Control of Sound Synthesis

The computer-aided composition approach brings together musical and computing formalisms and provides programming languages as means for the development of compositional processes. It puts forward an interactive approach from the composer regarding these processes, which can be related to the notion of compositional modelling. The use of sound synthesis in music and the general idea of "writing" sound as part of compositional processes led us to apply this approach to the conception of sounds, considering sound as the object of a compositional model, represented as a program uniting musical data description and processing.

• Computer-Aided Composition
• Control of sound spatialization
• OM-Chant: Control of Chant synthesis in OpenMusic

• J. Bresson, La synthèse sonore en composition musicale assistée par ordinateur. Modélisation et écriture du son. PhD Thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie / Paris 6. EDITE de Paris, 2007. Supervisor: Carlos Agon. IRCAM - CNRS UMR STMS

• J. Bresson, C. Agon (2007) Musical Representation of Sound in Computer-Aided Composition: A Visual Programming Framework. Journal of New Music Research, 36(4). [preprint]

• J. Bresson, M. Stroppa, C. Agon (2005) Symbolic Control of Sound Synthesis in Computer-Assisted Composition. Proc. International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
• J. Bresson (2006) Sound Processing in OpenMusic. Proc. International Conference on Digital Audio Effects - DAFx-06, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• J. Bresson, C. Agon (2006) Temporal Control over Sound Synthesis Processes. Proc. Sound and Music Computing Conference - SMC'06, Marseille, France.
• J. Bresson, C. Agon (2009) Synthèse sonore et composition musicale: Problématiques et outils d'écriture électroacoustique. EMS'09 (Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference), Buenos Aires.

OMChroma is a compositonal framework integrated in OpenMusic adapted from composer Marco Stroppa's Chroma system. OMChroma uses a matrix representations as control structures and provides powerful high-level procedures for the design and exploration of sound synthesis processes.

OMChroma is distributed as an external OM library by the IRCAM forum.

Jean Bresson, Carlos Agon, Marco Stroppa (Musikhochschule Stuttgart), Serge Lemouton.

• C. Agon, J. Bresson, M. Stroppa (2011) OMChroma: Compositional Control of Sound Synthesis, Computer Music Journal, 35(2).

• C. Agon, M. Stroppa, G. Assayag (2000) High Level Musical Control of Sound Synthesis in OpenMusic, Proc. International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, Germany.
• M. Stroppa (2000) High-level musical control paradigms for Digital Signal Processing, Proc. Int. Conf. on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-00), Verona, Italy.
• M. Stroppa, S. Lemouton, C. Agon (2002) OMChroma; vers une formalisation compositionnelle des processus de synthèse sonore, Actes des Journées d'Informatique Musicale - JIM'02, Marseille, France.
• J. Bresson, M. Stroppa, C. Agon (2007) Generation and Representation of Data and Events for the Control of Sound Synthesis, Proc. Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC'07, Lefkada, Greece.