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Augvox: an augmented voice instrument
Abstract
As a musical instrument, the human voice offers a significant range in terms of sonic results. Control of this particular instrument is aided by a natural familiarity, and it takes little concentration to quickly produce sounds of vastly differing musical characteristics. The advent of computer music has afforded manipulative processing that delivers auditory results that would never be attainable in the natural world. This project attempts to bridge the gap between natural generation of vocal sounds, and complex digital processing, by developing a simple, ergonomic instrument that places control of the sonic output in the hands of the artist.
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The use of computers in live performance has resulted in a situation in which cause-and-effect has effectively disappeared, for the first time since music began. Once we started to use computers in live performance – to interpret gestures and generate sound as a result – the age-old relationship between gesture and result became so blurred as to be often imperceptible. In historical terms, this problem is extremely recent, involving only the last few decades of musical practice preceded by at least thirty thousand years of music-making by conventional (acoustic) means. The aim of this paper is to show how this affects contemporary performance and the relationship between the performer and the audience.
This paper will present observations on the design, artistic, and human factors of creating digital music controllers. Specific projects will be presented, and a set of design principles will be supported from those examples.
