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Matching Parts : Inner Voice Led Control for Symbolic and Audio Accompaniment

Nick Collins

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

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.

Citation

Nick Collins. 2007. Matching Parts : Inner Voice Led Control for Symbolic and Audio Accompaniment. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177075 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2007_Collins,
author = {Collins, Nick},
title = {Matching Parts : Inner Voice Led Control for Symbolic and Audio Accompaniment},
pages = {220--223},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2007},
address = {New York City, NY, United States},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177075},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_220.pdf},
keywords = {accompaniment,concatenative sound syn-,feature matching,inner parts,interactive mu-,melodic similarity,nime07,thesis},
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.}
}