Sep 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Abstract
akróasys is a synthesizer that uses generative AI as an oscillator rather than as a generator of finished audio. It carries two such oscillators. The T5 Oscillator operates inside the text-embedding space of a diffusion audio model, before that space has been rendered to sound, and makes the embedding itself playable: two short text impulses mark out a region, and the instrument moves through, past and around it under continuous control. The Language-Resonant Oscillator (LRO) takes a description in ordinary language and has a locally running language model write a complete Csound orchestra for it, consulting a curated library of parametrised synthesis code with measured parameter ranges and perceptual anchors. The emitted program is compiled and executed live as the instrument's voice source. akróasys is developed as a critical-aesthetic and pedagogical instrument for making machine listening audible and playable. Published as T5ynth up to and including version 2.5.3.
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