Instrument interface and control
I knew early that I needed a very intuitive way of controlling this complex instrument I was developing, in order to achieve any meaningful performance results. This is a common issue when designing digital musical instruments (DMI’s), and dependent on…
Building a transducer Orchestra
For some time now I have been working with transducer speakers mounted on acoustic instruments as a kind of hybrid electroacoustic blend that bridges the different sonic realms of the virtual and invisible wall of loudspeaker sound and the physical…
Corpus approach and Machine learning
When starting out my investigation of musicality of speech I set out analyzing, extracting and abstracting all kinds of musical structures from speech recordings. Nevertheless I thought I should keep the time aspect of speech intact, feeling that it is…
Interface design
System and interface design The methods for interfacing and controlling my software became really important when I first had developed a stable minimum of functionality and started using it for improvisation. It was then clear that it needed a very clear layout with few…
First sounds
This is my very first go at improvising with a small “orchestra of speech”, consisting of a mechanical piano, my “acoustic drum machine” setup and some software synthesis played back through a transducer attached to the piano sound board. The…
Acoustic sound sources
Early on in this project I had no clear idea of which sounds or instruments would suit my conception of a speech derived music. During software development I only used very simple sonification like pure sine and noise synthesis, and…
