Matching parts: inner voice led control for symbolic and audio accompaniment

  • Authors:
  • Nick Collins

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton

  • Venue:
  • NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In sympathy with the oft-overlooked inner parts of music, this paper seeks the live control of outer parts by a matching process from the inner voices. This artistic conceit is instantiated in two prototypes; first, in a symbolic MIDI system where a MIDI pianist can control the playback of MIDI files truly from 'within', and second, via live concatenative synthesis constrained to apply audio signal matches to an inner voice filter range, controlling the playback of all remaining spectral parts. These techniques are presented more generally within a context of 'indirect' feature matching via a proxy part linked to a database of playback material. Representational issues and future extensions are discussed.