| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/T06384/01 |
| Title: |
High-level control of music synthesis for musicians |
| Principal Investigator: |
Howard, Professor DM |
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| Department: |
Electronics |
| Organisation: |
University of York |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 September 2004 |
Ends: |
31 August 2007 |
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221,304
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| Multimedia |
Music & Acoustic Technology |
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Sound synthesis can be achieved by many methods, but none provides musicians with controls that are intuitive in musical terms; rather, they make use of low-level parameters such as fundamental frequency, filter cut-off frequency, or filter resonance. If musicians were able to make use of high-level terms that they regularly use during their music making such as bright-dark, poor-rich, focussed-unfocussed, static-dynamic, they would be able to create sounds in a much more intuitive manner. This can only be achieved by investigating the links between what musicians mean when they use high-level terms and the output sounds to which they refer. This project will (a) look at how musicians describe sounds, (b) decide what sound synthesis system would best enable such sounds to be created, and (c) implement a version of that synthesis system where sound creation is controlled using high-level musical sound descriptors.
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http://www.york.ac.uk |