Shared, communicable vocabularies for sound qualities

Develop shared, communicable vocabularies for describing sound qualities in music-production and audio-analysis systems.

Background

The paper identifies articulation as a persistent difficulty in reference listening: musicians and production engineers may perceive differences in a mix but struggle to locate, name, or explain them. It situates this difficulty within prior work on recording-engineering discourse and explicitly characterizes the construction of shared vocabularies for sound qualities as an unresolved design problem. The problem is relevant to systems such as DipTych because interpretable comparison requires descriptive terms that producers can understand, verify, and use in making production decisions.