Are you a composer, musician, sound designer, or artist who works primarily with audio samples? We invite you to participate in a research study exploring how AI can be used for creative manipulation of the timbre of audio samples.
When audio is uploaded into an AI model, it is initially represented by an intermediate representation (sometimes called a ‘latent representation‘). We want to see if these representations can be exposed for manipulation to users in a way that leads to increased creative control for users. We have designed a special sample-based tool to facilitate this exploration. Now we are looking for people to use and provide feedback on the tool. We are offering compensation of £1501 for participation.
Participation requires that you:
- Engage with a pre-study questionnaire (25-mins)
- Attend an in-person induction to the study tool in person (30 mins-1 hour)
- Using the provided tool in 3 music-making tasks (making or working 30-60 seconds of your own music, in your own time, but by a deadline in late-april).
- Complete four post-use questionnaires (totalling 30-40 mins)
- Engage with researchers for a brief (30 min) interview
- Attend a workshop afternoon with other participants to share and discuss practices + experience (3hr)
If you’re interested, please write to the PhD conducting this research: Ashley Noel-Hirst.
This work is conducted at the Centre for Digital Music as part of the Communication Acoustics Lab
- Voucher of the participants choosing (or cash, pending approval from finance department)↩