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Chorus digitalis: experiment in chironomic choir singing

Chorus digitalis: experiment in chironomic choir singing

Le Beux, Sylvain, Feugère, Lionel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0883-5224 and d'Alessandro, Christophe (2012) Chorus digitalis: experiment in chironomic choir singing. In: 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011). International Speech Communications Association, pp. 2016-2019. ISBN 978-1618392701

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Abstract

This paper reports on experiments in real-time gestural control of voice synthesis. The ability of hand writing gestures for controlling singing intonation (chironomic singing synthesis) is studied. In a first part, the singing synthesizer and controller are described. The system is developed in an environment for multi-users music synthesis, allowing for synthetic choir singing. In a second part, performances of subjects playing with the system are analyzed. The results show that chironomic singers are able to control melody with accuracy, to perform vibrato, portamento and other types of fine-grained intonation variations, and to give convincing musical performances.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings: 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011)
Uncontrolled Keywords: singing synthesis, intonation, gesture control, performative synthesis
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Q Science > Q Science (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Engineering & Science
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Agriculture, Health & Environment Department
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2019 09:48
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/24574

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