Despite of the ever-expanding variety of technological means accessible to composers, performers, orchestrators, music producers, and music pedagogues of our time, the essence of music composing has mostly remained the same for centuries: the key question is, how to form an artistically innovative core idea of a musical piece and to find the most ideal instruments for it? This paper discusses composers’ explorations on establishing their individual voices, as well as finding and selecting the tools and techniques that would best serve their artistic goals in today's complex and pluralistic network of aesthetics.

Dr. Maria Kalionpää, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Berndt, Mag. rer. nat., Dipl.-Psy. Hans-Peter Gasselseder, wissenschaftlicher Artikel zur XXV Generative Art Conference - GA2023

An arpeggiator is a system that takes in input notes (or chords) and breaks them up into sequences, so-called arpeggios. While typical MIDI arpeggiators receive and produce MIDI messages Arpeggiatorum allows for an audio signal to be the input of the system, performing monoor poly-phonic pitch estimation. Arpeggiatorum is also specifically designed to work with pipe organs. In this contribution we present the architecture of Arpeggiatorum, highlighting the design choices that lead to the development of specific features, and its strengths and current limitations. We will focus our attention on the possibility to use an audio input, for example a voice, or multiple voices, to control the system, and the new musical possibilities that emerge. We discuss the impact that of some of the most crucial parameters, namely accuracy and delay of the audio input have on the performances and suitability of the system.

Berndt, A., & Mauro, D. A. (2024, July 6)

Edirom Summer School

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