Vienna Talk 2010 on Music Acoustics "Bridging the Gaps"      September 19–21

List all contributions by topical sessions

Special topic: Nonlinear effects in wind instruments (M. Campbell)
Special topic: Wall vibrations and the sound of wind instruments (T. Moore, W. Kausel)
Special topic: Optical imaging for musical acoustics (T. Rossing)
Percussion instruments (T. Rossing)
Singing voice (M. Kob, N. Amir)
Stringed instruments (E. Schoonderwaldt)
Timbre synthesis and perception (Chr. Reuter)
Physical modeling, optimization and bore reconstruction
Measurement and instrumentation technology for musical instruments
Applications of musical sound analysis/synthesis including timbre perception (J. Beauchamp, S. Carral)
Music performance and playing technique (W. Goebl, G. Widmer)
Acoustics and organology (St. Carter, H. Vereecke)

Special topic: Nonlinear effects in wind instruments (M. Campbell)

Why do all brass instruments not sound the same?
Murray Campbell (Keynote)

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In search for a source/filter model for brass instruments
James W. Beauchamp

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Wave separation and non-linear effects during super-high note playing in brass instruments.
Jonathan Kemp

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The influence of mouthpiece cup shape on "brassiness"
Robert W. Pyle

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Computation of wave distortion due to nonlinear propagation: application to brass instruments sound synthesis.
Christophe Vergez

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The use of Volterra series for simiulating the nonlinear behaviour of musical instruments
Lamberto Tronchin; Andrea Venturi

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Special topic: Wall vibrations and the sound of wind instruments (T. Moore, W. Kausel)

Influence of wall vibration on the sound of wind instruments
Jean-Pierre Dalmont

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Transmission line modelling of acoustical systems with vibrating walls
Wilfried Kausel; Daniel W. Zietlow; Thomas R. Moore

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Air column effects and direct radiation due to bell vibrations of a brass wind instrument
Thomas R. Moore; Daniel W. Zietlow; Wilfried Kausel

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Is it the player or is it the instrument?
Robert W. Pyle

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Good Vibrations? The acoustical and musical effect of materials in the construction of brass instruments
Richard Smith

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To the influence of the wall oscillations at brass instruments
Gunter Ziegenhals

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Special topic: Optical imaging for musical acoustics (T. Rossing)

Visualizing structural vibrations using laser speckle
Thomas R. Moore

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Mode studies of plucked stringed instruments: Application of holographic interferometry
Bernard Richardson

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Some optical methods for modal analysis of musical instruments
Thomas D. Rossing

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Improvements on the use of maximum length sequences in acoustic pulse reflectometry
Noam Amir; Harel Primack

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Characterization of coupled vibrations in the Caribbean steel pan
Andrew Morrison

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Possibility of ESPI visualization
Zdenek Otcenasek; Pavel Dlask

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Percussion instruments (T. Rossing)

Musical Acoustics of Water Crotales
Randy Worland

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Drum sets characterization in acoustic laboratory
Nicola Granzotto; Paolo Ruggeri

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Hand-bell Mode Studies
Uwe J. Hansen; Thomas D. Rossing

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Linear and nonlinear vibrations in plates, gongs, and steelpans
Thomas D. Rossing (Keynote)

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Singing voice (M. Kob, N. Amir)

Tools for the analysis of acoustical and physiological characteristics of the singing voice
Ingrid Bendl

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Studies of non-classical styles of singing
Johan Sundberg

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Characterizing and improving vibrato in the singing voice
Noam Amir; Ofer Amir; Irit Ronen

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Stringed instruments (E. Schoonderwaldt)

The violinist’s bestiary: characterizing bowing parameters of technical bow strokes
Matthias Demoucron

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Sensor fusion and multi-modal feedback for musical instrument
Tobias Grosshauser; Thomas Hermann

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Bowing gesture analysis for whom, why, and how?
Knut Guettler

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Control and coordination in complex bowing patterns
Erwin Schoonderwaldt

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Violinist in Balance
Crissman Taylor

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MusicJacket in the Wild – Development and Evaluation of a Wearable System to support Violin Bowing
Janet van der Linden

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Influence of the edge of the cast iron frame curvature on the spectrum of the piano string vibrations
Dmitri Kartofelev; Anatoli Stulov

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Timbre synthesis and perception (Chr. Reuter)

History of electro-musical instruments in Russia, first half of 20th Century
Ekaterina Davidenkova; Irina Aldoshina

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The neuromagnetic representation of the scale of instrumental tones in human auditory cortex
Martin Andermann; Andre Rupp

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Describing and classifying timbre in the time-frequency domain
Monika Dörfler

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The influence of formants and noise parts on the perceived typicality of woodwind sounds
Michael Oehler; Marco Lehmann; Christoph Reuter

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Physical modelling of the Sitar
Sadjad Siddiq

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Neurobiological statistics for interpreting problems of musical consonance perception
Jobst P. Fricke

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Physical modeling, optimization and bore reconstruction

Investigating oboe manufacturing consistency by comparing the acoustical properties of five nominally identical instruments
David Sharp

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Bore reconstruction based on input impedance measurement
Marthe Curtit; Fazli Yahaya; Jean-Pierre Dalmont; Joël Gilbert; Olivier Cottet

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Effect of transverse acoustic flow on the input impedance of rapidly flaring horns
Cornelis J. Nederveen

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Parameter optimisation for woodwind single-reed models. (V. Chatziioannou, M. van Walstijn)
Vasileios Chatziioannou; Maarten van Walstijn

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The effect of mouthpiece design on slurred transients in brass instruments
John Chick; Shona Logie; Lisa Norman; Stefan Bilbao; Murray Campbell

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Radiation and reflection in a rectangular cross-section waveguide: finite difference simulation and theoretical frequency domain impedance.
Jonathan Kemp

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Measurement and instrumentation technology for musical instruments

An artificial excitation mechanism for an acoustical comparison of the hammered dulcimer
Alexander Mayer; Herbert Rust

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BIAS industrial application and diagnostic of ROOTS blower
Jan Skala

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Applications of musical sound analysis/synthesis including timbre perception (J. Beauchamp, S. Carral)

Perceptually correlated parameters of musical instrument sounds
James W. Beauchamp (Keynote)

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What is Old Italian violin timbre?
Anders Buen

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Violin sound quality: nasality and clarity
Claudia Fritz

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Human-computer analysis of musical sound mixtures
Bozena Kostek

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Informed sound analysis for active music listening
Sylvain Marchand

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Jaco – A versatile tool for time-frequency processing with special operations
Christoph Reuter; Herbert Griebel

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Acoustics and signal processing in the development of music education software
Estefania Cano; Christian Dittmar; Sascha Grollmisch

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Combination tones in the violin
Angela Lohri; Sandra Carral; Vasileios Chatziioannou

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Comparison of three Chinese traditional Pipa music schools with the aid of sound analysis
Pei Ju Tsai; Sandra Carral

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Music performance and playing technique (W. Goebl, G. Widmer)

On the use of intelligent computational methods for music performance analysis
Gerhard Widmer (Keynote)

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Robust 'any-time' music tracking
Andreas Arzt; Gerhard Widmer

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Visualization of brass players’ warm up by infrared thermography
Matthias Bertsch

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An accent-based approach to automatic rendering of piano performance: Preliminary auditory evaluation
Erica Bisesi; Richard Parncutt

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Empirical Performance Analysis with the Magaloff Corpus: A Study of Performance Errors
Sebastian Flossmann

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Expressive strategies and instrumental characteristics: A comparison between organ, harpsichord, and piano
Bruno Gingras

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Analyzing finger motion in piano performance: Touch and tempo effects
Werner Goebl; Caroline Palmer

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Towards the automatic annotation of large corpora of Classical music
Bernhard Niedermayer

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Intonation, segmentation and emotional intensity in an atonal piece performance.
Monica Sanchez; Jose Ordoñana; Arantza Almoguerra; Ana Laucirica

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Acoustics and organology (St. Carter, H. Vereecke)

Victor-Charles Mahillon's theories on the construction of mouthpieces for brasswinds
Stewart Arlen Carter

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Availibility of historic musical instruments for research
Jeannine Lambrechts-Douillez

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Small holes of wonder
Patricia Lopes Bastos

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The characteristic sound of the oboe: Can it be played with a single reed and still maintain its tone colour?
Sandra Carral; Cristophe Vergez; Kees Nederveen

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Innovative aid for instrument making: a collaborative approach between workshops and research laboratories
Vincent Doutaut

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The Cello tailpiece: How it affects the sound and response of the instrument
Eric Fouilhe; Giacomo Goli; Anne Houssay; George Stoppani

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Valves under scrutiny. An acoustical and technical comparison of nineteenth-century valve types
Sabine Katharina Klaus; Robert Pyle

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The influence of bore size on brassiness potential
Arnold Myers; Robert W. Pyle; Joël Gilbert; Murray Campbell

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The influence of the mouthpiece on the playability of early orchestral horns
Lisa Norman; John Chick; Arnold Myers; Murray Campbell

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Guitar making – the acoustician’s tale
Bernard Richardson

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“He thought one of the parts was sung by a woman standing behind the instrument…”: Aesthetic perceptions of the eighteenth-century piano as a mediator between science and illusion
Maria Rose

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Carbon fiber composite, an alternative to brass (?)
Hannes W. Vereecke

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