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Panos Kudumakis, 2013-12-13 03:09 PM


Invited talk on IM AF by Panos Kudumakis, Malaga, Spain 11 April 2013

MPEG-A: Interactive Music Application Format

Sonic Visualiser with IM AF support featuring automatic chords extraction aligned in time with lyrics:
Source code
Executable for windows & mac os/x
La fuga an IM AF (.ima) song
Spanish pop band 'Diɘcinueve', featured in TV and press, is the first band to use Sonic Visualiser with IM AF support that lets music fans remix and share the group's latest single 'La fuga' in endless new forms. Thanks to Emilio Molina Martínez.
HTML5 IM AF Player soon to be able to upload your own re-mixes.

If you would like to involve in this project please contact p.kudumakis at qmul.ac.uk

Projects by students

  • Costantino Taglialatela (C4DM visitor)
    IM AF Encoder: Still Pictures, Rules, Presets, Groups, EQ
    Integration in Sonic Visualiser
    BSc Thesis, Jul. 2013
    53rd AES Conference Paper, Jan. 2014
  • Jesús C. García (Univ. of Malaga)
    IM AF Codec: Lyrics, Metadata, Dynamic Volume, URL
    Integration in Sonic Visualiser
    BSc Thesis, Dec. 2013
    53rd AES Conference Paper, Jan. 2014

Related publications

  • Jesús C. García, Costantino Taglialatela, Panos Kudumakis, Lorenzo J. Tardón, Isabel Barbancho and Mark Sandler, 'Interactive music applications by MPEG-A support in Sonic Visualiser', AES 53rd International Conference on Semantic Audio, London, UK, 27-29 Jan. 2014.
  • Rebecca Stewart, Panos Kudumakis, and Mark Sandler, 'Interactive Music Applications and Standards', in 'Exploring Music Contents', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 20-30, Vol. 6684, Springer Berlin Heidelberg (ISBN 978-3-642-23125-4), August 2011. Editors: S. Ystad, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet & K. Jensen.
  • Panos Kudumakis, Inseon Jang and Mark Sandler, 'A New Interactive MPEG Format for the Music Industry', 7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR'10), Málaga, Spain, 21-24 June, 2010.