Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
Spectromorphology: explaining sound-shapes
Organised Sound
Analysis and Synthesis of Textured Motion: Particles and Waves
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
International Journal of Computer Vision - Special Issue on Texture Analysis and Synthesis
Microsound
Space-form and the acousmatic image
Organised Sound
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The concepts introduced by Smalley in the context of space-form (2007) have firmly put acousmatic music on a discourse of spatial exploration, holding much potential for the developing of aesthetics in new directions. This article approaches space from the low level of musical structure, with a multi-dimensional attitude to space-form, exploring spatial texture, a concept introduced by Smalley to describe the temporal formations of space in spectromorphology (1997). Spatial articulation is investigated in the context of granular-oriented textures, proposing a micro-spatial, perceptual morphology ??? the texton ??? as an aesthetic approach to acousmatic music. This follows Albert Bregman's speculation regarding equivalents to visual perception in texture, where the theory of textons was first developed by the neuroscientist B??la Julesz. The article discusses acousmatic textons, in terms of intrinsic properties, the way they propagate in time, and how they organise in distributions to form spatial textures. The emergent macroscopic qualities of textonal formations are also reflected upon in the introduction of a group of textural states, where source-bonded spaces and abstract musical thinking coalesce.