Mused: Navigating the Personal sample Library

This work outlines the concept of personal sample library, a large database of event-synchronous audio segments extracted from a user’s digital music collection. It identifies tasks involved in making sample-based music and audio collage, and shows how interfaces to the personal sample library can aid these tasks and simplify the music development cycle. In this experiment, we implement an interactive scatter plot with dynamic queries to browse, discover, and select material from our database of samples.