Control strategies for navigation of complex sonic spaces
Doug Van Nort, Marcelo M. Wanderley · 2007
This paper describes musical experiments aimed at designing control structures for navigating complex and continuous sonic spaces. The focus is on sound processing techniques which contain a high number of control parameters, and which exhibit subtle and interesting micro-variations and textural qualities when controlled properly. The examples all use a simple low-dimensional controller - a standard graphics tablet - and the task of initimate and subtle textural manipulations is left to the design of proper mappings, created using a custom toolbox of mapping functions. This work further acts to contextualize past theoretical results by the given musical presentations, and arrives at some conclusions about the interplay between musical intention, control strategies and the process of their design.