Musical acoustics of orchestral water crotales

Musical acoustics of orchestral water crotales.

An experimental investigation of orchestral crotale vibrational modes in water is presented, along with a qualitative virtual mass model describing the observed effects. Changes in frequency, overtone ratio, and mode splitting as a function of water depth are reported for a C(6) crotale using electronic speckle-pattern interferometry. These data are related to perceived changes in pitch and tim...

The dynamics and tuning of orchestral crotales.

An experimental and theoretical investigation of the acoustic and vibrational properties of orchestral crotales within the range C6 to C8 is reported. Interferograms of the acoustically important modes of vibration are presented and the frequencies are reported. It is shown that the acoustic spectra of crotales are not predicted by assuming that they are either thin circular plates or annular p...

Orchestral Musical Accompaniment from Synthesized Audio

Session 5pMU Musical Acoustics and Structural Acoustics and Vibration: Computational Methods in Musical Acoustics II

Real-time auralization of physical models has attracted vivid interest over the last years. This is mainly due to the rising computational capabilities of personal computers and the accessibility of specialized (external) accelerating hardware, like GPGPUs (generalpurpose graphics processing units) or FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). In this work, an extended framework of real-time physi...

Using Musical Acoustics

The physical modeling of complex sound generators can only be approached by individually synthesizing and discretizing the objects that contribute to the generation of sounds. This raises the problem of how to correctly implement the interaction between these objects. In this article we show how to construct an object-based environment for sound generation, whose objects can be individually syn...