Vox Tactum Meets Chorus Digitalis: Seven Years of Singing Surfaces

The proposed performance features six musicians coming from two ensembles: Chorus Digitalis (Paris) and Vox Tactum (Vancouver, Mons). These two ensembles have grown separately from a common seed research on expressive ges- tural control of speech and singing synthesis, started in 2005. Several musical instruments have emerged from this research, such as Cantor Digitalis, HandSketch and ChoirMob. As six of us are planning to attend NIME’13 with scientific papers, we would like to take this unique chance to gather on stage in Daejeon. By this mean, we hope to perform as one choir, just made of synthetic voices and fully operated by control surfaces. The performance will contain ”scenes” that will reveal our various usages of tablets for the expressive production of artificial speech and singing.