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Generative Audio Design: Emergent Sound Art for an Open World Interface

Abstract

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Hearing process exposes the movement of audio; ice melts into a liquid - into a gas of overtones. What is perceived as music and what is perceived as sound emerges into a coexistent designed world of audio, sandbox style. Using Ableton Live, a MIDI controller and keyboard with a MacBook Pro and iPad, I explore the boundaries of sound and music and discover an evolving role in real-time. Listen how the function of audio becomes in conversation with a non-linear form for the interactive space generated.

Hearing process exposes the movement of audio; ice melts into a liquid - into a gas of overtones. What is perceived as music and what is perceived as sound emerges into a coexistent designed world of audio, sandbox style. Using Ableton Live, a MIDI controller and keyboard with a MacBook Pro and iPad, I explore the boundaries of sound and music and discover an evolving role in real-time. Listen how the function of audio becomes in conversation with a non-linear form for the interactive space generated.

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