Building on recent research in musical creativity and the composition process, this paper presents a specific practical application of our theory and software to sound design. The BigBang rubette module that brings gestural music composition methods to the Rubato Composer software was recently generalized in order to work with any kinds of musical and non-musical objects. Here, we focus on time...

It is important that practical data-flow analyzers are backed by reliably proven theoretical results. Abstract interpretation provides a sound mathematical framework and necessary generic properties for an abstract domain to be well-defined and sound with respect to the concrete semantics. In logic programming, the abstract domain Sharing is a standard choice for sharing analysis for both pract...

background: in the steel industry, coke-fueled furnaces are used for smelting iron ore to produce cast iron are considered as sources of annoying noise.this study aims to evaluate the noise pollution blast furnace and sound source characteristics in order to present noise control measures in the steel industry. methods: measurement of noise level and its frequency analysis was performed using s...

the aim of the present study was to assess the industrial noise pollution and its effects on the blood pressure of workers during activities intextile factory in ilam,which is situated in west of iran. a cross-sectional study was performed on a group included 81 workers and 30 people as sample and control group, respectively. a questionnaire was filled out and then the other measurements includ...

The paper describes different methods devoted to the reproduction of sound source directivity. Although being dedicated to different application domains, they are based on similar physical modelling and rely on array technology driven by signal processing. In the first approach, a 3D array of transducers laid out on the facets of a polyhedron is controlled in order to radiate sound according to...

We present a method based on the inverse boundary element method (IBEM) for the in-situ estimation of normal acoustic impedances of the surfaces in a room. As input to the inverse process, this technique uses the geometry of the interior space, the position and strength of the sound source, and a set of sound pressures measured at random positions in the acoustic field. Previous work in inverse...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...

Cochlear hair cells convert sound vibration into electrical potential, and loss of these cells diminishes auditory function. In response to mechanical stimuli, piezoelectric materials generate electricity, suggesting that they could be used in place of hair cells to create an artificial cochlear epithelium. Here, we report that a piezoelectric membrane generated electrical potentials in respons...

We are proposing an interpolation technique for head related transfer functions (HRTFs). For deriving the algorithm we study the dual problem where sound is emitted from the listener’s ear and the generated sound field is recorded along a circular array of microphones around the listener. The proposed interpolation algorithm is based on the observation that spatial bandwidth of the measured sou...