Dissonanzen für Fortgeschrittene
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Geigenautomat spielt Chopin
Wenn man nun auch >ernsthaft< Stücke der Neuen Musik, Ferneyhough, Sciarrino et al da spielen könnte, was wäre das.
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Language influences music harmony perception
Ein Longread für die Feiertage, Thema das mir zentral ist: Die Wahrnehmungsbeziehungen von Musik und Sprache, oder anders gesagt: von Klang und Konzept.
Abstract
Many studies have revealed shared music–language processing resources by finding an influence of music harmony manipulations on concurrent language processing. However, the nature of the shared resources has remained ambiguous. They have been argued to be syntax specific and thus due to shared syntactic integration resources. An alternative view regards them as related to general attention and, thus, not specific to syntax. The present experiments evaluated these accounts by investigating the influence of language on music. Participants were asked to provide closure judgements on harmonic sequences in order to assess the appropriateness of sequence endings. At the same time participants read syntactic garden-path sentences. Closure judgements revealed a change in harmonic processing as the result of reading a syntactically challenging word. We found no influence of an arithmetic control manipulation (experiment 1) or semantic garden-path sentences (experiment 2). Our results provide behavioural evidence for a specific influence of linguistic syntax processing on musical harmony judgements. A closer look reveals that the shared resources appear to be needed to hold a harmonic key online in some form of syntactic working memory or unification workspace related to the integration of chords and words. Overall, our results support the syntax specificity of shared music–language processing resources.
Stimm-Font aus Aufnahme erstellen
Die Software Lyrebird behauptet, sie könne aus nur einer Minute Stimmaufzeichnungen jegliche Formulierung und Intonation simulieren:
„Record 1 minute from someone’s voice and Lyrebird can compress her/his voice’s DNA into a unique key. Use this key to generate anything with its corresponding voice“.
Lyrebird will offer an API to copy the voice of anyone. It will need as little as one minute of audio recording of a speaker to compute a unique key defining her/his voice. This key will then allow to generate anything from its corresponding voice. The API will be robust enough to learn from noisy recordings. The following sample illustrates this feature, the samples are not cherry-picked.
Die Probleme, die das reibungslose Kopieren von Stimmen mit sich bringt, liegen auf der Hand und die InfoSec-Bruhahas sind nur die offensichtlichsten davon:
Researchers at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, led by Nitesh Saxena, were able to use Festvox to clone voices based on only five minutes of speech retrieved online. When tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorised access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s developers, reckons systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.
Die Entwickler von Lyrebird sind sich der Probleme ihrer Technologie bewusst, Snip von der Ethics-Section ihrer Website:
Voice recordings are currently considered as strong pieces of evidence in our societies and in particular in jurisdictions of many countries. Our technology questions the validity of such evidence as it allows to easily manipulate audio recordings. This could potentially have dangerous consequences such as misleading diplomats, fraud and more generally any other problem caused by stealing the identity of someone else.
By releasing our technology publicly and making it available to anyone, we want to ensure that there will be no such risks. We hope that everyone will soon be aware that such technology exists and that copying the voice of someone else is possible. More generally, we want to raise attention ab
Ob das nun scary ist oder nur ein im Grunde bekannter Gag, wie seit jeher Stimmimitatoren ihren Ulk betreiben, we’ll see. Verbunden mit der Lippensync-Technik könnte es schon ein weiterer Schritt sein in die Ununterscheidbarkeit von Realität und Fiktion.
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Extrapolate
In this hand drawn animation a line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.
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Atlas of Plucked Instruments
http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/index.htm
Schönes Online-Lexikon.
Oder siehe auch
http://www.mimo-international.com/MIMO/accueil-ermes.aspx
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The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art (1977)
Ein schöner, wichtiger Katalog (und toll, dass er publik gemacht wird), der aufzeigt, wie der Konzeptualismus einst aus der Musik heraus entstanden ist.
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, 4 December 1977 – 15 January 1978;