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Also, familiarise yourself with the relevant musical terms used to describe (and imitate / interpret) birdsong:
Intervals, microintervals
Rhythms
Motivs, Leitmotiv
Scales, modes, non-octave modes
Glissando
Vibrato
- Ring modulation
Aleatorics (in music)
Approaches to Artificial Birdsong
- Starting teaser: Heinz Funk's Moog Demo ZDF (Youtube), Risset's "Sud"
- Introduction to subtractive synthesis (Tal Noise Maker in Reaper, MAX-version)
- Sample manipulation and stitching (Mulab / Max Patch)
- Granular synthesis (Max Patch)