Projects

The SOUNDS European Training Network (ETN) revolves around a new and promising paradigm coined as Service- Oriented, Ubiquitous, Network-Driven Sound. Inspired by the ubiquity of mobile and wearable devices capable of capturing, processing, and reproducing sound, the SOUNDS ETN aims to bring audio technology to a new level by exploiting network-enabled cooperation between devices. We envision the next generation of audio devices to be capable ...

The project aims to study and valorize fifteenth- and sixteenth-century plainchant sources and repertoire, and to research musical life in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands. Five core objectives will be fullfilled: • As a first step towards true valorisation, the sources need unlocking to the academic world and the general public. • Unlocking in isolation is not sufficient. The sources have to be studied and interpreted in both their ...

SCRIPT & SOUND has grown out of the partnership between the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
and the Alamire Foundation ‒ Centre of Excellence for Musical Heritage of KU Leuven (ALAMIRE). As 
an international centre it focuses on the study and valorization of musical heritage, concentrating 
on the Low Countries before 1800, with an emphasis on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In constant 
dialogue with the ...

Smart Sound Monitoring: adding intelligence to sound sensor networks

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In September 2018, the Library of Voices will open in the St. Norbert’s Gate building on the Park Abbey site in Leuven, to complement the House of Polyphony. The Library of Voices will be a high-tech, innovative and interdisciplinary platform from which the KU Leuven and the Alamire Foundation will implement digital images, develop their unique collection with the Alamire Digital Lab (ADL), digitally disseminate the collection through the ...