Participatory musical improvisations with Playsound.space

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A web app that pulls ~400k sounds from Freesound via its API and lets users play and loop multiple samples in-browser with spectrogram-based search, real-time looping, browser WAV recording, URL session sharing and a chat for collaborative discovery. A 15‑person user test (mix of nonmusicians and musicians) shows novices can improvise with it; later builds add time‑stretch/speed shift and real‑time cutting. HTMLAudio vs AudioBuffer tradeoffs cause latency vs preload issues experienced during a live Brazil performance.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:42Our Goal
3. 2:27Playsound.space
4. 3:39Visual Search engine
5. 4:12Demo Video
6. 6:16Features
7. 6:35First Evaluation
8. 7:10Second Version
9. 7:39Second Evaluation
10. 8:32Web Audio Integration

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