Music 220b, Homework #3, Matt Wright

"Make Sheila sing..."

The assignment was to use Perry Cook's physical model of the vocal system, a piece of software nicknamed "Sheila".

Rather than have Sheila sing a song, as she was designed to do, I've attemped to make her sing a samba rhythm with vocal percussion. The hardest part of this assignment was getting the consonants to sound even remotely realistic.

Here is the code. It requires the singer instrument. So you should start CLM, then say this:

:cl singer
(load "samba-sheila.lisp")

Here is a WAV file of the piece. Some of the pitches are adjusted by slight random pitch fluctuations, so you'll get a slightly different result if you run it again.