Research Seminars

Macro Sound

Sinan Bökesoy
Université Paris VIII, France

19 May 2008, 14:30, Room 105

Abstract

Sound design has been a primary act, which has looked for unheard and never used before sound structures for musical composition. Sound composition becomes a system design, which generates models for material creation and algorithms for defining compositional processes. With appropriate combinatory approach one can render the passage between micro and macro structures while generating both complex timbral evolution and its emergent musical form. Continuous rendering of audio waveform on the lowest level with arising bottom-up organization of micro structures implements the emergent sonic behavior. For this purpose complex event generations models scales are proposed. They extend the known stochastic techniques for micro sound organization to a higher level of complexity by implementing non-linearity and self organization strategies. Application examples and compositional results will be shown along the presentation.

Biography

Sinan Bökesoy is a composer, currently completing his PhD at the music department of Université Paris VIII, France. He recently developed two sound design programs, Stochos and Cosmos that aim at integrating stochastic calculations in the design of sound structures. In contrast with micro sound approaches such as granular synthesis, Sinan's programs apply similar processes to the micro and the macro level, which enables the elaboration of sound structure on a larger time scale. Some of his compositions have been performed at NIME, ICMC, and included in the Computer Music Journal DVD edition. http://www.sonic-disorder.com/