Instruments of Music Theory

Universal Information Architecture of Acoustic Music Instruments

The information architecture of acoustic music instruments is described. As contemporary acoustic research has not yet covered all the possible materials, shapes, designs, and other essential properties of possible acoustic instruments, the model proposed in this chapter serves as a high-level analysis with meta-level XML-based markup elements and attributes. The ultimate design goal of the pro...

Music-Music Theory (MUS_THRY)

Automatic music transcription supporting different instruments

Automatic music recognition from an audio performance is a key problem and a challenge for coding music in western music notation in the digital world. This problem has been addressed in several manners and obtaining suitable results when a single specific instrument and monophonic music are processed. The development of a system for the automatic music transcription that is able to cope with d...

Designing Virtual Instruments for Computer Music

This paper is about how to create virtual musical instruments. Virtual instruments have a wide variety of usages and vary from digitizing audio samples of real instruments and recreating brand new virtual instruments that do not exist. Virtual instruments help music composers to compose music more easily and quickly, they also provide composers with new ideas and concepts for traditional music ...

Many-Person Instruments for Computer Music Performance

In this paper we explore the concept of instruments which are played by more than one person, and present two case studies. We designed, built and performed with Feedbørk, a two-player instrument comprising two iPads which form a video feedback loop, and Barrel, a nine-player instrument made up of eight Gametrak controllers fastened to a steel industrial barrel. By splitting the control of thes...