Auditory augmentation system and method of composing a media product

An auditory augmentation system comprising:

• a database containing a multiplicity of audio sections for digital audio files, each audio section mapped to a contextual theme defined with respect to identifying musical timing for the audio section, each theme itself mapped to at least one entry point and at least one exit point, said entry and exit points supporting a seamless fade transition between different audio sections and wherein each of said at least one entry point and said at least one exit point relates to an anacrusis event for the section as expressed in terms of beats and fractions;
• a processing system coupled to the database and responsive to said metadata;
• and
• an input coupled to the processing system, the input identifying a changing nature of events presented as a temporal input to the processing system, each event categorized with a theme;
• wherein the processing system is arranged to correlate the categorized themes of said changing events with said contextual themes for audio sections and is further arranged automatically to select and splice together audio sections to reflect said events as the temporal input varies.

A method of aligning audio sections in one or more digital audio tracks with temporally-varying events data to compose a media product, the method comprising:

• receiving, as temporal input, a stream of data containing temporally-changing events data;
• accessing a database containing a multiplicity of audio sections and associated metadata for digital audio files, each audio section mapped to at least one contextual theme defined with respect to identified musical timings, each contextual theme itself mapped to an audio section having at least one entry point and at least one exit point, said entry and exit points supporting seamless splice or fade transitions between different audio sections and wherein each of said at least one entry point and said at least one exit point relates to an anacrusis event for the section as expressed in terms of beats and fractions and wherein said musical timings take the form of one of:
• (i) a beginning and an end in the case of a sustained feature for the contextual theme, wherein the sustained features is one of a form function and a hit point over time;
• and (ii) a specific point in time for a hit point;
• resolving the temporal input into one of a plurality of relevant categorized contextual themes;
• correlating said categorized contextual themes with metadata associated with selected audio sections relevant to the one or more of the plurality of categorized contextual themes;
• and
• splicing or fading together selected audio sections from one or more selected digital audio files of the database to reflect said events as the temporal input varies, thereby generating, as an output, a media product in which transitions between audio sections are seamless and the audio sections are aligned with the temporally-changing events.

A method of aligning audio sections in one or more digital audio tracks with temporally-varying events data to compose a media product, the method comprising:

• receiving, as temporal input, a stream of data containing temporally-changing events data;
• accessing a database containing a multiplicity of audio sections and associated metadata for digital audio files, each audio section mapped to at least one contextual theme defined with respect to identified musical timings, each contextual theme itself mapped to an audio section having at least one entry point and at least one exit point, said entry and exit points supporting seamless splice or fade transitions between different audio sections and wherein each of said at least one entry point and said at least one exit point relates to an anacrusis event for the section as expressed in terms of beats and fractions and wherein said musical timings take the form of one of:
• (i) a beginning and an end in the case of a sustained feature for the contextual theme, wherein the sustained features is one of a form function and a hit point over time;
• and (ii) a specific point in time for a hit point;
• selecting at least one relevant contextual theme from a plurality of contextual themes;
• correlating said at least one selected relevant contextual theme with metadata associated with selected audio sections relevant to the one or more of the plurality of categorized contextual themes;
• and
• splicing or fading together selected audio sections from one or more selected digital audio files of the database to reflect said events as the temporal input varies, thereby generating, as an output, a media product in which transitions between audio sections are seamless and the audio sections are aligned with the temporally-changing events.