Granular synthesis

Building sound from many brief grains of audio, reassembled with independent control over density, pitch, and position.

Type: Concept
Subjects: Computation Sound Time

Decomposing or building sound from many very brief “grains” of audio, each independently controllable in duration, pitch, and timing, then reassembled into a denser texture — a technique with roots in Dennis Gabor’s work on acoustic quanta.