Acoustic and Categorical Dissimilarity of Musical Timbre: Evidence from Asymmetries Between Acoustic and Chimeric Sounds

Frontiers in Psychology
Kai SiedenburgStephen McAdams

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of acoustic and categorical information in timbre dissimilarity ratings. Using a Gammatone-filterbank-based sound transformation, we created tones that were rated as less familiar than recorded tones from orchestral instruments and that were harder to associate with an unambiguous sound source (Experiment 1). A subset of transformed tones, a set of orchestral recordings, and a mixed set were then rated on pairwise dissimilarity (Experiment 2A). We observed that recorded instrument timbres clustered into subsets that distinguished timbres according to acoustic and categorical properties. For the subset of cross-category comparisons in the mixed set, we observed asymmetries in the distribution of ratings, as well as a stark decay of inter-rater agreement. These effects were replicated in a more robust within-subjects design (Experiment 2B) and cannot be explained by acoustic factors alone. We finally introduced a novel model of timbre dissimilarity based on partial least-squares regression that compared the contributions of both acoustic and categorical timbre descriptors. The best model fit (R (2) = 0.88) was achieved when both types of descriptors were taken into account. These findings are inte...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 2018·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·Mattson OggWilliam J Idsardi
Oct 20, 2017·Frontiers in Psychology·Kai Siedenburg, Stephen McAdams
May 12, 2017·Frontiers in Psychology·Kai Siedenburg, Daniel Müllensiefen
Mar 3, 2019·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·Kai Siedenburg
Jan 26, 2021·EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing·Vincent LostanlenMathieu Lagrange
Nov 4, 2020·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·Charalampos Saitis, Kai Siedenburg

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