Spring 2025: DSP

The course Digital Signal Processing for Music Analysis and Synthesis is a basic introduction into general DSP and selected sound synthesis methods.

Course materials are part of https://ringbuffer.org/:

• Ringbuffer DSP
• Sound Synthesis Introduction

Bach Sonification Challenge

For their final group assignment, students were asked to sonify the following score with at least two sound synthesis methods that were taught in the class:

Results

All sounds had to be rendered in Python - a DAW could be used for arrangement. Karplus-Strong is a favourite for modeling the harpsichord. Some groups extended the example and created a rendering of the complete composition. In arbitrary order:

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