SPEAKER:
Francesco Ameglio

Audio

Francesco Ameglio

Sound designer (contractor)

Francesco Ameglio is a sound artist currently based in Turin (Italy). After studying at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague (Netherlands) he lived between Paris and Montreal where he worked as a Sound Designer for interactive media, especially video games. He has also worked as an Audio Artist on Need for Speed Heat. In 2015, he co-founded SØVN Records, a label of experimental music and platforms for live performances. His research is based on sonic failures, incorrect compositional choices, and how sound can be used as a radical tool to discover unexplored territories. Bewitched by real and virtual interactions, he considers computers as an all-encompassing instrument to convey a constant state of uncertainty through sounds.

Machine learning for game audio

Using Flucoma as a main tool Francesco will try to build real examples on how sound designers can use neural networks on their advantage. Flucoma is a toolset that provides max msp, pure data and supercollider objects to investigate manipulation on large banks of sounds. Three degrees of manipulations are explored: (1) expressive browsing and descriptor-based taxonomy, (2) remixing, component replacement, and hybridisation by concatenation, and (3) pattern recognition at component level, with interpolating and variation-making potential. These novel manipulations will yield new sounds, new musical ideas, and new approaches to large corpora.