Essays about: "timbre"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word timbre.
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1. Being Present with the Sound of Shakuhachi : Finding Tools for Composing Through Improvisation by Using Non-linearity to Focus on Time and Timbre on the Shakuhachi
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för folkmusikAbstract : The main goal of this thesis was to develop tools and methods for creating new music for the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi. Shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute, which has existed in Japan since the seventh century. READ MORE
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2. The Well Trained Algorithm : An exploration of the use of AI as a tool for musical expression
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriAbstract : The Well Trained Algorithm is a composition that challenges prevailing conceptions of the use of AI tools in music through the reconceptualising of JukeBox, a generative AI model for music, as an instrument in its own right. Here, I am coining the term ‘instrumentisation’ to describe a methodology for applying the qualities and associations of a musical instrument to a traditionally non-musical object. READ MORE
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3. The Texture Within : Exploring repetition, difference and timbre through solo piano playing
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för jazzAbstract : The goal of this master project was to create reverberant sound worlds on the border between acoustic and electronic sounds. I approached this goal through the exploration of musical repetition, difference and timbre. These fields were approximated both through practical and theoretical work. READ MORE
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4. Genre style transfer : Symbolic genre style transfer utilising GAN with additional genre-enforcing discriminators
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för informationsteknologiAbstract : Style transfer using Generative adversarial networks (GANs) has been successful in recent publications. One field in style transfer is music style transfer, in which a piece of music is transformed in some way, be it through genre-, harmonic-, rhythmic transfer, etc. READ MORE
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5. The beauty of sound : Timbre as grounds for aesthetic and artistic value in music
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetikAbstract : This thesis explores the concept of timbre through the lens of analytic philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of music. I argue that timbre should be thought of as providing the grounds for artistic and aesthetic values in music. To this end and firstly, I critique the physical sense of timbre in favour of two anti-realist senses of timbre. READ MORE