Control of Sound Synthesis for Musical Composition

The technology used for sound synthesis and signal processing have made it possible to imagine significant, even new, possibilities for composition. In this prospect, new functions have been developed in the OpenMusic environment to include these technologies in the context of the compositional process. Several specialized libraries make it possible to connect programs created in a computer-assisted composition environment with processes for sound processing or synthesis (connected by IRCAM tools such as SuperVP, Pm2, CHANT, or Modalys).

Bringing the domain of sound synthesis and computer-assisted composition together is a new approach to the representation of sounds via high-level programs that put structures of abstract data and models of advanced temporal stuctures to work, permitting total control of the processes of sound processing and generation of synthesis data.

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