Magnetic field is one efficient approach to realize non-contact control of materials. Here, we propose a type membrane-based metasurface consisting several parts magnetorheological films embedded with magnetic particles, which enable sound insulation through field. The abundant degree freedoms in membrane-type metamaterials are explored by considering composite structures. Through numerical cal...

Genomic is Python software that evolves sound treatments and produce novel sounds. It offers features that have the potential to serve sound designers and composers, aiding them in their search for new and interesting sounds. This paper lays out the rationale and some design decisions made for Genomic, and proposes several intuitive ways of both using the software and thinking about the techniq...

Aurally-adequate recording and analysis technology has been available to acoustic engineers working to measure and analyze sound in a way analogous to human hearing since the early eighties. Aurally-adequate measurement technology, using the Artificial Head for recording sound and applying psychoacoustic calculation for analysis, is vital in achieving acoustic quality and good sound design. How...

We present a new interactive sound installation to be explored by movement. Specifically, movement qualities extracted from the motion tracking data excite a dynamical system (a synthetic flock of agents), which responds to the movement qualities and indirectly controls the visual and sonic feedback of the interface. In other words, the relationship between gesture and sound are mediated by syn...

Digital sound synthesizers, ubiquitous today in sound cards, software and dedicated hardware, use algorithms (Sound Synthesis Techniques, SSTs) capable of generating sounds similar to those of acoustic instruments and even totally novel sounds. The design of SSTs is a very hard problem. It is usually assumed that it requires human ingenuity to design an algorithm suitable for synthesizing a sou...

This paper reports on an approach to the design of continuous sonic feedback in tangible interfaces, and on quantitative evaluation methods intended to guide such design tasks. The issues it addresses may be of central relevance to areas of the emerging discipline of sonic interaction design that have begun to address the unique problems of designing sound for highly interactive contexts. Three...