MET-lab
Welcome to the Music Entertainment Technology laboratory home page.
The Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab) is devoted to research in digital media technologies that will shape the future of entertainment, especially in the areas of sound and music. The MET-lab's primary research focuses on the following music and entertainment applications:
- Music production and playback technology: The iPod and digital downloads have changed when and where we experience music. In the near future, the impact of digital technology on how music is produced ated and performed will be even more dramatic.
- Machine listening and music information retrieval: Computers are great at recording, editing, and playing audio, but they can’t tell you much about the sound itself. How can we teach machines to really listen? Can they help organize our ever growing personal music collections?
- New music interfaces: It generally takes years to learn to play a musical instrument. This research looks at creating simpler and more intuitive interfaces that enable people to start making music without prior experience.
The MET-lab is also heavily involved in outreach programs for K-12 students and hosts the Summer Music Technology program, a one-week learning experience for high school students.
DrexelCast
Philadelphia Orchestra Concert Broadcast Presentations in HD
The Music & Entertainment Technology Lab, in partnership with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Specticast, will host five orchestra concert broadcast presentations on Drexel campus throughout the 2009-2010 performance season. These internet-based broadcasts are presented in HD in the Mitchell Auditorium and are free and open to the public.
The DrexelCast presentations are sponsored by the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design, the Pennoni Honors College, and the College of Engineering.
Next DrexelCast: Saturday, November 21 at 8pm; Mahler's Seventh Symphony
Audio Processing Library for Flash (ALF)
Quick Links
ALF Beta I is here!
Preview the ALF documentation.
Download Pulse 2 here.
Download a simple example here example code.
Hide & Speak and Tone Bender available at the METgames site.
What is ALF?
Web Applications
Online Activities for Learning and Listening
Web-based, cross platform games designed to illustrate pscyhoacoustic concepts to K-12 students and collect human evaluation data. These games introduce players to problems in speaker identification and musical timbre recognition through interactive interfaces that encourage learning through experimentation.
Current Games:
Wave Propagation...Try It Out!*
*-These activities are under constant development and may not be available at this time. Please check back soon!
More information on each game follows...
