Catalog of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments

Active Acoustic Instruments for Electronic Chamber Music

This paper presents an ongoing project for augmenting acoustic instruments with active acoustics. Active acoustics are defined as audio-rate vibration driven into the instruments physical structure, inducing air-borne sound output. The instrument’s acoustic sound is thus doubled by an electronic soundscape radiating from the same source. The article is centered on a case study on two guitars, o...

polymeric composites as alternatives for wood for producing music instruments

in this study, the disadvantages of wood, which is widely employed in producing music instruments, are discussed. for example, high moisture sensitivity, low impact resistance, and time-consuming procedure as well as various properties of different species or in several parts of one specimen which are the main problems of wooden music instruments are extensively discussed in this paper. many ma...

Frost School of Music The Troublesome T ’ s of Tuning Wind Instruments

Real-time Spectral Synthesis for Wind Instruments

A real-time spectral domain monophonic synthesizer is being developed. The idea is to achieve the sound quality given by samplers and improve the flexibility of control and model transitions between notes. The output sound is generated concatenating, transforming and synthesizing attacks and stationeries previously recorded by a real player that have been analyzed and stored in a database. A sp...

Catalog-based single-channel speech-music separation

We propose a new catalog-based speech-music separation method for background music removal. Assuming that we know a catalog of the background music, we develop a generative model for the superposed speech and music spectrograms. We represent the speech spectrogram by a Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) model and the music spectrogram by a conditional Poisson Mixture Model (PMM). By choosi...