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The Irish Traditional Music Tune Index www.irishtune.info Mission: To promote authentic, high-quality learning of Irish traditional music around the world. To be mercilessly and amazingly accurate at cataloging the Irish tune repertoire. #irishtrad
Update to my post bsky.app/profile/iris... - Currently that project has been delayed by a family of new projects that need to happen first. One of them is gradually going public now: using my AI model to help me find the past 30 years of my own human errors in irishtune.info so I can fix them.
For the data nerds among you, the machine-learning test datasets I published last year are now easier to dig into at huggingface.co/datasets/ala... - and are still also hosted at www.irishtune.info/public/MLdat...
Who wants to collaborate on an academic publication about my tune-identification AI?
The vision: You give it an audio clip and it will point you to the matching tune in irishtune.info. Maybe done by late winter? If I don't get it done by St. Patrick's Day I'll go back to adding more albums until the smoke clears from my brain.
Good news: I'm going to tackle the monster project of figuring out a way to put my my amazing audio-based tune identifier in your hands as a new irishtune.info feature. See my posts about this in June bsky.app/profile/iris...
Announcement time! Bad news: I will now take a long break from adding new albums, having finally finished all the pre-2020 albums in the to-do pile.
The irishtune.info Data Explorer got a data refresh (last refreshed in March). Explore the complex picture of tune rhythm and mode popularity among irishtune.info users.
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An album full of violinistic, thoughtful, tastefully accompanied slow airs.
Mighty stuff out of Sliabh Luachra. Flute and fiddle to keep you at it all night, with a bunch of new tunes by Francis keeping things fresh.
Top-class music for experienced set dancers: tight, clean, melodeon-energized, fast but smooth, and above all it entices the feet to batter.
An album to put you in mind of an evening of craic at a rural rambling house, but with Benny of Danú fame on the box. Doff of the cap to making Off to California listenable again!
At long last this sadly out-of-print treasure of Sliabh Luachra music is represented in irishtune.info.
This addition also marks the completion of all the pre-2020 albums waiting in the irishtune.info to-do queue.
Sweet music harvested from a wide range of sources, all softened and deepened by Charlie's careful handling.
A remarkable album not only for Fergal's mastery of a huge musical range from sublime to jocular to frenetic but also for Ryan's pianistic artistry.
These Waterford and Cork lads make seamlessly beautiful music that clearly benefited from spending their formative years together.
Finally closing this notable 1991 gap. Not only the recording debuts of future big names Cathal Hayden and Donal Murphy but also just plain happy music.
A surprisingly successful blend of music from opposite corners of Ireland, plus Scotland, with unsurprisingly excellent duet work from Bríd and Tony.
Excellent piping from the Bay Area, although Tim came originally from the Philly community, including time with Ed Reavy.
Lovely touch on the box from an unexpected corner of the world, and it's nice to hear Brian get out from behind the piano for a change, even while he's there, too!
Masterful piping across an interesting range of the piping repertoire, from older to newer and and from core to rare.
Happy to add more of Elaine's harp, her first solo album, released just weeks after the high-end Avalla album she featured on.
Tight tunes from a New York-centered trio filtering the tradition through their taste for Donegal repertoire, the founding New York trad fiddlers, and piping repertoire.
Finally closed this gap in the canonical flute albums. You can't have too much Matt Molloy.
A young Dublin duet with an old sound, contributing meaningfully to the illumination of mid-20th-century musicians Ella Mae O'Dwyer, Nora Hurley, Ellen "Nell" Galvin, Mollie Myers Murphy, plus the better-known Aggie Whyte.
Careful, steady, and well-matched, this dyad explore bookish corners of the tradition.
Big flute-fiddle sound, threading the needle perfectly between high energy and a measured pace that leaves time for some swing and lift.
