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This company is the first ina series of 3 companies founded by the same founder. Khitchdee Technologies followed it. Khitchdee Design is the currently operating company.
A company at the intersection of music and technology. The prupose of the company was to coduct a domain analysis in the areas of music and sound, and identify and build software
products in this space.
The company studied the feasilibity of digital music on the content authoring and consumption side. It was created at a time when the .mp3 format was gaining popularity as a music-streaming technology on Napster.
The company tried to create specilised versions of the general purpose .mp3 format that could be optimised for factors relating to the type of music being processed, such as the genre, the number of sound sources, the timing characteristics, such as the tempo and rhythm being used.
The company explored the domain of sound digitisation and digital signal processing (DSP). Setup a recording studio to study mic-ing and mixing techiques and digitisation and implemented a Linux-server based packet-streaming live radio-station prototype for a format constrained radio-station. Investigated algorithms for the analysis, and reconstruction of digitized live music and speech. Designed digital representation formats and streaming techniques over packet-networks.
It also studied a few forms of music production such as drumming, vocal music and stringed instruments. It explored music-form specific micing techniques, and recognition oriented DSP. It evaluated the possibility of creating a virtual music-teacher, by encoding musical tone recognition and understanding algorithms and teaching content into a software application.
It also did some exploratory work on phoneme detection and speech-recognition.
Investigated the commercial feasibility of these technologies and was shut down after several years due to infeasibility.
After this company was closed down, the founder founded Khitchdee Technologies.
