{"id":4552,"date":"2010-11-03T23:34:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2010-11-03T23:34:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:34:57","slug":"music-for-bionic-ears-one-sight-two-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2010\/11\/music-for-bionic-ears-one-sight-two-sounds.html","title":{"rendered":"Music For Bionic Ears: One Sight, Two Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a little segment about the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2010\/09\/music-for-bionic-ears.html\">Music For Bionic Ears<\/a><\/em><\/strong> project on Australian TV recently, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/arts\/stories\/s3051873.htm\">can be watched online<\/a>. (I can see it in the UK, so I guess everyone can.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/arts\/stories\/s3051873.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/bionic01a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Watch Art Nation clip.\" width=\"410\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-content\/uploads\/bionic01a.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-content\/uploads\/bionic01a-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded two of the studies I&#8217;ve made for the project for you to listen to, working with the 16-tone tuning system.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/music\/files\/Ben_Harper_-_Bionic_Ear_Study_No_1.mp3\"><strong>Bionic Ear Study No. 1<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/music\/files\/Ben_Harper_-_Bionic_Ear_Study_No_2.mp3\"><strong>Bionic Ear Study No. 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Study No. 1<\/em><\/strong> was made by filtering white noise into the 22 frequency bands used in the design of a cochlear implant. This was done using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiomulch.com\/help\/contraption_ref\/Nebuliser.htm\">filtered granular synthesis<\/a> contraption in AudioMulch. The filtered sounds produced were mimicked by a (virtual) piano, retuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2010\/10\/tuning-update.html\">the 16-tone scale<\/a>. The sounds you can hear in the study are a mix of the white noise, the piano, and either or both sounds reproduced through the cochlear implant simulator devised by Robin Fox.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Study No. 2<\/em><\/strong> examines the various harmonies that can be produced with the scale. Using only one instrument (electric organ), a sequence of chords and single tones are played in a variable rhythm. Certain pitches, with frequencies that straddled a pair of electrodes, were shifted up or down an octave. This sequence was fed back into the same AudioMulch filter used in <em><strong>Study No. 1<\/strong><\/em>, which plays back differing amounts of the original and filtered organ.<\/p>\n<p>What next? <strong><em>Study No. 1<\/em><\/strong> is very rudimentary and serves as a preliminary map of the type of soundworld I am dealing with. <strong><em>Study No. 2<\/em><\/strong> was a demonstration of harmonic combinations that are possible. In the latter piece, I suspect that the combination of chords used and the organ sound will come across as too cluttered in the more rigidly-defined sound structure of the implants. The piece I am working on now uses the following principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implant wearers report being able to understand speech very well. I&#8217;m using a speaking voice as a sort of key, or guide, to the music. This includes filtering and processing the voice in different ways, and deriving melody and rhythm from speech patterns.<\/li>\n<li>Using lighter instrumental timbres with simpler sounds.<\/li>\n<li>Building textures that sound active, without becoming dense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a little segment about the Music For Bionic Ears project on Australian TV recently, which can be watched online. (I can see it in the UK, so I guess everyone can.) I&#8217;ve uploaded two of the studies I&#8217;ve made for the project for you to listen to, working with the 16-tone tuning system. 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