Modeling Noise-Related Timbre Semantic Categories of Orchestral Instrument Sounds With Audio Features, Pitch Register, and Instrument Family.

ABSTRACT: Audio features such as inharmonicity, noisiness, and spectral roll-off have been identified as correlates of "noisy" sounds. However, such features are likely involved in the experience of multiple semantic timbre categories of varied meaning and valence. This paper examines the relationships of stimulus properties and audio features with the semantic timbre categories raspy/grainy/rough, harsh/noisy, and airy/breathy. Participants (n = 153) rated a random subset of 52 stimuli from a set of 156 approximately 2-s orchestral instrument sounds representing varied instrument families (woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion), registers (octaves 2 through 6, where middle C is in octave 4), and both traditional and extended playing techniques (e.g., flutter-tonguing, bo

SUBMITTER: Reymore L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9010607 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature