Environmental Sound Synthesis, Processing, and Retrieval

Environmental Sound Synthesis, Processing, and Retrieval

It aims at targeting the multifaceted area of research devoted to the complex relation between environment and sound, a relation that still needs to be investigated. Indeed, we are literally immersed into sound: as Handel says, " Listening puts me in the world " ([1], xi). In this sense, a phenomenology of listening, delving deeply into the philosophical and psychological aspects of sound perce...

Audio Processing and Sound Synthesis in Haskell

Perceptual Control of Environmental Sound Synthesis

In this article we explain how perceptual control of synthesis processes can be achieved through a multidisciplinary approach relating physical and signal properties of sound sources to evocations induced by sounds. This approach is applied to environmental and abstract sounds in 3 different experiments. In the first experiment a perceptual control of synthesized impact sounds evoking sound sou...

Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis and Processing Algorithms

Computer programs such as MUSIC V or CSOUND lead to a huge number of sound examples, either in the synthesis or in the processing domain. The translation of such algorithms to real-time programs such as MAX-MSP allows these digitally created sounds to be used effectively in performance. This includes interpretation, expressivity, or even improvisation and creativity. This particular bias of our...

Synthesis of Environmental Sound Textures by Iterated Nonlinear Functions

In previous work, a class of digital sound synthesis methods was introduced using iterated nonlinear functions [1][2][3][4]. Within the phase space of any method in the class, we encounter regions of special interest where signals have peculiar self-similar structures (waveforms of multiple fractal contours) [5][6]. Due to the system dynamics, emergent properties in the output sound signal resu...