Sound and Music Research
Research Areas in Brief
Sound and Music research in
MediaTech is
carried out in the areas of:
Team leader:
John Fitch.
Research Areas in Detail
-- Hierarchical Assembly --
- The aim of this research is to provide a computer system in which
sound and music can be constructed from primitives. Any larger
pieces built from primitives can then be used as building blocks
themselves. This allows for the handling of sound as real
objects that can be moved to points in musical space without
affecting the internal structure of the object.
- Research Team :-
-- Algorithmic composition --
- The aim of this research is to investigate how natural and
physical processes can be used to model the compositional
process. The current model uses differential equations to
generate music.
- Research Team :-
-- Artifical instrument design --
- The long-term aim is the creation of a numerical instrument which
is capable of producing interesting sounds, with the kinds of
local timbral variation which is found in natural instruments.
Current interest concentrates on the use on non-linear recurrence
relations to generate interesting sounds and envelopes.
- Research Team :-
-- Software for composition --
- Provision of a range of music software for composers who do not
have access to large university computers is a significant
component of the work, while not being research in the strict
sense. We concentrate on software for IBM-cloned
PCs, from 80286 to Pentium. The most significant tool is the Csound
language of Barry Vercoe (MIT Media Lab), which we have enhanced
with new utilities and expanded capabilities. We also are in
contact with the Macintosh implementors for Csound, and with Composers' Desktop
Project. More traditional composition is supported with the
Rosegarden notation editor and sequencer for X/Unix. This
will shortly be available on Windows3.1.
- Research Team :-
-- Available Software --
- There is a file server where many of the products of this
division are available for ftp, the Dream
server (Division for Research in Electro Acoustic Music)
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The server is maintained by John Fitch
This page is maintained by J.P.Fitch@bath.ac.uk
Last modified: Tue Dec 5 17:46:45 1995