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Member Since: 5/8/2006
Band Website: silverantrecords.com
Band Members: ***STINKROCKET***
PAJAMABOTTOM***
HOOKHEAD***
extra elves***
Influences: they learned to laugh,
now they’re learning to
laugh at you..
Sounds Like: In this musical combo, we present a statistical learning algorithm for synthesizing new random instances of a sound texture given an example of such a texture as input. A large class of natural and artificial sounds such as rain, waterfall, traffic noises, people babble, machine noises, etc., can be regarded as sound textures--sound signals that are approximately stationary at some scale. Treating the input sound texture as a sample of a stochastic process, we construct a tree representing a hierarchical wavelet transform of the signal. From this tree, new random trees are generated by learning and sampling the conditional probabilities of the paths in the original tree. Transformation of these random trees back into signals results in new sound textures that closely resemble the sonic impression of the original sound source but without exactly repeating it. Applications of this method are abundant and include, for example, automatic generation of sound effects, creative musical and sonic manipulations, and virtual reality sonification. Examples are visually demonstrated on the stage and acoustically demonstrated in the accompanying myspace site and compact digital discs.
Record Label: SILVER ANT RECORDS & PORK RECORDS of NE OHIO
Type of Label: Indie