TY - GEN
T1 - Surfing the Waves
T2 - International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010
AU - Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre
AU - Schwarz, Diemo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2010, Steering Committee of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - In this paper, the authors describe how they use an electric bass as a subtle, expressive and intuitive interface to browse the rich sample bank available to most laptop owners. This is achieved by audio mosaicing of the live bass performance audio, through corpus-based concatenative synthesis (CBCS) techniques, allowing a mapping of the multi-dimensional expressivity of the performance onto foreign audio material, thus recycling the virtuosity acquired on the electric instrument with a trivial learning curve. This design hypothesis is contextualised and assessed within the Sandboxn series of bass+laptop meta-instruments, and the authors describe technical means of the implementation through the use of the open-source CataRT CBCS system adapted for live mosaicing. They also discuss their encouraging early results and provide a list of further explorations to be made with that rich new interface.
AB - In this paper, the authors describe how they use an electric bass as a subtle, expressive and intuitive interface to browse the rich sample bank available to most laptop owners. This is achieved by audio mosaicing of the live bass performance audio, through corpus-based concatenative synthesis (CBCS) techniques, allowing a mapping of the multi-dimensional expressivity of the performance onto foreign audio material, thus recycling the virtuosity acquired on the electric instrument with a trivial learning curve. This design hypothesis is contextualised and assessed within the Sandboxn series of bass+laptop meta-instruments, and the authors describe technical means of the implementation through the use of the open-source CataRT CBCS system adapted for live mosaicing. They also discuss their encouraging early results and provide a list of further explorations to be made with that rich new interface.
KW - Audio mosaic
KW - Corpus-based concatenative synthesis
KW - Haptic interface
KW - Laptop improvisation
KW - Multi-dimensional mapping
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UR - https://www.nime.org/2010/
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 2010
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
SP - 447
EP - 450
BT - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME10), Sydney, Australia
PB - NIME
Y2 - 15 June 2010 through 18 June 2010
ER -