abrennec/ma_soundquery

An investigation on how to search for audio clips and improve workflows in post-production - Masters Thesis for my Grand Master of Fine Arts at Filmunivertity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Query for Sound - searching for the unnameable

This is my masters thesis in for my major in "sound for picture" at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.

After a long time of thinking about how to improve a sound designers daily tasks, I found a fruitful field of innovation potential for nowadays audio post production workflows. By opening my writing process to the public, I want to share my private research results and inspire other audio and programming enthusisasts to start building thier own prototypes.

I decided to keep the specific film background short, as the task of searching for audio clips is universal for all audio facets - even musicians use soundscapes and samples all the time.

The main topics will include:

• state of the art methods and software in post production
• short overview of common metadata
• audio content search
• statistical methods
• visualization of the results
• concepts to improve workflows in post production
• implementation of a few features as proof of concept

Stay tuned and feel free to write me a message about what you think about the topic or if you have something valuable to share with me.

Best regards,

noVaSon