An Application of Auditory Event Structures in a Performance-Oriented
Software Synthesizer
A Thesis submitted to University College Dublin for the degree of M.Sc. in Computer Science
Adapting and Parameterising Auditory Icons for Use in a Synthetic Musical InstrumentPublished by the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 2009
In this thesis we describe the adaptation and
parameterization of environmental auditory
event structures for use in a real-time
musical synthesizer. In doing so, we have
developed a new software musical instrument
based on the parametric representation of
ecological sound structures, and which
facilitates the application of typically
non-musical auditory events in a musical
context.
In this paper we describe the adaptation and parameterization of environmental auditory event structures for use in a real-time musical synthesizer.Since this approach is to be realised within a low-latency, performance oriented synthesizer, our aim is not the development of computationally expensive physical models, but rather to effectively convey complex auditory events using arrays of simple sinusoidal components, while still retaining the key perceptual features of those events.
