“…An inspiration for our approach is the concept of timbre space (Grey 1977;Wessel 1979;McAdams 1999), which proposes a multidimensional space of audio features as a The resulting method, corpus-based concatenative synthesis (CBCS) (Schwarz 2006(Schwarz , 2007, is based on audio content descriptor analysis of any number of pre-existing or live-recorded sounds, and synthesis is guided by selection and playback of sound segments from the database, matching user-chosen sound characteristics. It has been used in various contexts of music composition (Einbond et al 2009(Einbond et al , 2016(Einbond et al , 2021, live performance (Schwarz 2012), sound design, and installation (Savary et al 2012). It allows exploration of a corpus of sounds interactively by composing paths in a multi-dimensional timbre space model, and thus to create timbral evolutions while maintaining the richness and detail of the original sounds.…”