Project Mashbot: Final Report An Engine for Dynamic Audio Mashups

In the music world, a mashup is a fusion of two or more pre-recorded songs. The songs are beat-matched, then selectively combined with audio filters and signal addition. Often, the vocals of one song are mixed over the beats, bass, and melody of another. Project Mashbot represents an attempt to automate this process while maintaining the aesthetic appeal found in mash-ups created by skilled human DJs. This automation will allow users and music artists alike to quickly and easily experiment by combining songs from their music collections on the fly. In this report, the author details the mechanism with which a music mix can be executed. The author then expounds on how this mechanism could be extended to generate mixes automatically.