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

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay; Diemo Schwarz

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

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Diemo Schwarz

Centre for Research in New Music

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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 language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME10), Sydney, Australia
Publisher	NIME
Pages	447-450
Number of pages	4
Volume	2010
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2010

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Surfing the Waves: Live Audio Mosaicing of an Electric Bass Performance as a Corpus Browsing Interface. / Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre; Schwarz, Diemo.

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME10), Sydney, Australia. Vol. 2010 NIME, 2010. p. 447-450.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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