Opening mind by opening architecture: analysis strategies

Abstract:In numerical signal processing for electroacoustic composition, the progressive loss of specific development and research environments caused by the increasing use of digital market tools has favoured the dominance of the closed-architecture audio processor model. This model, while powerful, envisions the possibility of describing output data about its perceived characteristics, but at the cost of ignoring its internal process and interacting systems, which become complex, powerful environments but closed in an inscrutable black box, a loss we must consider. Any digital signal processing technique tells a story. Just as the words of a language incorporate social, historical and technical polysemic layers, a signal processor has its own story of implementation, a gradual technological achievement with its inevitable aesthetic consequences. Through the looking-glass of literature, one can access those environments with renewed awareness by reestablishing a scientific method and an attitude to research. In this specific case, starting from the case study of Manfred Schroeder's historical reverbs, we illustrate the process of building analytical evaluation tools, as well as practical implementation, at the basis of a conscious study path.

Computation and Language (cs.CL)

arXiv:2609.03719 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2609.03719v1 [cs.CL] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.03719 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

Proceedings of the 7th International Csound Conference (ICSC 2024), pp. 127 - 131, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 2024

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