We present Andante, a representation of music as animated characters walking along the piano keyboard that appear to play the physical keys with each step. Based on a view of music pedagogy that emphasizes expressive, full-body communication early in the learning process, Andante promotes an understanding of music rooted in the body, taking advantage of walking as one of the most fundamental hu...

Current physics-based synthesis techniques tend to synthesize the interaction between different functional elements of a sound generator by treating it as a single system. However, when dealing with the physical modeling of complex sound generators this choice raises questions about the resulting flexibility of the adopted synthesis strategy. One way to overcome this problem is to approach it b...

Automatic musical instrument recognition is a relatively new topic in the growing field of Music Information Retrieval. Early studies mostly focused on instrument recognition from recordings of isolated notes. More recently, some studies tackled the problem of musical phrases played in solo (i.e. without accompaniment) which better covers the timbre variability of a given instrument. However, t...

The effects of air loading on the acoustical properties of tabla, an Indian musical drum, are investigated by idealizing it as a composite membrane backed by a rigid cylindrical cavity. The coupled boundary value problem for membrane vibration and acoustic pressure, assuming acoustic radiations to be the only source of dissipation, is solved using a Green's function method. It is shown that air...

During the past three years IRCAM has developed the IRCAM Musical Workstation (IMW). Recently we have begun work on musical tools and the realization of music with the system. Miller Puckette has written a version of MAX for the IMW which includes signal processing objects, as well as the standard objects found in the Macintosh version of MAX (including MIDI objects). The MAX environment for th...

Fabrice Silva, Vincent Debut, Philippe Guillemain, Jean Kergomard, Christophe Vergez. Some simulations of the effect of varying excitation parameters on the transients of reed instruments. 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013), Jun 2013, Montréal, Canada. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, 035058 (2013), pp.4aMU4, 2013, Internation...

Abstract Reciprocity guarantees that in most media, sound transmission is symmetric between two points of space when the location source and receiver are interchanged. This fundamental law can be broken non-linear often at cost detrimental input power levels, large insertion losses, ideally prepared single-frequency signals. Thus, previous observations non-reciprocal have focused on pure tones,...

acoustic analysis of sounds produced during speech provides significant information about the physiology of larynx and vocal tract. the analysis of voice power spectrum is a fundamental sensitive method of acoustic assessment that provides valuable information about the voice source and characteristics of vocal tract resonance cavities. the changes in long-term average spectrum (ltas) spectral ...