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A description of a practical workshop for users of the MIDIM8X system is given followed by a report on some concert activities over the past four years and commentary on a few compositions composed using the MIDIM system. The descriptions are both short and informal and where necessary the reader is referred to sources for more detailed information. THE PRACTICUMYou might imagine after reading through the theory concerning the MIDIM system that it is a horror to teach and that anyone making the attempt to come to terms with it will remain stranded in theoretical questions and never reach the stage where they may begin to work practically. This has been shown by experience not to be the case.The programs which comprise the system (see Fig. 1), of which we will concern ourselves here with the Descriptor and the Predicator programs, are set up in such a way that the user encounters a series of high level questions (actually a questionnaire) to fill in as they work their way through the programs. The above mentioned programs are constructive programs which give the user the possibility of creating sounds. Of the two the Predicator program is the most unfamiliar and therefore the most difficult. The terminology is sometimes less accessible at first but once the vocabulary has been learnt one can handle the questions with relative ease. It is also the case that the results are always well-formed and the domains within which one must work are clearly defined, which allows the user to work without undue attention needing to be devoted to technical problems.In order for users to reach this point a practicum course was given by myself and Jos Janssen for two years at the Institute for Sonology of the University of Utrecht. The course was set up in such a way that the morning classes of Dr. Kaegi dealt with some item of the theory and then in the afternoon class Jos and I would work through the system with the students in order to give practical examples of the items discussed in the morning (see Fig. 2).It is important to point out that none of the composer-students had any acquaintance with the system prior to attending the classes and yet by the end of the year they were able to open up individual projects resulting in many of the Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 04:09 26 December 2014 164 PAUL GOODMAN PREDICATORx program | user defined programs| | DESCRIPTORx program| PREDICATORx file | user defined programs I DESCRIPTORx file MIDIMx handler VOSIMx file VOSIMx generator «=»/ di Fig. 1. Survey of the MIDIM system cases in completed compositions which were of high enough quality to be given in concert.In general one nearly always begins with the Predicator program which is to say with a concrete sound and then commences to work on the Descriptor level (macro-level) but by experience we found it more convenient to introduce the system by means of the Descriptor program and then to work our way towards the construction of the sounds themselves in the Predicator program.As was stated above, the terminology of the Descript...
A description of a practical workshop for users of the MIDIM8X system is given followed by a report on some concert activities over the past four years and commentary on a few compositions composed using the MIDIM system. The descriptions are both short and informal and where necessary the reader is referred to sources for more detailed information. THE PRACTICUMYou might imagine after reading through the theory concerning the MIDIM system that it is a horror to teach and that anyone making the attempt to come to terms with it will remain stranded in theoretical questions and never reach the stage where they may begin to work practically. This has been shown by experience not to be the case.The programs which comprise the system (see Fig. 1), of which we will concern ourselves here with the Descriptor and the Predicator programs, are set up in such a way that the user encounters a series of high level questions (actually a questionnaire) to fill in as they work their way through the programs. The above mentioned programs are constructive programs which give the user the possibility of creating sounds. Of the two the Predicator program is the most unfamiliar and therefore the most difficult. The terminology is sometimes less accessible at first but once the vocabulary has been learnt one can handle the questions with relative ease. It is also the case that the results are always well-formed and the domains within which one must work are clearly defined, which allows the user to work without undue attention needing to be devoted to technical problems.In order for users to reach this point a practicum course was given by myself and Jos Janssen for two years at the Institute for Sonology of the University of Utrecht. The course was set up in such a way that the morning classes of Dr. Kaegi dealt with some item of the theory and then in the afternoon class Jos and I would work through the system with the students in order to give practical examples of the items discussed in the morning (see Fig. 2).It is important to point out that none of the composer-students had any acquaintance with the system prior to attending the classes and yet by the end of the year they were able to open up individual projects resulting in many of the Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 04:09 26 December 2014 164 PAUL GOODMAN PREDICATORx program | user defined programs| | DESCRIPTORx program| PREDICATORx file | user defined programs I DESCRIPTORx file MIDIMx handler VOSIMx file VOSIMx generator «=»/ di Fig. 1. Survey of the MIDIM system cases in completed compositions which were of high enough quality to be given in concert.In general one nearly always begins with the Predicator program which is to say with a concrete sound and then commences to work on the Descriptor level (macro-level) but by experience we found it more convenient to introduce the system by means of the Descriptor program and then to work our way towards the construction of the sounds themselves in the Predicator program.As was stated above, the terminology of the Descript...
For a number of years the author has been occupied with the investigation of movements of the mouth and the accompanying speech sounds of Dutch interjections with the purpose of synthesizing with a computer the sounds and images for a video film of "speaking heads". In this article some aspects of speech synthesis are touched upon which can be realized with the help of the MIDIM/ VOSIM-system. The phenomena of the 'auditive pause', the so-called 'joint' for bridging quick and strong formant springs and the analysis and synthesis (via D-comprehensors) of vowels in the interjections are also shown.
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