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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Freitas Caetano
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2006-04-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando José Von Zuben;
Rafael Santos Mendes;
Romis Ribeiro de Faissol Attux;
Artemis Maria Francelin Sanchez Moroni
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| Advisor: | Jônatas Manzolli; Fernando José Von Zuben |
| Abstract | |
There are no theoretical limitations to the use of the computer as a source of musical sounds. The digital computer allows for the production of any conceivable sound given the carrect sequence af numbers (digital samples). Nevertheless, producing the correct sequence of numbers that correspond to a musical sound expressing predefined perceptual characteristics is a very difficult task. Most sound synthesis methods and systems utilize models and/or incorporate techniques which do not take into account the dynamic nature of musical sounds or were not originally developed for the manipulation of musical tones. In this work we are proposing a populational sound synthesis approach in the time domain. A soundspace and a set of attractors, i.e. waveforms containing a priari desired features or qualities, and a population of agents communicating by means of local interaction were studied, and it was possible to attain sounds which share some qualities from more than one of the attractors, resulting exclusively from low-Ievel rules followed by these agents. This sound synthesis method can be regarded as a search in the vector space that contains ali the possible sounds resulting from the adopted representation, and its objective is to synthesize digital waveforms that possess emergent properties and the potential to be used in musical applications. The resulting sounds are variants or hybrids that share some of the intrinsic features of the attractors, which are responsible for indicating the regions of interest in the search space. This proposal involved the use of bio-inspired algorithms, which express features of adaptive, self-organizing systems, as definers of generating and structuring processes of sound elements, regarded herein as optimization processes. Self-organization and diversity maintenance and adaptation mechanisms, intrinsic to bio-inspired systems, lay the foundations of this proposal so as to make viable the temporal emergence of stable structures without an externa I organizing element (AU) | |