Computer aided design of polyphonic songs

Our works presented in this paper are part of a university project of inventory and enhancement of the Corsican cultural heritage. More precisely we work on design a software to enhance and learn the Corsican polyphonic songs. An association of Corsica has developed a method of teaching of polyphonic songs: the mimophony. The mimophony is a gestural language that enable the main singer to guide the other (Corsican polyphonies are made up of three singers). Our work is to include synthesized sung voices in these gestures. To do this, with the IRCAM (Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination), we have designed two data gloves (one for each hand) in order to capture the mimophonic gestures. The gloves are connected with the MAX/MSP software and generate values in real time. MAX/MSP is used to synthesize sung vowels too. The goal of our works is to make the link between mimophonic gestures and synthesized voices so that one singer may create a polyphonic singing.