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Alex Harker talks about the use of audio descriptors in creative work. He examines what audio descriptors are, and how they can be used to control realtime processes or aid the construction of music from sample databases. The topic is examined from both a technical viewpoint and a musical one, with a particular highlight on the issues that arise from naïve assumptions about what might occur when we apply descriptor analysis to real world musical situations, even those which might seem simple.
alexanderjharker.co.uk
research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/projects/creativecodinglab
References:
Peeters, G. (2004). A large set of audio features for sound description (similarity and classification) in the CUIDADO project:
http://recherche.ircam.fr/anasyn/peeters/ARTICLES/Peeters_2003_cuidadoaudiofeatures.pdf
CataRT website:
http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT
CataRT demonstration:
youtube.com/watch?v=cWXdTlu_n44
Ben Hackbarth's audioGuide:
benhackbarth.com/audioGuide
Stefano Fasciani's Real Time Voice Control of Instruments:
stefanofasciani.com/?p=85
Stefano Fasciani's Timbral Space of Synthesizers:
stefanofasciani.com/?p=1216
Thomas Grill's Perceptually Motivated and Validated Descriptors for Texture:
grrrr.org/pub/grill-2012-ofai-slides.pdf
grrrr.org/data/research/texmap
Alex Harker talks about the use of audio descriptors in creative work. He examines what audio descriptors are, and how they can be used to control realtime processes or aid the construction of music from sample databases. The topic is examined from both a technical viewpoint and a musical one, with a particular highlight on the issues that arise from naïve assumptions about what might occur when we apply descriptor analysis to real world musical situations, even those which might seem simple.
alexanderjharker.co.uk
research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/projects/creativecodinglab
References:
Peeters, G. (2004). A large set of audio features for sound description (similarity and classification) in the CUIDADO project:
http://recherche.ircam.fr/anasyn/peeters/ARTICLES/Peeters_2003_cuidadoaudiofeatures.pdf
CataRT website:
http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT
CataRT demonstration:
youtube.com/watch?v=cWXdTlu_n44
Ben Hackbarth's audioGuide:
benhackbarth.com/audioGuide
Stefano Fasciani's Real Time Voice Control of Instruments:
stefanofasciani.com/?p=85
Stefano Fasciani's Timbral Space of Synthesizers:
stefanofasciani.com/?p=1216
Thomas Grill's Perceptually Motivated and Validated Descriptors for Texture:
grrrr.org/pub/grill-2012-ofai-slides.pdf
grrrr.org/data/research/texmap
![Alex Harker: Meaningless Numbers? Using Audio Descriptors in a Musical Manner [30.10.2018]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Sh7LvH39dsY/mqdefault.jpg "Alex Harker: Meaningless Numbers? Using Audio Descriptors in a Musical Manner [30.10.2018]
Alex Harker talks about the use of audio descriptors in creative work. He examines what audio descriptors are, and how they can be used to control realtime processes or aid the construction of music from sample databases. The topic is examined from both a technical viewpoint and a musical one, with a particular highlight on the issues that arise from naïve assumptions about what might occur when we apply descriptor analysis to real world musical situations, even those which might seem simple.
http://www.alexanderjharker.co.uk/
https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/projects/creativecodinglab/
References:
Peeters, G. (2004). A large set of audio features for sound description (similarity and classification) in the CUIDADO project:
http://recherche.ircam.fr/anasyn/peeters/ARTICLES/Peeters_2003_cuidadoaudiofeatures.pdf
CataRT website:
http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT
CataRT demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWXdTlu_n44
Ben Hackbarths audioGuide:
http://www.benhackbarth.com/audioGuide/
Stefano Fascianis Real Time Voice Control of Instruments:
https://stefanofasciani.com/?p=85
Stefano Fascianis Timbral Space of Synthesizers:
https://stefanofasciani.com/?p=1216
Thomas Grills Perceptually Motivated and Validated Descriptors for Texture:
http://grrrr.org/pub/grill-2012-ofai-slides.pdf
http://grrrr.org/data/research/texmap/")
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https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/alex-harker
http://www.alexanderjharker.co.uk/
https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/projects/creativecodinglab/
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http://aaroncassidy.com/
https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/aaron-cassidy
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