My MSc thesis is here. The reader may find many loose ends, which may well get tied up through my PhD research. Abstract: In the context of the live coding of music and computational creativity, literature examining perceptual relationships between text, speech and instrumental sounds are surveyed, including the use of vocable words in music. [...]
More vocable synthesis
by Alex on November 28, 2007
Another screencast, a short one this time, which I’ve been using as a demo in talks.
Vocable source released
by Alex on November 15, 2007
The haskell source for my vocable synthesis system used in my previous screencasts is now available. I’ve been having fun rewriting this over the last couple of days, and would appreciate any criticism of my code.
More vocable synthesis
by Alex on September 10, 2007
Another screencast: As ever, feedback, both positive and negative is very much appreciated!
ASCII Rave in Haskell
by Alex on August 8, 2007
I’ve been playing with using words to control the articulation of a physical modelling synthesiser based on the elegant Karplus-Strong algorithm. The idea is to be able to make instrumental sounds by typing onomatopoeic words. (extra explanation added in the comments) Here’s my first ever go at playing with it: ASCII Rave in Haskell For [...]
Canntaireachd synthesis part two
by Alex on May 5, 2007
Sounds a bit nicer now… This time with a smaller font and an exciting slither of my desktop visible. Sorry about that, see it a bit bigger over here
SoundVis
by Alex on May 5, 2007
Frederic Leymarie and I have created a blog called SoundVis to document our research into the visualisation of sound and music. We’ll be adding our findings to it as time allows…
Canntaireachd for sinewaves
by Alex on April 10, 2007
An early sketch of a system of vocables for describing manipulations of a sine wave. The text is a bit small there, it’s better in the original avi version. Vowels give pitch, and consonants give movements between pitches. Inspired by the notation of canntaireachd. Made with hsc (Haskell client for scsynth). As ever, code available [...]
20010203 (translated)
by Alex on December 30, 2006
Peano weave applied to a slub classic for Ade‘s birthday.. Higher quality AVI available at slub.org
Peano curve weaves of whole songs
by Alex on December 27, 2006
Some nine months ago I played with weaving images from music, including using a peano curve as a mapping. I’ve returned to this subject, having many good ideas to explore from recent discussions with Tim Blackwell. We thought rendering some whole songs would work nicely. I didn’t fancy playing with my Java code again so [...]