Interested in: Developer Advocacy, Music Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning

• Meyda: an audio feature extraction library for the Web Audio API

  1st Web Audio Conference (WAC) January 26, 2015

  There are many existing native libraries and frameworks for audio feature extraction used in multimedia information retrieval. Many are dependent on highly optimised low level code to cope with the high performance requirements of realtime audio analysis. In this paper, we present a new audio feature extractor library, Meyda, for use with the JavaScript Web Audio API, and detail its benchmarking results. Meyda provides the first library for audio feature extraction in the web client, which will…

  There are many existing native libraries and frameworks for audio feature extraction used in multimedia information retrieval. Many are dependent on highly optimised low level code to cope with the high performance requirements of realtime audio analysis. In this paper, we present a new audio feature extractor library, Meyda, for use with the JavaScript Web Audio API, and detail its benchmarking results. Meyda provides the first library for audio feature extraction in the web client, which will enable music information retrieval systems, complex visualisations and a wide variety of technologies and creative projects that previously were relegated to native software. The Meyda project, including source code and documentation is released under an MIT license.

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• R&R Music API Node JS Wrapper

  Mar 2015

  A Javascript SDK for the R&R Music API, started at the R&R hackathon in March 2015. I intend to maintain the library, which has a full testing suite with 100% coverage, and make sure it remains in sync with the RESTful API, including the addition of any new endpoints, or authentication measures.

  I am not affiliated with R&R Music ltd, I just really like their API.

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• SpaceApps 2013 - StationSpotter

  Apr 2013

  During the NASA & MET Office run 2013 Space Apps Challenge in London, Hugh and I answered one of the briefs with a web app designed to display the current position of the International Space Station and allow users to log their sightings.

  Within the 24 hour project time limit we came up with and built StationSpotter.com

  We were very strict at sticking to modern web standards and avoided dying technologies (Flash, Java etc)

  Using only HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript we were able…

  During the NASA & MET Office run 2013 Space Apps Challenge in London, Hugh and I answered one of the briefs with a web app designed to display the current position of the International Space Station and allow users to log their sightings.

  Within the 24 hour project time limit we came up with and built StationSpotter.com

  We were very strict at sticking to modern web standards and avoided dying technologies (Flash, Java etc)

  Using only HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript we were able to create a 3d globe around which revolves the ISS using live location data from a NASA JSON file.

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• Code Club Pi Hack

  Dec 2012

  The first Code Club hack day was over 8th and 9th December, and it was a resounding success. The brief was to design and build a project, using a Raspberry Pi, that schools could do in a Code Club session or two. It should use a Raspberry Pi computer and only other equipment that schools could expect to have to hand, or could get for under £75 (a feasible target for fund raising). http://blog.codeclub.org.uk/2013/01/13/code-club-pi-hack/

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• Smornet

  Mar 2012 - Present

  Smornet is a Linux server cluster administrated by a community of friends for the purpose of web hosting, data storage and software development.

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• Hacksmiths, Goldsmiths UoL's Hacking Society

  Jun 2014 - Dec 2015

  At the beginning of our third year as Music Computing students at Goldsmiths, Nevo and I decided to focus on bringing our experience of the developer community to our fellow students in the form of a Hacking Society. Following the successful models at the University of Nottingham and similar, we were ratified, and organised a series of ~20 weekly talks from thought leaders in the community, encouraged hackathon attendance among the student body, and held a very successful national level…

  At the beginning of our third year as Music Computing students at Goldsmiths, Nevo and I decided to focus on bringing our experience of the developer community to our fellow students in the form of a Hacking Society. Following the successful models at the University of Nottingham and similar, we were ratified, and organised a series of ~20 weekly talks from thought leaders in the community, encouraged hackathon attendance among the student body, and held a very successful national level creative-computing hackathon called Anvil Hack, which attracted many student developers from around the UK. By the time we handed over our role as leaders of the society to a new leadership team, we had built a large membership among the student body at Goldsmiths and fostered a legacy of hacking that remains ongoing.

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• International Baccalaureate

  Score: 32

  May 2011

  As well as scoring well in my six chosen subjects, I gained the three extra points possible between Extended Essay (in digital music encoding theory) and Theory of Knowledge, in which I achieved an A and a B respectively.