A Neural Network Based Framework for Archetypical Sound Synthesis

Abstract: This paper describes a preliminary approach to algorithmically reproduce the archetypical structure adopted by humans to classify sounds. In particular, we propose an approach to predict the human perceived chaos/order level in a sound and synthesize new timbres that present the desired amount of this feature. We adopted a Neural Network based method, in order to exploit its inner predisposition to model perceptive and abstract features. We finally discuss the obtained accuracy and possible implications in creative contexts.