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Musical ideas, artist stories, and the questions shaping our instruments and research. 11 articles
AudioFit: fitting a physical-model piano to real recordings
AudioFit lets an agent measure an editable synth against recordings, test DSP hypotheses in the real engine and tune them. Our first target, a physical-model piano, isn’t there yet, but it taught us a lot.
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What makes a drum kit work?
A kit needs shared character and different musical roles. What that means for our drum-generation research, and the questions we’re taking to ISMIR and ADC.
What changes when an instrument becomes a pedal?
A footswitch gives your feet a musical role. Why our hardware experiments begin with the actions a player wants to make during a song.
AI for the people making music
The creative value of a generated idea becomes clearer when you try to change it. Why keeping what you like matters to Maru’s AI research.
From vocal chain to Sparklizer
How Jazz Calls Home’s recurring vocal effect became Sparklizer, and why an artist’s way of working can be the best starting point for a new tool.
An ambitious weekend at Montreal Music Hackspace
Felix joined fellow musicians, researchers, and makers to explore a MIDI loop generator, a morphing beatbox, and two hardware pedal targets in one ambitious weekend.
How Gamelan models bronze
Why a bronze instrument rings differently, how tuning and paired beating shape its character, and what a model makes available to a player.
Play the movement, not just the notes
A held note can brighten, swell, or begin to tremble. How camera gestures could give a performer another way to shape the phrase while their fingers keep playing.
Seeing intervals with Oscillo
A pure ratio and an equal-tempered interval can be close without being identical. Oscillo gives you a way to hear and watch the difference, then choose what it means for your music.
From chord names to a musical part
A progression is a starting point. Voicing, register, and rhythm turn it into a part, and those are the choices we want musical tools to help you explore.