Timbre-aware Interactive System
Performance excerpts

John Butcher, saxophones and feedback
Bill Hsu, computer

(live in the studio; no overdubs, minimal editing; slight compression before converting to MP3)

Excerpt 1 (Steim, Amsterdam, 8/03)

Excerpt 2 (Steim, Amsterdam, 8/03)

Excerpt 4 (Steim, Amsterdam, 8/03)

Excerpt 6 (Steim, Amsterdam, 8/03)

Piece 5 excerpt (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 5/06)

Examples of generating synthetic gestures from acoustic input

Acoustic saxophone gesture 1

filtered noise from gesture 1

saxophone roughness mapped to noise tremolo

saxophone brightness mapped to filter cutoff

waveguide bass clarinet from gesture 1

saxophone roughness mapped to embouchure tremolo

Acoustic saxophone gesture 2

comb filter with feedback from gesture 2

saxophone roughness mapped to feedback gain

saxophone brightness mapped to source noise bandwidth

waveguide bass clarinet from gesture 2

saxophone roughness mapped to embouchure tremolo