Surfing the Waves: Live Audio Mosaicing of an Electric Bass Performance as a Corpus Browsing Interface

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Diemo Schwarz

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2010 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME10), Sydney, Australia
PublisherNIME
Pages447-450
Number of pages4
Volume2010
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2010
EventInternational Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 15 Jun 201018 Jun 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Volume2010
ISSN (Print)2220-4792

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010
Abbreviated titleNIME 2010
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period15/06/1018/06/10

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