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

Timbre synthesis and perception (Chr. Reuter)

In this session, model representations of timbre perception and synthesis will be discussed. The focus will be particularly on questions (that perhaps might help to fill or bridge some gaps) such as: What timbre cues entail what kind of instrument recognition (from a music-psychological perspective) accompanied with what kind of cortical representation (from a neuronal perspective)? How can synthesis techniques like physical modeling or pulse forming help us to deepen our knowledge about timbre genesis in real instruments? What are the instruments and synthesis techniques in the first part of the 20th century that are more or less entirely unknown to Western researchers? How is it possible to extract individual acoustical events (as noises, instruments or similar) from a complex auditory scene with the help of mathematics?

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