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Timbre interfaces using adjectives and adverbs

Colin G. Johnson and Alex Gounaropoulos

In Norbert Schnell and et al, editors, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 182-196, Paris, June 2006. IRCAM.

Abstract

How can we provide interfaces to synthesis algorithms that will allow us to manipulate timbre directly, using the same timbre-words that are used by human musicians to communicate about timbre? This paper describes ongoing work that uses machine learning methods (principally genetic algorithms and neural networks) to learn (1) to recognise timbral characteristics of sound and (2) to adjust timbral characteristics of existing synthesized sounds.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2543,
author = {Colin G. Johnson and Alex Gounaropoulos},
title = {Timbre Interfaces using Adjectives and Adverbs},
month = {June},
year = {2006},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2006/2543},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {12447_1180366186},
    ISBN = {2-84426-314-3},
    booktitle = {New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
    address = {Paris},
    publisher = {IRCAM},
    refereed = {yes},
    editor = {Norbert Schnell and et al},
}

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