Evolutionary Sound Design and composition for the Nord Lead 4
Summary
Palle Dahlstedt has in his research developed novel evolutionary sound design tools. These have been brought to market in collaboration with leading synth brand Nord. Here, he has designed a large set of synth sounds and composed music to demonstrate the capabilities.
Supported by
The sound design tools used for this have been developed within the research projects Potential Music and Creative Performance, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR).
Description of project
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Type of work
A set of free synthesizer sounds/programs and music
Published in
www.nordkeyboards.com (downloadable for all users of this particular instrument, in the thousands).
www.soundcloud.com (at this point more than 33.000 listens).
Two of the miniature pieces were used in the dance-theatre performance 20xLamentation by Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, performed 5 times in May 2013, at 3:e Våningen, Göteborg, Sweden.
Link to web site
http://www.nordkeyboards.com/main.asp?tm=Sound%20Libraries&cllibr=Product_Libraries&cplib=Nord_Lead_4
https://soundcloud.com/nordkeyboards/nord-lead-4-demo-pd
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Date
2013Creator
Dahlstedt, Palle
Keywords
Sounds design
Evolutionary computation
Evolutionary algorithms
Genetic algorithm
Interactive evolution
Aesthetic evolution
Sound synthesis
Publication type
artistic work