In her artistic work, composer/performer Andrea Young explores the full range of potential interactions between voice and computer: acoustic, amplified, deconstructed/reconstructed, and extracting features from the voice to use as control signals for synthesis and processing algorithms.
Although amplification and live processing are widely used in both experimental and commercial music, the last option — feature-extraction and remapping to (potentially unrelated) sound parameter controls — is much less explored.
Andrea has contributed several vocalises (melodies without words) to the Kyma library — perfect for experimenting with feature extraction or as spectrally-rich source material for manipulation and analysis/resynthesis. Check your Kyma 3rd party Samples folder, in the sub-folder Andrea Young.
Dr. Young studied vocal performance and composition at The University of Victoria, electronic music at The Institute of Sonology in The Hague, and holds a Performer-Composer doctorate from The California Institute of the Arts.