SoundTracer: A brief project summary

Abstract

The SoundTracer project is a collaborative effort between the Norwegian National Library and the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. The goal of the project is to use the audio recordings collected by the folk music department of the National Library to create a query-by-gesture application that is able to search and retrieve specific pieces of music using motion detected by a mobile device. This brief summary will outline the objectives, the methods that are used, as well as the results of the SoundTracer project.