Ancient Chinese music bells can be traced back to the Shang dynasty (1600–1100 B.C.). In addition to their significance in history and metallurgy, they provide much insight into the design of musical instruments in the early years and continue to make important contribution to acoustics due to their unique acoustical properties and rich physical mechanisms. These music bells differ from carillo...

The musical nature of the sounds a modern language emitted in spoken mode, as well their rhythmic and melodic combinations, exert considerable "power" on teaching-learning: they provoke, learner, decisive auditory reactions, variables which are difficult to control, lead more or less pleasant sensations, (in) understanding, interpretation, produce meaning. Musical perception is at heart success...

Model-based sound synthesis generally focuses on providing tools for simulation of the sound production mechanisms in musical instruments for real-time sound synthesis. More recently, the same tools are being used for simulation of bioacoustical systems. The sound production anatomy and neurophysiology of animals are important subtopics in the study of sound in non-human animals. Although the m...

At ICAD'96, a real-time virtual audio reality model was presented, which included model-based sound synthesizers, geometric room acoustics modeling, binaural auralization for headphone and loudspeaker listening, and high-quality animation. The DIVA environment is an integrated implementation of a virtual reality system currently aiming at a virtual symphony orchestra performance. In the current...

The article analyzes the influence of architecture concert hall on acoustics and formation effect musical performance. author notes that a can be great importance in providing an acoustic effect. In addition, how musicians perceive their playing audience perceives work. Some factors may affect include shape size hall, materials used to finish walls ceiling, location stage seats, as well equipme...

In the analysis of musical acoustics, we usually use the power spectrum to describe the difference between timbres from two music instruments. However, according to our experiments, the power spectrum cannot be used as effective features for erhu instrument identification. In this paper, we use MFCC (mel-scale frequency cepstral coefficients) as features for music instrument identification usin...

The GuQin, a seven-stringed zither, is China's oldest stringed instrument, with a history of some 3000 years. In Chinese, “Gu” means old and “Qin” means musical instrument. Historically, GuQin was referred to as " Qin " in most ancient Chinese writings. Owing to its long history, it has been widely called GuQin during the last 100 years. This summer in China, we conducted an interview with Feng...

GroupLoop is a browser-based, collaborative audio feedback control system for musical performance. GroupLoop users send their microphone stream to other participants while simultaneously controlling the mix of other users’ streams played through their speakers. Collaborations among users can yield complex feedback loops where feedback paths overlap and interact. Users are able to shape the feed...

The dynamic interplay between static and sliding friction is fundamental to many animal movements. One interesting example of stick-slip friction is found in the sound-producing apparatus of many spiny lobster species (Palinuridae). The acoustic movements of the spiny lobster's plectrum over the file are generated by stick-slip friction between the two surfaces. We examined the microscopic anat...