended up submitting a tool for interacting directly with Ableton using LLM agents after becoming disenchanted with text2audio models, wrote about it here - https://montyanderson.net/writing/synthesis

Yep, I came to similar conclusions w/ text-to-audio models - in terms of creative work the ability to iterate is really lacking with the current interfaces. We've stopped working on text-to-audio models and are instead focusing on targeting a lower-level of abstraction by directly exposing an Ableton environment to LLM agents.

We just published a blog today discussing this - https://montyanderson.net/writing/synthesis

Recently I've been thinking about new ways to discover music and made this page to traverse all NTS Radio (https://www.nts.live/) sets as an interconnected network.

It works by displaying all sets containing the selected track. You can then click through white nodes to traverse the network or search for a specific song/artist. All the data is downloaded to the client and traversal is done locally so the page is static.