A music beat tracker is a procedure that is able to extract the times where a human would clap or tap when he or she listens to a piece of music. Automatic transcription of music genre classification use extensively this kind of information for improve their results. Onset detection is an important tool for beat […]
This project shows the bases of the sonification process, a current research field for the analysis and interpretation of information, proposing three designs in different abstraction levels: a first design to show the basis, a design to map images for machinery control and visual impaired to sounds in a virtual environment, and a third one […]
The aim of this project is to study the process of designing sound for a low-budget movie in a multi-channel format, given the constraints that a low-budget sonorization may impose on the task. The technical report of this work faces the question of which are the basic infrastructure (technical, organizative and human) to make a […]
The aim of this project is to implement a basic system of chord detection in music audio signals. From them, the chromagram is extracted and compared with a series of patterns that are characteristic of the chords to be estimated. The comparison is made through a similarity measure and different ways of creating the patterns […]
This project intends to provide a procedural background music generator for video games. The developed software works as a system of algorithmic composition based on player emotions during the gameplay, and it works independently of the game engine through an abstraction layer.
Given a chord sequence to be played on a guitar, this prototype tool provides a way to play it on a standard guitar, such that the amount of hand movements on the fretboard is near-optimal. The protoype has been implemented as an expert system using Case Based Reasoning (CBR). Given a database of cases describing […]
The main aim of this project is to develop an application capable of showing the possibilities of many different algorithmic composition methods for non experts users, that can use the musical compositions in their own projects. The final application contains seven different algorithmic composition methods with a simple user interface and many possibilities of use.
The assistant for twelve-tone music composition is a set of software layers on several technologies, including OpenMusic and Python, to create twelve-tone compositions using the restrictions imposed by the user. The system is capable of obtain a twelve-tone series based on a seed proposed, fulfilling also certain restrictions for then get all series derived from […]
This project aims to digitize the sound emitted by an electro-acoustic instrument to be able to act as a controller for a synthesis system or for a MIDI sequencer. This way, the expansion of timbral possibilities is unlimited, controlled in real-time by a tradicional musical instrument. This also applies to the musician's experimental capability and […]
This project aims to design and implement an FM syhtesizer that can be applied to teach this kind of technique, providing both the theoretical background and an interface for the student to observe the effect that the parameters have on the synthesized sound. The synthesizer has been implemented with Csound and the graphical interface with […]