Score Following Using the Sung Voice
Miller Puckette · 1995
While finished peices of music have often relied on score following using the flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, and piano, little has been written or performed using the sung voice. Consequently, the special opportunities offered by combining the live, sung voice with state-of-the-art electronics remain largely unexplored. This paper describes the special challenges encountered when trying to use score following on the voice and some techniques that can partly overcome them. 1 Score following generalities Computers are capable of making a much wider range of sounds than one could possibly specify in real time. One important area of research in the field of computer music is how best to map the small amount of information which a live player is capable of expressing, into the much larger space of sounds the computer can generate in response. Among the many strategies which have been proposed, a special niche is occupied by so-called score following. Independently developed score follow...