Noneto: A Collaborative Sonic Interaction Between the Real and the Virtual

• Author / Creator

  Arnáez, Nicolás

• Noneto is an electroacoustic composition for string quartet and a quintet of loudspeakers. Each one of these sound sources perform written music: instrumentalists play their lines following a visual clock while a Max patch performs the voice of the loudspeakers. The overall timbre of the piece is generated by a sound synthesis module specifically coded for Noneto which features two digital wave modulation processes: 1) a resynthesized live sound amplitude modulation entitled RESA modulation, and 2) a process called double modulation which utilizes four oscillators consisting of one carrier and three modulators.
  Noneto re-contextualizes and blends different methods of music compositionthe dodecaphonic series, modes of limited transposition, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s idea of formula (mantra), musical interactivity, and otherswhich are merged together to create a piece of music that challenges the senses, driving the ears through a virtuosic aural journey of three musical movements which are based on the same musical seed, while exploring an innovative human-machine music correlation.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • ReDo synth
  • Max MSP
  • RESA modulation
  • Fast Fourrier Transform
  • Noneto
  • Interactive electronics
  • Interactive music
  • fft
  • Formula composition
  • Real-time processing
  • String quartet
  • Double Modulation
  • Sound synthesis

• Graduation date

  Fall 2020

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Doctor of Music

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-jx7b-fe96

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