On July 10th Xavier Serra gave a Tech Talk at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California with the title "From Sound Synthesis to Sound Retrieval and Back". The talk went over the ties that exist between some of the current trends in sound generation for music and multimedia applications and the techniques for content based sound retrieval. It presented some of the research carried out in the Music Technology Group, in particular it went over the work on spectral based concatenative synthesis and on sound and music retrieval. It also presented the Freesound project, showing the potential that this open and shared resource has for the research on sound retrieval and for experimenting with new sound generation systems.

The talk is available at Google video: Serra Tech Talk