Timbre interfaces using adjectives and adverbs

Authors:
Colin G. Johnson;Alex Gounaropoulos
Affiliations:
University of Kent, Canterbury, England;University of Kent, Canterbury, England
Venue:
NIME '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Year:
2006

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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.