Journal Articles

  1. B. L. Sturm, “Concatenative Sound Synthesis and its Application to Micromontage Composition,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 46-66, 2006. (Sound examples in text here.)
  2. B. L. Sturm, "Concatenative Sound Synthesis and Intellectual Property: An Analysis of the Legal Issues Surrounding the Synthesis of Novel Sounds from Copyright-Protected Work," Journal New Music Research, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 23-33, 2006 (invited).

Conference Papers

  1. B. L. Sturm, “MATConcat: An Application for Exploring Concatenative Sound Synthesis Using MATLAB," Proc. 7th Int. Conf. Digital Audio Effects, Naples, Italy, 2004.

Music Compositions

  1. Concatenative Variations of a Passage by Mahler (in progress)
  2. Dedication to George Crumb, American Composer (10:00)

Software

  1. MATConcat: ACSS in MATLAB

Etc.

  1. VLDCMCaR (Presented here for historical completeness, this eventually became the much better-titled MATConcat.)

Bob L. Sturm: Research: Adaptive Concatenative Sound Synthesis

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Adaptive concatenative sound synthesis (ACSS) is a method for music and sound synthesis that is analogous to the photomosaic technique. Instead of assembling small pictures to form a larger picture that becomes visually coherent from a distance, ACSS recomposes a target sound using bits and pieces of other sounds. The results can be wild, and musically evocative. In my research I have explored this technique for music composition, as well as its legal ramifications with respect to US Code and precedents. Several of my articles and compositions are linked to on the left.