MORPHOMETRICS – Removing Translation Electroacoustic Miniature

 

Morphometrics is a field concerned with studying variation and change in the form (size and shape) of organisms. This piece is about using some of the methods of morphometrics and applying them to sound structures. These include measurement of lengths and angles, (pitch and gesture), landmark analysis (spacialization) and outline analysis (dynamics and timbre). The first method is removing translations. These are needed in order to compare shapes (sounds), the sounds need to be fitted into a frame of reference that places them in the same virtual space. The second method is to use the “centroid” – that is, the “centre of mass” of the sounds, this centroid is calculated for each new sound and translated to the original sound. The result of these comparisons and translations is the core of the structure and music ideas for this piece, this analysis will generate a graphical score and will serve as a guide for the structure of the piece.

AUDIO – MORPHOMETRICS

WAV – MORPHOMETRICS–