Proceedings of the1996 International Computer Music Conference

Organised by

The International Computer Music AssociationandThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

August 19 - 24, 1996

Lydia Ayers, Conference ChairAndrew Horner, Conference Co-Chair

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword iWelcome from the ICMA President iiThe Paper Selection Process iiiAbout this Proceedings iiiConference Personnel ivPrevious Conferences viGeneral Conference Schedule vii

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PAPERS PROGRAM

Wednesday August 21

9:00 - 10:20 Paper Session la , Lecture Theatre A

Physical Modeling and Synthesis 1

9:00 An Improved Digital Waveguide Model of Flute - Implementation

IssuesVesa Valimaki, Rami Hanninen, Matti Karjalainen 1

9:25 Physical Modeling of Aeroacoustic Sources in Flute-like InstrumentsMarc-Pierre Verge 5

9:50 The 3D Tetrahedral Digital Waveguide Mesh with Musical ApplicationsScott Van Duyne, Julius Smith 9

9:00 - 9:50 Paper Session lb , Lecture Theatre B

Networking and the Web

9:00 MusicWeb, New Communication and Information Technologies in theMusic ClassroomCarola Bohm, Karst De Jong, Cristoph Hempel 17

9:25 NetMuse: a Very-High-Performance Wide-Area Network for MusicStephen Arnold 21

9:00 - 10:15 Demonstration la, Lecture Theatre G

Xspect: A New X/Motif Signal Visualization and Editing ProgramXavier Rodet, Dominique Francois, Guillaume Levy 25

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10:00 - 12:00 Poster Session 1, 5th floor

Room 5506 Graphical NeXTSTEP Objects as FTS Clients to Control Instrumentsin the new FTS Client/Server ArchitectureTodor Todoroff, Caroline Traube 28

Room 5505 Estimation of Parameters Corresponding to A Propagative SynthesisModel Through the Analysis of Real SoundsSolvi Ystad, Philippe Guillemain, Richard Kronland-Martinet 32

Room 5510 Evolution of Musical OrganismsBruno Degazio 36

Room 5509 Recent Developments of MidiShareDominique Fober, Stephane Letz, Yann Orlarey 40

Room 5504 Visualization and Manipulation of 3D Digital Waveguide Structuresfor Sound ExperimentationDavid Rossiter, Andrew Homer, George Baciu 43

Room 5503 Frankenstein: A Low-Cost Multi-DSP Computer Engine for the MusicKitWilliam Putnam, Timothy Stilson 47

Room 5501 Discrete Summation Synthesis and Hybrid Sampling-Wavetable Synthesisof Acoustic Instruments with Genetic AlgorithmsSan-Kuen Chan, Jennifer Yuen, Andrew Homer 49

Room 5508 Acoustic QuantaDouglas Nunn, Alan Purvis, Peter Manning 52

Room 5493 Exemplar-based Learning in Adaptive Optical Music RecognitionSystemIchiro Fujinaga 55

Room 5486 Haptic Feedback in a Computer Music Performance InterfaceLonny Chu 57

Room 5507 Learning Musical Structure and Style by Recognition, Predictionand EvolutionDominik Hornel, Thomas Ragg 59

10:30 - 11:45 Paper Session 2a, Lecture Theatre A

Graphical Environments

10:30 SEE - A Structured Event Editor: Visualizing Compositional Data

in Common MusicTobias Kunze, Heinrich Taube

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The Graphics Environment for MaxMark Danks

Towards A Framework for Handling Musical ExpressionDaniel Oppenheim, James Wright

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10:30 - 11:45 Paper Session 2b, Lecture Theatre B

Music Analysis and Recognition

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A System for the Separation of Simultaneous Musical Audio SignalsThomas Stainsby

Musical Analysis using a Real-Time Model of Peripheral HearingTim Brookes, Andy Tyrrell, David Howard

A Dynamic Modelling Approach to Music RecognitionSimon Dixon

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10:30 - 11:45 Demonstration 2a, Lecture Theatre F

Using SynthBuilder for the Creation of Physical ModelsNick Porcaro, Pat Scandalis, David Jaffe, Julius Smith 87

10:30 - 11:45 Demonstration 2b, Lecture Theatre G

Non-linear Controller Mapping for Gestural Control of GamakaStuart Favilla 89

13:30 - 15:30 Poster Session 2, 5th floor

Room 5508 DSP Approach to Multichannel Audio MixingVille Pulkki, Jyri Huopaniemi, Tommi Huotilainen, Matti Karjalainen

Room 5510 Recent Developments with the TAO Physical Modelling SystemMark Pearson, David Howard

Room 5506 Improved Modelling of Attack Transients in Music Analysis-ResynthesisPaul Masri, Andrew Bateman

Room 5507 Automated Music, Interdisciplinary Aspects of a DevelopmentalHistoryCarola Bohm

Room 5501 Real-Time Virtual Audio RealityLauri Savioja, Jyri Huopaniemi, Tommi Huotilainen, Tapio Takala

Room 5493 Perceptual Matching of Low-Order Models to Room Transfer FunctionsEric Mrozek, Gregory Wake field

Room 5509 A New Electronic Genre: the CD-ROMKristine Burns

Room 5505 A Look at Performer/Machine Interaction Using Real-Time SystemsCort Lippe

Room 5504 On the Use of Computer Systems in Contemporary MusicBarbara Becker, Gerhard Eckel

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Room 5486 Sound Database Retrieved by SoundShuji Hashimoto, Hat Qi, Dingding Chang 121

Room 5503 Adaptive Pitch Compensation of Singing and Its ApplicationYoshinari Sasahira, Shuji Hashimoto 124

14:00 - 14:50 Paper Session 3a, Lecture Theatre F

Presented Studio Reports 1

14:00 Durham Music Technology: Activity ReportTakebumi Itagaki, Simon Johnson, Peter Manning, Douglas Nunn,Desmond Phillips, Alan Purvis, Jonathan Spanier 126

14:25 The International Digital ElectroAcoustic Music Archive (IDEAMA)- Report/ The Target Collection (1929-70)Thomas Gerwin [No paper]

14:00 - 14:55 Paper Session 3b, Lecture Theatre B

Music Composition

14:00 Composer's Underscoring Environment (CUE)David Cope 129

14:25 NetNeg: A Hybrid Interactive Architecture for Composing PolyphonicMusic in Real TimeClaudia Goldman, Dan Gang, Jeffrey Rosenschein, Daniel Lehmann 133

14:00 - 15:15 Demonstration 3a, Lecture Theatre A

Extended Csound

Extended CsoundBarry Vercoe 141

NetSound: Realtime Audio from Semantic DescriptionsMichael Casey, Paris Smaragdis 143

Csound GM: Designing Real-Time Instruments with Csound's NewMIDI OpcodesRichard Boulanger, Scott Vercoe 144

14:00 - 15:15 Demonstration 3b, Lecture Theatre G

Automatic Jazz Accompaniment Computation: An Open Advice-BasedApproachMira Balaban, Stanislav Irish 145

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Thursday August 22

8:30 - 10:00 Poster Studio Reports, 5th floor

Room 5509 IBM Computer Music Center - Studio ReportJames Wright, Daniel Oppenheim

Room 5501 Studio Report: The Bregman Electronic Music Studio at DartmouthCollege and the MA Program in Electro-Acoustic MusicJon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Larry Polansky

Room 5504 Leeds University Electronic Studio: Studio ReportEwan Stefani, Kia Ng, David Cooper

Room 5510 DIEM, The Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music, Studio ReportWayne Siegel

Room 5508 Israel Computers and Music Forum - Activities ReportShlomo Dubnov

Room 5503 Computer Music in Shenzhen, P.R.ChinaYu Ying

Room 5505 Electroacoustic and Computer Music in Latin AmericaRicardo Dal Farra

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9:00 - 10:15 Paper Session 4a, Lecture Theatre A

Interaction and Sound Generation

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A New Method for Interactive Sound SpatialisationIain Mott, Jim Sosnin 169

An Environment for Interactive Art - Sensor Integration and ApplicationsHaruhiro Katayose, Tsutomu Kanamori, Seiji Inokuchi 173

Appropriated Musical Instruments: A4 MIDI Tool Box and CarnaticViolinGreg Schiemer, B. Krishnakumar 177

9:00 - 10:15 Paper Session 4b, Lecture Theatre B

Software Environments

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A C++ Library for Computer Music Programming on Real-Time MachAndrew Choi

The Evolution of the Graphic Editing Environment for the IRCAMMusical WorkstationEnzo Maggi, Francois Dechelle

New DSP Applications on FTSFrangois Dechelle, Maurizio De Cecco, Enzo Maggi,Norbert Schnell

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9:00 - 10:15 Demonstration 4a, Lecture Theatre F

Digital Notation Representation and Online Retrieval of MusicalInformation: A Discussion of Current Options and PracticesElizabeth Hinkle-Tumer 190

9:00 - 10:15 Demonstration 4b, Lecture Theatre G

Composing the Means With Which I Compose: Waveforms With MultiplePaths and Cycle-lengthsArun Chandra 194

10:00 - 12:00 Poster Session 3, 5th floor

Room 5509 Anitoo: Some Analysis ToolsDamian Keller 198

Room 5510 Design and Implementation of a Multimedia OperaJames Oliverio, Jarrell Pair 202

Room 5508 The Mathematical Implications of a Pulse-Ribbon Perceptual Organizationof PitchGregory Wakefield 204

Room 5504 The Analysis and Resynthesis of Sustained Musical Signals inthe Time DomainRoy Hung, N.H.C Yung, P.Y.S. Cheung 206

Room 5503 On the Perceptual Optimization of Synthetic Acoustical SystemsPaul Runkle, Gregory Wakefield 210

Room 5506 Self-Similar Grain Distribution: A Fractal Approach to GranularSynthesisDavid Chapman, Michael Clarke, Martin Smith, Paul Archbold 212

Room 5507 Towards SYnthia II: An Assessment of Design Strategies for ComputerAssisted Learning of Sound SynthesisMatthew Padden, Michael Clarke, Alan Dix, Mark Kirby 214

Room 5505 The Synthesis of Sung Vowels in Female Opera and Belt QualitiesMichelle Evans, David Howard 216

Room 5493 Robust Automated Music Transcription SystemsAndrew Sterian, Gregory Wakefield 219

Room 5486 Simulation of Electron Tube Audio CircuitsKai Lassfolk 222

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10:30 - 11:50 Paper Session 5a, Lecture Theatre A

Physical Modeling and Synthesis 2

10:30 Modeling and Control of Performance Expression in Digital WaveguideModels of Woodwind InstrumentsGary Scavone

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Physically Informed Sonic Modeling (PhISM): Percussive SynthesisPerry Cook

Body Modeling Techniques for String Instrument SynthesisMatti Karjalainen, Julius Smith

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10:30 - 11:45 Paper Session 5b, Lecture Theatre B

Music Representation and Analysis

10:30 Automated Motive-Oriented Analysis of Musical Corpuses: a JazzCase StudyPierre- Yves Rolland, Jean Gabriel Ganascia

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Representation of Jazz Piano Knowledge Using a Deductive Object-OrientedApproachKeiji Hirata

A Cognitive Model of Pattern Matching in MusicYuzuru Hiraga

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10:30 - 11:45 Demonstration 5a, Lecture Theatre G

Collage: Sound Colors Installation SoftwareMara Helmuth 251

10:30 - 11:45 Demonstration 5b, Lecture Theatre F

A Distributed, Object-Oriented Framework for Sound SynthesisGerhard Behles, Peter Lunden 253

13:30 - 15:30 Poster Session 4, 5th floor

Room 5506 SuperCollider, a New Real Time Synthesis LanguageJames McCartney

Room 5505 A Cognitive Model in Design of Musical InterfacesAnna So fie Christiansen

Room 5504 Cmix on Non-UNIX WorldAlistair Riddell, Ross Bencina

Room 5510 An Approach to a Latin American Computer MusicMartin Alejandro Fumarola

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Room 5503 A Flexible Real-Time Software Synthesis SystemRoger Dannenberg, Eli Brandt

Room 5508 GeNotator: An Environment for Investigating the Applicationof Genetic Algorithms in Computer Assisted CompositionKurt Thywissen

Room 5501 Musical Effects of Cross-Vocoding, Software ImplementedErez Webman, Uri Shimony, Zohar Poupko, Dalit Caspi, Moty Gerner

Room 5493 A System for the Musical Investigation and Expression of Levelsof Self-Similarity in an Arbitrary Data StreamDavid Rossiter, Wai- Yin Ng

Room 5486 POWERpv: A Suite of Sound ProcessorsEric Lyon

Room 5507 Real-time Granular Synthesis on a Distributed Multi-processorPlatformTakebumi Itagaki, Peter Manning, Alan Purvis

Room 5509 Musical Instrument Database with MultimediaTakashi Suzuki, Takako Tanaka, Kuniharu Tsuboi

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14:00 - 15:15 Paper Session 6a, Lecture Theatre A

Sound Analysis and Processing 1

14:00 Sound Signals Decomposition Using a High Resolution MatchingPursuitRemi Gribonval, Philippe Depalle, Xavier Rodet, Emmanuel Bacry,Stephane Mallat

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An Improved Additive Analysis Method Using Parametric Modellingof the Short-Time Fourier TransformPhilippe Depalle, Laurent Tromp

Critically Sampled Third Octave Filter BanksScott Levine

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14:00 - 14:50 Paper Session 6b, Lecture Theatre B

Human-Computer Interface Issues

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Extraction of Conducting Gestures in 3D SpaceForrest Tobey, Ichiro Fujinaga

Towards a Musician's Cockpit: Transducers, Feedback and MusicalFunctionRoel Vertegaal, Tamos Ungvary, Michael Kieslinger

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14:00 - 15:15 Demonstration 6a, Lecture Theatre F

Spatio-Temporal Patterning in Computer-Generated Music: A NodalNetwork ApproachPeter Mcllwain, Anthony Pietsch 312

14:00 - 15:15 Demonstration 6b, Lecture Theatre G

Advanced Granular Synthesis Techniques and their Real-time ImplementationGerhard Behles [No paper]

Friday August 23

9:00 - 9:50 Paper Session 7a, Lecture Theatre B

Music and Graphics

9:00 A Symbiosis of Animation and MusicRobert Pringle, Brian Ross 316

9:25 Towards a Universal Algorithmic System for Composition of Musicand Audio-Visual WorksJeremy Leach 320

9:00 - 10:15 Paper Session 7b, Lecture Theatre A

Sound Analysis and Processing 2

9:00 Sound Onset Localization and Partial Tracking in Gaussian WhiteNoiseLudger Solbach, Rolf Wohrmann 324

9:25 Effects Processing on Audio Subband DataScott Levine . 328

9:50 Finding Alternate Paths Through Sampled Sounds on a Sound FeatureMapGerhard Behles, Bernhard Feiten [No paper]

9:00 - 10:15 Demonstration 7a, Lecture Theatre G

Alias-Free Digital Synthesis of Classic Analog WaveformsTimothy Stilson, Julius Smith 332

9:00 - 10:15 Demonstration 7b, Lecture Theatre F

Macintosh Graphical Interface and Improvements to GeneralizedDiphone Control and SynthesisXavier Rodet, Adrien Lefevre 336

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10:00 - 12:00 Poster Session 5, 5th floor

Room 5504 OpenMusic ArchitectureGerard Assayag, Carlos Agon 339

Room 5505 Fractional Delay Lines using Lagrange InterpolatorsPhilippe Depalle, Stephan Tassart 341

Room 5503 Generating Musical Symbols to Perform Expressively by ApproximateFunctionsKenzi Noike, Nobuo Inui, Takashi Nose, Yoshiyuki Kotani 344

Room 5510 A Jazz Session System for Interplay Among All Players - VirJaSession (Virtual Jazz Session System)Masataka Goto, Isao Hidaka, Hideaki Matsumoto, Yosuke Kuroda,Yoichi Muraoka 346

Room 5506 A Modal Distribution Approach to Piano Analysis and SynthesisRowena Guevara, Gregory Wakefield 350

Room 5501 Synthesis and Analysis Tools with Physical Modeling: An Environmentfor Musical Sounds ProductionEric Incerti 352

Room 5508 Handwritten Music Manuscript RecognitionKia Ng, David Cooper, Roger Boyle 354

Room 5507 Camera Musica: Virtual Architecture as Medium for the Explorationof MusicGerhard Eckel 358

Room 5493 Physical Modelling of a Stiff String by Numerical IntegrationMichael Kurz, Bemhard Feiten 361

Room 5509 Computer Music by Women on Compact Disk: Technology as a Politicallyand/or Sonically Empowering ResourceRodney Waschka [No paper]

10:30 - 11:45 Paper Session 8a, Lecture Theatre A

Spatialized Sound and Soundfields

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A New Approach to HRTF Audio SpatializationMatija Marolt

Applying Psychoacoustic Principles to Soundfield ReconstructionSteven Trautmann

3-D Directional Cues for Atypical LocationsGary Kendall, Joe Pompei [No paper]

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10:30 - 11:50 Paper Session 8b, Lecture Theatre B

Spectra and Timbre

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The Timbral Object - An Alternative Route to the Control of TimbreSpaceDavid Creasey, David Howard, Andy Tyrrell

TIM(br)E: Compositional Approaches to FOG SynthesisMichael Clarke

Influence of Frequency Modulating Jitter on Higher Order Momentsof Sound Residual with Applications to Synthesis and ClassificationShlomo Dubnov, Naftali Tishby, Dalia Cohen

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10:30 - 11:15 Demonstration 8a, Lecture Theatre F

Applying ImprovisationBuilder to Interactive Composition withMIDI PianoWilliam Walker, Brian Belet 386

10:30 - 11:15 Demonstration 8b, Lecture Theatre G

Cooking with Csound: Wavetable Synthesis Recipes for Woodwindand Brass InstrumentsAndrew Homer, Lydia Ayers 390

13:30 - 15:30 Poster Session 6, 5th floor

Room 5503 Modelling Rhythm Perception by Continuous Time-Frequency AnalysisLeigh Smith

Room 5510 A Computer-Based Editor for Lerdahl and Jackendoff's RhythmicStructuresBruno Degazio

Room 5507 Analyzing the Moog VCF for Digital ImplementationTimothy Stilson, Julius Smith

Room 5506 Virtual Concert Performance - Synthetic Animated Musicians Playingin an Acoustically Simulated RoomRami Hanninen, Lauri Savioja, Tapio Takala

Room 5508 Experiments with Non-Linear FiltersRichard Dobson, John Ffitch

Room 5505 Authorship and Female Voices in Electrovocal MusicHannah Bosma

Room 5509 Background Music Generation Based on Scene AnalysisNaoyuki Onoe, Shuji Hashimoto, Dingding Chang

Room 5504 Creativity versus Determinism: Cognitive Science and Music Theoryas Touchstones of Automatic Music CompositionDetlev Zimmermann

Room 5501 TEMA: An "Open" Support Environment for Music CompositionBarry Eaglestone, Peter Lunden

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14:00 - 15:15 Paper Session 9a, Lecture Theatre A

New Performance Tools

14:00 Acceleration Sensor as an Input Device for Musical EnvironmentHideyuki Sawada, Naoyuki Onoe, Shuji Hashimoto 421

14:25 PadMaster: Banging on Algorithms with Alternative ControllersFernando Lopez-Lezcano 425

14:50 Musical Muscle Memory and the Haptic Display of Performance NuanceChris Chafe, Sile O'Modhrain 428

14:00 - 15:15 Paper Session 9b, Lecture Theatre B

Synthesis Issues

14:00 A Real-Time Analysis and Resynthesis Instrument for Transformationof Sounds in the Frequency DomainTodor Todoroff 432

14:25 Exploring Instrument Constancy Through a New Method for the Designof Synthetic InstrumentsGregory Wakefield, Mary Simoni 436

14:50 Chaos and Non-Linear ModelsAmi Radunskaya 440

Saturday August 24

9:00 - 9:50 Paper Session 10a, Lecture Theatre G

Physical Modeling and Synthesis 3

9:00 Adaptive Control of a Vocal Chord and Vocal Tract for ComputerizedMechanical Singing InstrumentsHideyuki Sawada, Shuji Hashimoto 444

9:25 Physical Models of Trumpet-like Instruments, Detailed Behaviorand Model ImprovementsXavier Rodet, Christophe Vergez 448

9:00 - 10:15 Paper Session 10b, Lecture Theatre B

Music Analysis and Modeling Issues

9:00 Modeling the Degree of Realized Expectation in Functional TonalMusic: A Study of Perceptual and Cognitive Modeling Using NeuralNetworksDan Gang, Jonathan Berger 454

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Physical Motion as a Metaphor for Timing in Music: The FinalRitardPeter Desain, Henkjan Honing

On the Use of an Effective Boltzmann Machine for Musical StyleRecognition and HarmonisationMathew Bellgard, Chi-Ping Tsang

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9:00 - 10:15 Demonstration 9a, Lecture Theatre F

Quad Pan, Spatialization System of Music in LiveIsidoro Perez, Javier Arias, Pablo Fernandez,Luciano Perez 465

10:00 - 12:00 Poster Session 7, 5th floor

Room 5501 Computer Performance of Piano Music with Normative DataTakayuki Hoshishiba, Susumu Horiguchi, Ichiro Fujinaga [No paper]

Room 5503 An Object-Oriented Approach to the Combination of Rule-Basedand Generative Algorithmic Composition Methods for Real-TimeInteractive ApplicationsTony Myatt 469

Room 5504 A 'Pick and Mix' Approach to the Integration of Composition ToolsBarry Eaglestone, Peter Lunden 471

Room 5505 The Impact of Fractals, Chaos, and Complexity Theory on ComputerMusic Composition

. Mladen Milicevic 473

Room 5506 Musical Instrument Transient Analysis and Re-SynthesisAnna Katrami, Peter Comerford 477

Room 5507 Machine Learning of Sound Attributes: Computer-Assistance inConcept Formation and Musical InventionEduardo Reck Miranda 479

Room 5508 Visualized Music Expression in an Object-Oriented EnvironmentRumi Hiraga, Shigeru Igarashi, Yohei Matsuura 483

Room 5509 Music and TechnologyFrank Pecquet 487

Room 5510 Time-Stretching of Hyper-Resonated Sound Using a Real-Time GranulationTechniqueBarry Truax 491

10:30 - 11:45 Paper Session l l a , Lecture Theatre B

Music and Signal Processing Pot-Pourri

10:30 Optimisations of the FOF Algorithm for VLSI ImplementationJonathan Robert Spanier, Simon Johnson, Alan Purvis 493

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Multirate Additive SynthesisDesmond Phillips, Alan Purvis, Simon Johnson

Wavelet Analysis for Onset DetectionCrawford Tait, William Findlay

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Presented Studio Reports 2

10:30 Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) StudioReportAlex Igoudin, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano

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The Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE)Jo Ann Kuchera-Morin, Stephen Pope, Kenneth Fields

Studio Report: The Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew UniversityDan Gang

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Author Index

Subject Index

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