Essays about: "Timbre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word Timbre.

  1. 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 folkmusik

    Author : Sakari Heikka; [2023]
    Keywords : shakuhachi; compositional methods; improvisation; Japan; timbre; non-linearity; micro-phenomenology; silence;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 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 musikteori

    Author : Muiredach O'Riain; [2023]
    Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; AI; Machine Learning; ML; Generative Music; J. S. Bach; LaMonte Young; The Well Tempered Clavier; The Well Tuned Piano; Tuning System; Instrumentisation;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 3. The Texture Within : Exploring repetition, difference and timbre through solo piano playing

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för jazz

    Author : Anna Wohlfarth; [2023]
    Keywords : solo piano; improvisation; live electronics; deep listening; repetition; timbre; texture; minimalism; ambient music;

    Abstract : 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

  5. 4. Genre style transfer : Symbolic genre style transfer utilising GAN with additional genre-enforcing discriminators

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för informationsteknologi

    Author : Leif Sulaiman; Sebastian Larsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Generative Adversarial Network; Variational Autoencoder; CycleGAN; Music; Style Transfer; Neural Network;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 5. The beauty of sound : Timbre as grounds for aesthetic and artistic value in music

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Ben Mc Hugh; [2022]
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    Abstract : 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