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Week 9: Audio Similarity and Transcription

Task 1: Similarity

For this task, I used the same tracks as in the previous two weeks. By default, the collection folder already contained tracks 0-9. While our task was to replace the .CSV files for tracks 7-9, which are in the genre of modern academic music. And since tracks 0-3 from the default folder were classical music, we can see their similarity, which is shown in the matrix.

Task 2: Transcription

For this task, I took a composition that I worked with for the first few weeks called Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt. In fact, the png files were taken from the MuseScore of the second week of the lab. Below, you can find the image files that were obtained as a result of transcribing the audio with SonicVisualiser and placed in MuseScore.

Original Version

Transcribed Version

Comparison of Two Compositions

First of all, we can see and hear how different these compositions are. We can see that the transcribed version tries its best to imitate the original, but it fails because of the wrong note placement. We can also notice how the transcribed piece does not indicate time signatures, which is 6/4 in the original. The tempo of the transcribed part is too fast and unsteady. However, the set of notes in the transcribed version remains the same, which may resemble the original. Nevertheless, we can conclude that the transcribed version has too many differences from the original, which is proved by both screenshots of the notes and mp3 files.