TY - GEN
T1 - Spectrail
T2 - 45th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2019 and International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYCEMF 2019
AU - Takakura, Yuriko
AU - Nakayama, Masanori
AU - Fujishiro, Issei
N1 - Funding Information:
The present work has been supported by the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation. This study is also supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H00737.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Yuriko Takakura et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - With the advent of computer technologies, composers have begun to use computers for their compositions. Among many new compositional techniques, sound analysis and synthesis is a fundamental process for creating new timbres. Accordingly, computer technologies have changed composers' actions during their compositions as well. Because they may forgo writing sketches and scores on paper, some studies point out that it is difficult to analyze the compositional process of music created with computers. To address this issue, we present a visual analytics system, Spectrail, to trace a compositional process made with sound analysis and synthesis using data taken from a software system, AudioSculpt. In this paper, after providing an overview of the latest version of Spectrail, the results of an empirical evaluation experiment with four composers who studied at IRCAM are presented. The actual analytics was performed with two aspects-one is how the composer used computers, and the other is how he changed the sounds during the composition. The results of the evaluation experiment show that the features in the compositional processes are clarified through visual analytics and that the system allows composers to look back on their compositional processes for future creation.
AB - With the advent of computer technologies, composers have begun to use computers for their compositions. Among many new compositional techniques, sound analysis and synthesis is a fundamental process for creating new timbres. Accordingly, computer technologies have changed composers' actions during their compositions as well. Because they may forgo writing sketches and scores on paper, some studies point out that it is difficult to analyze the compositional process of music created with computers. To address this issue, we present a visual analytics system, Spectrail, to trace a compositional process made with sound analysis and synthesis using data taken from a software system, AudioSculpt. In this paper, after providing an overview of the latest version of Spectrail, the results of an empirical evaluation experiment with four composers who studied at IRCAM are presented. The actual analytics was performed with two aspects-one is how the composer used computers, and the other is how he changed the sounds during the composition. The results of the evaluation experiment show that the features in the compositional processes are clarified through visual analytics and that the system allows composers to look back on their compositional processes for future creation.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 - International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
SP - 217
EP - 222
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 - International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
PB - International Computer Music Association
Y2 - 16 June 2019 through 23 June 2019
ER -