8th October 2020
I presented a poster at the 2nd International Conference on Timbre on our work exploring the acoustic dimensions of a perceptual timbre space for sounds produced by a subtractive synth.
Reflections on Timbre 2020 on the topic of sound synthesis:
I presented a poster at the 2nd International Conference on Timbre on our work exploring the acoustic dimensions of a perceptual timbre space for sounds produced by a subtractive synth.
Reflections on Timbre 2020 on the topic of sound synthesis:
- The timbre community is still searching for new descriptions of timbre as a musical control structure.
- In electronic music, timbre is perhaps now considered to be more important than tonality and pitch - timbre defines whole electronic music genres and composition.
- Neural audio synthesis
- Semantic descriptions of FM synth sounds could pose new ways to interact with the notoriously untameable FM timbre galaxy. Through factor analysis & an online listening experiment, my colleagues determined the principal semantic dimensions for a set of FM sounds, that were generated and rated by domain experts
- Physical modelling synthesis enables definition of resonant bodies and excitation sources that transcend physical limits - this is exciting for composition of novel abstract timbres
Timbre Space Representation of a Subtractive Synthesizer
Timbre 2020 International Conference on Timbre
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Timbre 2020

