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Engineers at the University of Rochester are now sharing details on a new compression concept, one that has achieved interesting early results. The team managed to squeeze a 20-second clarinet solo into roughly 1 kilobyte, or 1/1000th the equivalent capacity of an MP3. The researchers disclosed the accomplishment Wednesday at the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing in Las Vegas.
The team pointed to a number of flaws in the initial experiment, though most judged the files as pretty close. Instead of paring down an original recording, the Rochester team recreated "both the real-world physics of a clarinet and the physics of a clarinet player," a methodology that essentially recreates the instrument in a virtual capacity.
That replaces a system of recording and storage, and substitutes it with an intelligent reproduction approach. "I think we may have found the absolute least amount of data needed to reproduce a piece of music," said Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-creator of the technology. "Maybe the future of music recording lies in reproducing performers and not recording them."
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