oops, sent my email simultaneous to you Alex, but I just thought of one
more reference:
if the strings are alphabetic and you want to synthesise
kkkhhrjffiiiiiio
from an existing database of sound grains which has been learnt, see this
paper:
Michael Casey. Acoustic lexemes for organizing internet audio. Contemporary
Music Review, 24(6):489–508, December 2005.
For Michael, the alphabet is just a nice cheap coding mechanism (aab is
different to abb when you search for matches). once constructed, you could
just use it via particular strings which have more cultural meaning:
aaaaaaarrrgh!
--On 28 October 2006 10:38:33 +0100 alex <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 03:12 +0200, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>> you could use mbrola / praat.
>> it would be a very nice way to do music sometimes..
>
> Yes although if we don't have the need to replicate human speech we have
> much wider options for the sounds we can make.
>
> I could do with knowing more about semiotics here, but instead of having
> a word that represent a sound, we can have the certain arrangement of
> letters within the words represent the structure of a sound, and then
> rearrange the letters to make a new sound. Speech synthesis is geared
> towards translating words from one domain to another, so when you tell
> it to synthisise kknnrnarlgn, it doesn't work. Or does it? My
> experiences with the festival speech synth have been disappointing
> anyway. Maybe all that needs to be done is removing some of the
> limitations from the software...
>
> But again considering the bol processor, if we aren't modelling human
> speech we can do things like
>
> kknnnr{aarghh,ooooooh}scshknk!??! , where the aarghh and ooooooh parts
> happen at the same time and are combined. Similarly, we could also mark
> pivot points to aide their placement in time.
>
> "Extended schwitters" is a good inspiration here (all roads lead to
> Hamburg):
> http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/archiv/seiten/en_huene.html
>
> And (back to london) the quack project by Ade + co:
> http://www.quack-project.com/
>
> Must dash...
>
> alex
>
Received on Sat Oct 28 2006 - 09:53:10 BST