Research

Introduction

The objective of my research is to explore ways in which a computer-modelled representational system can describe pitch and noise in space in a clear and comprehensible way, with sufficient detail to make it useful in both composition and performance practice, providing graphical overviews and computer simulations of abstract models of music as localised sound. This will be used for the composition of music for various sound sources, such as voices, acoustic instruments, synthetic and concrete electronic sounds, aiming to bridge the gap between the vastly different theoretical frameworks of pitched and non-pitched music.

The starting point of these explorations has been Lasse Thoresen and Anders Hedman’s spectromorphological analysis notation which inherits ideas and concepts from Pierre Schaeffer and Denis Smalley. By relating concepts of music analysis, understood as descriptions of a perceived reality, to the acoustic properties of the real world, we end up with a notation system more suitable for the needs of a composer, particularly a composer engaged in computer-assisted composition.

This image shows the correlation between a notation example and a sonogram.

 

Papers

Sköld, M. (2019). The visual representation of spatialisation for composition and analysis. In Nordic Sound and Music Computing Conference 2019 (pp. 70-77).

Hansen, K., Bresin, R., Holzapfel, A., Pauletto, S., Gulz, T., Lindetorp, H., Misgeld, O., Sköld, M. (2019). Student involvement in sound and music research: current practices at KTH and KMH. In Nordic Sound and Music Computing Conference 2019 (pp. 36-41).

Sköld, M. (2019). Visual Representation of Musical Rhythm in Relation to MusicTechnology Interfaces-an Overview. In CMMR 2019 (pp. 725-736).

Panariello, C., Sköld, M., Frid, E., & Bresin, R. (2019). From vocal sketching to sound models by means of a sound-based musical transcription system. In Sound and Music Computing Conference (pp. 1-7).

Sköld, M. (2018). Combining Sound-and Pitch-Based Notation for Teaching and Composition. In TENOR’18–Fourth International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (pp. 1-6).

Sköld, M. (2017). The Harmony of Noise: Constructing a Unified System for Representation of Pitch, Noise and Spatialization. In CMMR2017 13th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (pp. 550-555). Les éditions de PRISM.

Sköld, M., Rutz, H. H., & Nierhaus, G. (2015). Matthias Sköld/A Topography of Personal Preferences. In Patterns of Intuition (pp. 209-229). Springer, Dordrecht.