Unsounding Objects: Audio Feature Extraction for the Control of Sound Synthesis

Ian Hattwick, Preston Beebe, Zachary Hale, Marcelo Wanderley, Philippe Leroux, and Fabrice Marandola

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents results from the development of a digital musical instrument which uses audio feature extraction for the control of sound synthesis. Our implementation utilizes multi-band audio analysis to generate control signals. This technique is well-suited to instruments for which the gestural interface is intentionally weakly defined. We present a percussion instrument utilizing this technique in which the timbral characteristics of found objects are the primary source of audio for analysis.

Citation:

Ian Hattwick, Preston Beebe, Zachary Hale, Marcelo Wanderley, Philippe Leroux, and Fabrice Marandola. 2014. Unsounding Objects: Audio Feature Extraction for the Control of Sound Synthesis. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178790

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{ihattwick12014,
 abstract = {This paper presents results from the development of a digital musical instrument which uses audio feature extraction for the control of sound synthesis. Our implementation utilizes multi-band audio analysis to generate control signals. This technique is well-suited to instruments for which the gestural interface is intentionally weakly defined. We present a percussion instrument utilizing this technique in which the timbral characteristics of found objects are the primary source of audio for analysis.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Ian Hattwick and Preston Beebe and Zachary Hale and Marcelo Wanderley and Philippe Leroux and Fabrice Marandola},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178790},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {597--600},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Unsounding Objects: Audio Feature Extraction for the Control of Sound Synthesis},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_369.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}