GROWING A SOUND SYNTHESIZER     

Creation of sound synthesis algorithms using evolutionary methods

In this page you will find some papers, posters, and slide presentations in chronological order

Paper 2000
This is an introductory paper presented in the AES in September of 2000. It introduces some of the problems that will be found when using evolutionary methods focused in audio synthesis problems, and possible ways to solve them:

Garcia, R. (2000). "Towards the Automatic Generation of Sound Synthesis Techniques: Preparatory Steps", 109th Convention, Audio Engineering Society, Los Angeles, CA, September 22 -25, 2000. Preprint 5186
(pdf) (power point presentation)

Poster 2000
Two posters (actually, they are the same poster with different background colors, white and black). They where designed for the "Digital Life Symposium" of MIT Media Lab held in October of 2000.

Poster 1 (white text on black background) in pdf
Poster 2 (black text on white background) in pdf

Thesis Proposal 2000
This is the thesis proposal submitted on December of  2000

Proposal pdf

Poster 2001
A poster (quite big) designed for the "Digital Life Symposium" of the MIT Media Lab held on May of 2001. This poster includes some examples of the grown topologies and spectrograms of the sounds while their topologies evolve.

posterdl2001.pdf
poster.zip (Better resolution power point file, zipped 1 MB). 

ECAL 2001 
Artificial Life Models for Musical Applications
Workshop of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life
To be held in Prague, Czech Republic 09 September 2001 
- - ECAL conference: 10 , 12, 13 and 14 September - - conference website

ecal01rago.pdf

MIT Master thesis
Automatic Generation of Sound Synthesis Techniques
September 2001

ragothesismit.pdf (1.41 MB)

 Synthesis by Example
Synthesis by Example conference.
Presented on: 
- MIT Media Lab (Boston, USA) August 20th 2001    
- MIT Media Lab Europe (Dublin, Ireland) August 23rd 2001
- ECAL2001 (Prague, Czech Republic) September 9th 2001

synthesis_by_example_august2001.zip (include video examples 2.05 MB)
synthesis_by_example_august2001.ppt (no video examples 456 KB)