Music Maker is a free online resource that provides files for 3D printing woodwind and brass mouthpieces and tutorials for using those mouthpieces to learn about acoustics and music. The mouthpieces are designed to fit into standard plumbing and automobile parts that can be easily purchased at home improvement and automotive stores. The result is a musical tool that can be used as simply as a s...

The advent of digital sound synthesis has offered to the musical researcher the possibility of exploring the concept of musical instrument in its broader sense. One principal axis of interest of the IRCAM Musical Acoustics Team is research on modelisation of musical instrument oscillation, the computer implementation of the models that arise, and the evaluation of the musical interest that the ...

Conventional wisdom holds that spaciousness and envelopment are caused by lateral sound energy in rooms, and that it is the early arriving lateral energy which is most responsible. However small rooms often have many early lateral reflections, but by common definition small rooms are not spacious. This paper (briefly) describes a series of experiments into the perception of spaciousness and env...

examination and a comparison of conventional ECM with the experimental model, a silicon diaphragm condenser microphone produced using the MEMS method. The silicon diaphragm satisfies high-temperature resistance and stable temperature characteristics because of its very small coefficient of linear expansion and it is measured total harmonic distortion THD on high pressure sound. Finally, it will...