ISEE3D is a 3D musical sound browser which uses nested boxes to allow browsing through a hierarchy of perceptually organized sound spaces. Keywords multimedia, database, musical sound, 3D, dataglove. INTRODUCTION The content-based retrieval of musical audio data is a challenging problem of human-computer interaction [7]. In spite of the importance of musical audio in the entertainment industries,
... [Show full abstract] this problem has received relatively little attention. Musical audio is often stored as a collection of bytes with little in terms of task-level description attached. To allow sound designers, musicians and composers alike to search their collections of musical sounds they would need: 1) Some form of task-level description and organization of their audio objects. 2) A way of representing such descriptions. In this paper, we present our approach to the second problem: ISEE3D, a visualization tool for structured browsing of musical sounds based on the Intuitive Sound Editing Environment (...