Taking the first step
This week, I met with my new group for our Capstone project. We’re creating an app that takes in a clip of a song and be able to identify the genre of that song based on the clip. We’re going to be using some pretty interesting technologies like Tensor Flow with Keras, Librosa to preprocess the audio, and some data science libraries like pandas and matplotlib. Our goals that we set for this week were to research the Python libraries that we are planning on using, brainstorming ideas for a project plan, and sketching up an idea for the user interface for the application.
Sound Check
I’m going to be spending the next week researching these new libraries, but in particular I’m very interested to learn about Librosa. See, in a past life, I wanted to be a music producer. Ever since I was 12 years old, I’ve played in rock and metal bands with my friends. Here’s a pic of me from 2006 playing with some friends. Check out my edgy Parental Advisory t-shirt and wild hair!
I’ve sang and played some bass and guitar, but my really bread and butter is drums. During my first undergrad, I took many classes in recording techniques. I’ve even self produced a few songs, but only one of them I feel comfortable sharing.
Anyway, to say I’m excited to get started on this project is an understatement. Looking forward to what myself and my group create!
Personal Note
With the baby girl on the way, 2022 is shaping up to be a very busy year, thats for sure. I’ll be sure to update yinz with the countdown to baby at the end of my blog posts, because its fun and I’m excited!
Countdown to baby: 24 weeks
