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Parameter Manipulation for Composing with Physical Models
Juan Reyes (juanig@ccrma.stanford.edu)
Center for Computer
Research in Music and Acoustics(CCRMA)
Department of Music,
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
Abstract:
The problem with Physical Models and their appeal to composers is
not merely perceptual or aesthetic. Furthermore is not a question of
understanding the physics and parameters of the actual
instrument. It is a question of achieving musical textures, realistic
articulations and extending the qualities of a family of sounds
given by a single characteristic timbre in a Physical Model of an
instrument. This can be achieved modeling and manipulating
expression parameters for musical gesture. This paper describes some
composition techniques for rendering a Computer Music piece using Physical
Models as the primary source technique for sound synthesis in
non real time environments and parameter manipulation by means of
envelopes, randomness and chaotic signals for expressiveness.
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