DaisyLab, a Phonetic Deconstruction of Humankind

Diemo Schwarz Nicolas d'Alessandro and

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Abstract:

Program notes: DaisyLab is a duet performance for two new interfaces for musical expression that have in common the ability to generate versatile vocal material. Diemo Schwarz's instrument uses a variety of sensors on the top of corpus-based concatenative synthesis, which has been fed with voice sounds for this performance. Nicolas d'Alessandro plays the HandSketch interface over the new MAGE speech synthesizer, bringing tangible inputs to an emerging speech synthesis technique. Both systems have been submitted as long papers for this 2012 edition of NIME. Together these two performers explore the boundaries between vocal and non-vocal sonic spaces, aiming at deconstructing the humankind's most ubiquitous communicative channel through a compositionally directed improvisation, a ``comprovisation.'' Composer(s) Credits: Instrumentalist(s) Credits: Nicolas d'Alessandro (HandSketch, iPad), Diemo Schwarz (CataRT, gestural controllers) Artist(s) Biography: Nicolas d'Alessandro obtained his PhD in Applied Sciences from the University of Mons in 2009. From a lifelong interest in musical instruments and his acquired taste in speech and singing processing, he will incrementally shape a research topic that aims at using gestural control of sound in order to gain insights in speech and singing production. He works with Prof. T. Dutoit for a PhD at the University of Mons between 2004 and 2009. Late 2009, he moves to Canada, to take a postdoc position with Prof. S. Fels at the MAGIC Lab, University of British Columbia, where he will work on the DiVA project. There he will also organize the first p3s workshop. Since December 2011, he is back in the University of Mons and leads the MAGE project. Nicolas is also an active electroacoustic performer in and around Belgium, playing guitar and invented instruments in various performances. Concert Venue and Time: Necto, Wednesday May 23, 9:00pm

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @incollection{nime2012-music-dAlessandroSchwarz2012,
 abstract = {Program notes:

\emph{DaisyLab} is a duet performance for two new interfaces for musical expression that have in common the ability to generate versatile vocal material. Diemo Schwarz's instrument uses a variety of sensors on the top of corpus-based concatenative synthesis, which has been fed with voice sounds for this performance. Nicolas d'Alessandro plays the HandSketch interface over the new MAGE speech synthesizer, bringing tangible inputs to an emerging speech synthesis technique. Both systems have been submitted as long papers for this 2012 edition of NIME. Together these two performers explore the boundaries between vocal and non-vocal sonic spaces, aiming at deconstructing the humankind's most ubiquitous communicative channel through a compositionally directed improvisation, a ``comprovisation.''

Composer(s) Credits:

Instrumentalist(s) Credits:

Nicolas d'Alessandro (HandSketch, iPad), Diemo Schwarz (CataRT, gestural controllers)

Artist(s) Biography:

Nicolas d'Alessandro obtained his PhD in Applied Sciences from the University of Mons in 2009. From a lifelong interest in musical instruments and his acquired taste in speech and singing processing, he will incrementally shape a research topic that aims at using gestural control of sound in order to gain insights in speech and singing production. He works with Prof. T. Dutoit for a PhD at the University of Mons between 2004 and 2009. Late 2009, he moves to Canada, to take a postdoc position with Prof. S. Fels at the MAGIC Lab, University of British Columbia, where he will work on the DiVA project. There he will also organize the first p3s workshop. Since December 2011, he is back in the University of Mons and leads the MAGE project. Nicolas is also an active electroacoustic performer in and around Belgium, playing guitar and invented instruments in various performances.

Concert Venue and Time: Necto, Wednesday May 23, 9:00pm},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.},
 author = {Nicolas d'Alessandro and, Diemo Schwarz},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 day = {21-23},
 editor = {Georg Essl and Brent Gillespie and Michael Gurevich and Sile O'Modhrain},
 month = {May},
 publisher = {Electrical Engineering \& Computer Science and Performing Arts Technology, University of Michigan},
 title = {DaisyLab, a Phonetic Deconstruction of Humankind},
 year = {2012}
}