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Instrument interface and control

Instrument interface and control

May 12, 2017 · by danielformo · in Instrument, Reflection

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

Building a transducer Orchestra

May 14, 2016 · by danielformo · in Instrument

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

Corpus approach and Machine learning

April 1, 2016 · by danielformo · in Analysis, Instrument, Reflection

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

Interface design

December 19, 2014 · by danielformo · in Instrument, Reflection

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

First sounds

October 20, 2014 · by danielformo · in Instrument, Performances

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

Acoustic sound sources

October 20, 2014 · by danielformo · in Instrument

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…

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  • Analysis (5)
  • Compositions (3)
  • Instrument (6)
  • Performances (14)
  • Presentations (4)
  • Reflection (12)
  • Studies (8)
  • Writings (3)

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CONTENTS

  • PROJECT OUTLINE
    • Introduction
    • Background
  • WORK AND RESULTS
    • Speech gestures as material
    • Methods of abstraction
    • Software Instrument system
    • Sound and Orchestration
    • Performance methods
    • Final Artistic Results
  • REFLECTIONS
    • Design and development
    • Possibilities and limitations
    • Speech sources and concept
    • Perception of speech and music
    • Form, meaning and language
    • Reflections on the results
  • APPENDIX
    • Essay on Artistic Research
    • Technical background
  • RESOURCES
    • References
    • Downloads
    • Research blog
    • Symposium videos

This site presents the doctoral artistic research project The Music of Language and Language of Music by Daniel Formo. The project was carried out between 2013-2017 at the Music Department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, as a part of the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme.

Contact: daniel.formo [at] ntnu.no

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