PERCEPTUAL DISTANCE IN TIMBRE SPACE

Abstract

This paper describes a perceptual space for timbre, defines an objective metric that takes into account perceptual orthogonality, and measures the quality of timbre interpolation applicable to perceptually valid timbral sonification. We discuss two timbre representations and measure perceptual judgment. We determined that a timbre space based on Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) is a good model for perceptual timbre space. 1.1. Goal and motivation 1.