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Embodied sound design

Guillaume LemaitreStefano Delle MonacheStefano BaldanAndrea CeraDavide RocchessoFrédéric Bevilacqua

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Range (music)sound synthesisProcess (engineering)Sound designHuman Factors and Ergonomicsvocal sketchingsonic interaction design01 natural sciences050105 experimental psychologyEducationHuman–computer interaction0103 physical sciencesSettore ICAR/13 - Disegno IndustrialeNatural (music)0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSet (psychology)010301 acousticsSound (geography)embodimentSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle Informazionigeographygeography.geographical_feature_categorySettore INF/01 - Informatica05 social sciencesGeneral EngineeringSound designHuman-Computer InteractionHardware and ArchitectureEmbodied cognitionSound design; embodiment; vocal sketching; sound synthesisSoftwareGesture

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Abstract Embodied sound design is a process of sound creation that involves the designer’s vocal apparatus and gestures. The possibilities of vocal sketching were investigated by means of an art installation. An artist–designer interpreted several vocal self-portraits and rendered the corresponding synthetic sketches by using physics-based and concatenative sound synthesis. Both synthesis techniques afforded a broad range of artificial sound objects, from concrete to abstract, all derived from natural vocalisations. The vocal-to-synthetic transformation process was then automated in SEeD, a tool allowing to set and play interactively with physics- or corpus-based sound models. The voice-driven process and tool, developed and evaluated through design exercises, show how an embodied sound sketching system can work in supporting the externalisation of sonic concepts.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2018-10-01
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.05.007http://hdl.handle.net/11578/274213