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2004
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Swarm Granulator

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Swarm Granulator
Abstract. This paper describes a Swarm Granulator, a new application of particle swarms to sound synthesis. Granulation, an established technique in sound synthesis, depends on many parameters which are non-intuitive and hard to control from a human perspective. It is proposed here that a particle swarm can organize these parameters and produce musically interesting and novel timbres. A crucial element of the system is the self-organization of grain parameters around attractors which themselves represent musical events and textures in an external environment. This means that Swarm Granulator is interactive, and not merely reactive.
Tim Blackwell, Michael Young
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where EVOW
Authors Tim Blackwell, Michael Young
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