Retexture — Towards Interactive Environmental Sound Texture Synthesis through Inversion of Annotations
Résumé
We present a way to make environmental recordings controllable again by the use of continuous annotations of the high-level semantic parameter one wishes to control, e.g. "wind strength" or "crowd excitation level". The annotations serve as a descriptor in corpus-based concatenative synthesis. The workflow has been evaluated by a preliminary subject test and first results on the canonical correlation analysis show high consistency between annotations and a small set of audio descriptors being well correlated with them.