Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
PureData Convention 2011

PDCON:Conference/Music in expression - A DSP based compositional methodology

Music in expression – AArchitektur - sometimes the letter A simply refers to the faculty of architecture DSPDigital Signal Processing – Digitale Signalverarbeitung based compositional methology

Author: Chun Lee

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Composing music in Pure Data, or in any other similar programming languages, conventionally involves the use of a (discrete) messaging system for ryhthmic sequencing and audio rate signals for sound synthesis. While such a combination serves its purpose well and has its merits, the aim of this paper will attempt to outline an alternative approach – using audio signals only for creating both time related events and sound synthesis – and discuss various interesting factors which arise.


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