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Spleeter

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Tool for Source Separation

“We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation. Spleeter will be presented and live-demoed at the 2019 ISMIR conference in Delft.”

Spleeter

The ‘Song’ of a Distant Black Hole

“Dr. Andrew Fabian and his colleagues at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England made their discovery using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting X-ray telescope that sees the Universe in X-ray light just as the Hubble Space Telescope sees it in visible light.

Using the piano keyboard’s middle C note as a reference point for the middle of the piano key music range, Fabian’s team determined the note is a B -flat. On a piano, the B-flat nearest middle C is located midway between 1/8th and 2/8th of an octave away. In musical terminology, this B flat is 1-1/2 steps from middle C.”

Source : https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/universe/black_hole_sound.html

The Promethus Chord – Mystic Chord

Scriabin himself called it the “chord of the pleroma” (аккорд плеромы akkord pleromy),[1] which “was designed to afford instant apprehension of -that is, to reveal- what was in essence beyond the mind of man to conceptualize. Its preternatural stillness was a gnostic intimation of a hidden otherness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_chord

A Russian composer noted for his adaptation of the mystics chord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin

Carmina Gadelica – Gaelic Prayers, Songs and Incantations

Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, literary-folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, historical anecdotes, natural history observations, and miscellaneous lore gathered in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1860 and 1909. The material was recorded, translated, and reworked by the exciseman and folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912).

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Gadelica

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/corpus/Carmina/

Vol1: https://archive.org/stream/carminagadelicah03carm#page/n9/mode/2up

Vol2:
https://archive.org/stream/carminagadelicah04carm#page/n7/mode/2up

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/crc/research-resources/gaelic/carmichael-watson

Public Domain Audio Libraries

In no particular order …

  • Classical Music Midi Files
  • Piano Rolls (Midi Recorded during Live Performances)
  • The Converse Rubber Tracks Sample Library is a growing collection of audio samples recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks studios. The library is free to use and all samples are completely royalty free – no strings attached.
  • Orange Free Sounds.
  • Alex Lomax – Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files.
  • soundbible.com
  • freesound.org
  • boomlibrary.com – Ambient Nature Sounds
  • partnersinrhyme.com/
  • pdsounds.org
  • sonniss.com/sound-effects
  • sound-ideas.com
  • Sounddogs.com
  • passionatedj.com
  • ipadloops.com
  • iosmusicandyou.com
  • howtomakeelectronicmusic.com
  • createdigitalmusic.com
  • djtechtools.com
  • Advice for Dance Music.
  • Where to Find Sounds
  • List of Sound Libraries