Timbre Interfaces using Adjectives and Adverbs

Colin G. Johnson, and Alex Gounaropoulos

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

How can we provide interfaces to synthesis algorithms thatwill allow us to manipulate timbre directly, using the sametimbre-words that are used by human musicians to communicate about timbre? This paper describes ongoingwork 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.

Citation

Colin G. Johnson, and Alex Gounaropoulos. 2006. Timbre Interfaces using Adjectives and Adverbs. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176933

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Johnson2006,
 abstract = {How can we provide interfaces to synthesis algorithms thatwill allow us to manipulate timbre directly, using the sametimbre-words that are used by human musicians to communicate about timbre? This paper describes ongoingwork 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.},
 address = {Paris, France},
 author = {Johnson, Colin G. and Gounaropoulos, Alex},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176933},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {timbre; natural language; neural networks },
 pages = {101--102},
 title = {Timbre Interfaces using Adjectives and Adverbs},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2006/nime2006_101.pdf},
 year = {2006}
}