1. Automatic Orchestration in Practice
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Grégoire Carpentier, Marc Garcia Vitoria, Kenji Sakai, Eric Daubresse, and Fernando Villanueva
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business.industry ,Computer science ,Speech recognition ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Space (commercial competition) ,Computer Science Applications ,Software ,Human–computer interaction ,Perception ,Small range ,Media Technology ,Imitation (music) ,Orchestration (computing) ,Set (psychology) ,business ,Timbre ,Music ,media_common - Abstract
We report here on the recent use of the Orchidée software by three different young composers in various compositional and instrumental contexts. Orchidée is a computer-aided orchestration environment designed to aid musicians exploring the space of instrument timbre mixtures and finding timbre combinations that fit a set of user-specified perceptual requirements. The first beta version of the software was released by the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique's (IRCAM's) Music Representations Group in 2009, after four years of intensive research, and it can already handle a small range of real-life situations, typically timbre imitation or orchestral synthesis, under instrumental constraints. Detailed examples, including score and audio excerpts, are provided. more...
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- 2012
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