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Spatial Sound Synthesis in Computer-Aided Composition*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2010

Marlon Schumacher  and
Jean Bresson
Marlon Schumacher*
Affiliation:
IDMIL – DCS – CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music of McGill University, 555 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal, QC, Canada E-mail: marlon.schumacher@music.mcgill.ca
Jean Bresson*
Affiliation:
IRCAM – CNRS UMR STMS, 1, place I. Stravinsky, 75002 Paris, France E-mail: jean.bresson@ircam.fr
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Abstract

In this article we describe our ongoing research and development efforts towards integrating the control of sound spatialisation in computer-aided composition. Most commonly, the process of sound spatialisation is separated from the world of symbolic computation. We propose a model in which spatial sound rendering is regarded as a subset of sound synthesis, and spatial parameters are treated as abstract musical materials within a global compositional framework. The library OMPrisma is presented, which implements a generic system for the control of spatial sound synthesis in the computer-aided composition environment OpenMusic.

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Organised Sound , Volume 15 , Issue 3: Sound ↔ Space: New approaches to multichannel music and audio , December 2010 , pp. 271 - 289
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