1 Mar
2022
1 Mar
'22
8:28 a.m.
Hard to add anything other than what Fons, Bill (his birds.clm are
great!) and others have written.
I thought I should maybe mention ATS (Analysis, Transformation,
Synthesis) and associated programs:
https://dxarts.washington.edu/wiki/analysis-transformation-and-synthesis-ats
There is a command line analysis tool that can generate the analysis
files (a mix of sinusoidal components and bandlimited noise bands). I
have used it successfully for some of my music in the context of CLM and
SuperCollider (there are SC UGens that can read those analysis files).
In any case it shares all the limitations of analysis that have been
mentioned before. Maybe slowing down the bird songs and then analyzing
them, as Fons suggested?
Can't wait to hear the results!
Best,
-- Fernando
On 2/27/22 5:48 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 02:06:06PM +0100, Jeanette C.
wrote:
At least, analysing the song of the chaffinch is
free of broadband features.
Certainly going by ear alone. That together with some more already coded
data from other bird calls may greatly help in a semi-analytical approach,
which may yield good enough results.
For us humans, the gray area between time-domain and frequency domain
features is around 20 Hz. For example a 10 Hz modulation we will hear
as vibrato, but 30 Hz certainly will give a very different impression,
that of a rough sound or a complex spectrum.
Since birds are much smaller than humans, they can produce faster
modulations and they also tend to generate higher frequencies. Very
probably for them the gray zone occurs at a higher frequency.
That means that of the most revealing ways to analyse bird sounds
is to listen to them slowed down (not time-stretched). That will
allow to hear modulations that are too fast for us to be perceived
as such otherwise.
Ciao,