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Synthesising Timbres and Timbre-Changes from Adjectives/Adverbs

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2006)

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Synthesising timbres and changes to timbres from natural language descriptions is an interesting challenge for computer music. This paper describes the current state of an ongoing project which takes a machine learning approach to this problem. We discuss the challenges that are presented by this, discuss various strategies for tackling this problem, and explain some experimental work. In particular our approach is focused on the creation of a system that uses an analysis-synthesis cycle to learn and then produce such timbre changes.

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  1. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, England

    Alex Gounaropoulos & Colin Johnson

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra,  

    Ernesto Costa

  5. Dept. LCC, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

    Carlos Cotta

  6. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  7. INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-France, Parc Orsay Université, 4, rue Jacques Monod, 91893, ORSAY Cedex, France

    Evelyne Lutton

  8. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  9. Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Jason H. Moore

  10. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  11. School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  12. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

  13. Kyushu University, Japan

    Hideyuki Takagi

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Gounaropoulos, A., Johnson, C. (2006). Synthesising Timbres and Timbre-Changes from Adjectives/Adverbs. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11732242_63

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