Week 9
Welcome to the blog for my Creative Practice Music Project at the University of Edinburgh. This blog outlines the six month development of this project between October 2018 and April 2019. For an explanation of the mechanics the Fourier Transform and the code used, refer to the writeup that accompanies the project download.
Between electing to take this on this project in mid-October and today, I have engaged in research for the project. James McCellen, Ronald Schafer and Mark Yoder’s book Signal Processing First proved to be immensely insightful. Through reading this book and enrolling on the module ‘Musical Applications of Fourier Theory and Digital Signal Processing’, I have been able to learn about the intricacies of the of the Discrete Short Time Fourier Transform (DSTFT) before thinking about how it will be applied in Max. I am glad that I have a fundamental understanding of the process, which I’m sure will prove useful further down the line.
Pieces of work that I would recommend to anyone interested in this topic:
Jean François-Charles‘ article ‘A Tutorial on Spectral Sound Processing Using Max/MSP and Jitter’.
Luke Dubois‘ ‘jitter_pvoc_2D’, which is located in the example directory in Max 8 (/Users/jack/Library/Application Support/Cycling ’74/Max 8/Examples/jitter-examples/audio/jitter_pvoc).
Tadej Droljc‘s project ‘Sonographic Sound Processing’ and accompanying YouTube video.
ICRAM’s Audio Sculpt
Michael Klingbeil’s SPEAR
