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Building a transducer Orchestra

Building a transducer Orchestra

May 14, 2016 · by danielformo · in Instrument

For some time now I have been working with transducer speakers mounted on acoustic instruments as a kind of hybrid electroacoustic blend that bridges the different sonic realms of the virtual and invisible wall of loudspeaker sound and the physical…

Talking Drums

Talking Drums

February 23, 2015 · by danielformo · in Performances, Studies

Before setting up an “orchestra” consisting of several different instruments, I wanted to explore some possibilities one instrument at a time. This series of improvised studies explore the sounds produced by mounting exciter speakers onto drums and cymbals, playing back…

Piano conversations

Piano conversations

February 17, 2015 · by danielformo · in Performances, Studies

After recording some improvisations using my current system involving the mechanical midi piano, I felt the urge to engage in a more direct musical dialogue with the material I was creating. I made these short piano duos with the mechanical…

First sounds

First sounds

October 20, 2014 · by danielformo · in Instrument, Performances

This is my very first go at improvising with a small “orchestra of speech”, consisting of a mechanical piano, my “acoustic drum machine” setup and some software synthesis played back through a transducer attached to the piano sound board. The…

Acoustic sound sources

Acoustic sound sources

October 20, 2014 · by danielformo · in Instrument

Early on in this project I had no clear idea of which sounds or instruments would suit my conception of a speech derived music. During software development I only used very simple sonification like pure sine and noise synthesis, and…

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  • Instrument (6)
  • Performances (14)
  • Presentations (4)
  • Reflection (12)
  • Studies (8)
  • Writings (3)

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CONTENTS

  • PROJECT OUTLINE
    • Introduction
    • Background
  • WORK AND RESULTS
    • Speech gestures as material
    • Methods of abstraction
    • Software Instrument system
    • Sound and Orchestration
    • Performance methods
    • Final Artistic Results
  • REFLECTIONS
    • Design and development
    • Possibilities and limitations
    • Speech sources and concept
    • Perception of speech and music
    • Form, meaning and language
    • Reflections on the results
  • APPENDIX
    • Essay on Artistic Research
    • Technical background
  • RESOURCES
    • References
    • Downloads
    • Research blog
    • Symposium videos

This site presents the doctoral artistic research project The Music of Language and Language of Music by Daniel Formo. The project was carried out between 2013-2017 at the Music Department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, as a part of the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme.

Contact: daniel.formo [at] ntnu.no

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