Sunshine vs. rain.
Athens(LSAS2006.SAMT2006) vs. Leeds(VirtualGoods2006.AXMEDIS2006).
The beauty of music and technology vs. the future of -if any- DRM.
I had 2 very different experiences in a very short amount of time. Nevertheless I gave 2 talks sharing 1 hope.
#1: The Beauty of the Beast: Semantic Audio.
#2: BluetunA: Sharing your taste in music with people nearby.
Last week I have been at the SAMT 2006 conference, giving a talk at the LSAS 2006 Workshop. I had a great time and good discussions with all the people there. Especially the spanish connection - Oscar Celma and Pedro Cano - delivered brandnew information about the future of music-related technology in semantic environments. Oscar - the so-called father of music semantic web aka foafing-the-music - had to do some powerpoint karaoke which was worth to visit. My talk about the BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: Semantic Audio contained a lot of music and videos. Therefore I still think about something beyond pure .pdf to give away for the public soon.