Gamelan

An environment for the management and archiving of music and digital audio content

The existing environments for sound and musical production consist of several tools designed for making and putting together sounds. Be it classical, contemporary, electro-acoustic, electronic, or pop music, each production manages a large number of sound samples and uses a broad range of tools for the creation, modification, or embellishment of sounds.

In a production setting, it is not unusual to find a variety of tools: recording tools, tools to 'clean' the sound, sound banks, processing tools, tools for sound synthesis, sequencers, audio effect libraries, tools for synchronization and mixing, in addition to all the other tools that are specific to a given production such as the score.

This project has four main objectives:

1. Production Environments: Follow all your actions from the source material to the finished product (e.g. action 'X' carried out on file 'Y' created a new file) and organize the elements that intervene in a production (files, software) in structures predetermined by the user including them in the environment’s components.  Formalize the knowledge created during the production process. The application objective is to be able to work with any production software on the market and work with the environment whenever any of these programs are used.
2. Preservation Strategies: Utilize the production environment like a platform for archiving, extracting structures and knowledge that simplify future access to the environment. Apply OAIS methodologies that let future users use the environment and its components.
3. Reusing Productions: Restructure production material with new objectives in mind, add other material and modify the connections found in the global structure. Use parts of the environment to generate new environments. Deconstruction and reconstruction of processes to analyze the intentions.
4. Copyright Management: Enable a traceability of the contents during a production to manage the copyrights.

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