Composing and listening to interactive music in virtual spaces: Integrating Wwise and Unity to compose an electroacoustic work
This research explores musical creation within virtual environments through the development of an interactive electroacoustic piece using Unity 3D and the Wwise audio engine. It draws upon the concept of digimodern aesthetics, grounded in Alan Kirby’s theory and its extension to interactive art by Tetiana Humeniuk. Employing a practice-based research methodology, the project culminated in the piece CARTESIUS, where the listener interacts with the virtual space, dynamically influencing the sound structure in real time. The work aims to broaden the creative and perceptual possibilities of active listening within immersive digital contexts.
AI and Latinofuturism : Neural synthesis and voice conversion applied to a contemporary latinofututurist music project
This research examines the convergence between the timbral possibilities of neural synthesis and voice conversion techniques based on deep learning, and the aesthetics of Latinofuturism as a decolonial strand of speculative fiction. Through a parallel research methodology—encompassing both the technical exploration of tools such as RAVE and RVC, and the critical analysis of Latinofuturism—combined with a practice-based research approach, a series of experimental compositions were developed to test artistic hypotheses. The results include the construction, in MAX/MSP, of a synthesis system with random timbral modification, the training of a voice conversion model with iconic voices from Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema, the creation of a “collage voice,” and the design of a techno-danzón sketch accompanied by a Latinofuturist conceptual narrative. Findings reveal a conceptual link between AI-assisted music creation and Latinofuturism: both processes involve a retrospective act, relying on a pre-existing corpus and reconfiguring the past to project alternative futures. This affinity, hauntological in nature, suggests that technology and decolonial speculative aesthetics share temporal re-signification strategies.
