Words, movement and timbre

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 276-279

  McLean, Alex ^a   Wiggins, Geraint ^a  

^a Department of Computing Goldsmiths College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Timbre; Vocable synthesis

Indexed keywords

MUSIC;

ELECTRONIC MUSIC; MUSIC INTERFACES; MUSIC PERFORMANCE; MUSICAL SOUNDS; PHONETIC SYMBOLS; PHYSICAL MODELING SYNTHESIS; TIMBRE; VOCABLE SYNTHESIS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 84873396909     PISSN: 22204792     EISSN: 22204806     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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