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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"musical instruments"”.
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Ensemble Within and Across Musical Instruments
… examined the nature of this ensemble coding for musical tones, in order to explore how ensemble perception operates across different sound sources (different instruments) and whether it depends on the musical experience of the listeners. Participants were undergraduate students with or without …
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Interaction Design for Digital Musical Instruments
… the process of designing interactive systems for musical performance that combine software and hardware in an intuitive and elegant fashion. The original contribution to knowledge consists of: (1) a critical assessment of recent trends in digital musical instrument design, (2) a descriptive model …
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Expressive digital musical instruments for children
… to use technology to introduce children to musical expressivity and creativity. It describes a set of digital musical instruments that were developed in an effort to provide children with new tools for interaction, exploration and enjoyment of music. The thesis unfolds a multidisciplinary …
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High Resolution Acoustic Measurements of Musical Instruments
… for 3-dimensional acoustic radiation data for musical instruments, specifically when the instruments are being played by musicians. The original contribution to knowledge that is presented includes the development of an algorithm which can be used for post-processing of recorded data to obtain …
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MICK : a design environment for musical instruments
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Audience participation using mobile phones as musical instruments
… audience participation using mobile phones as musical instruments in a music concert setting. Inspired by the ubiquity of smart phones, I attempted to accomplish audience engagement in a music performance by crafting an accessible musical instrument with which audience can be a part of the …
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Acoustic function of sound hole design in musical instruments
Sound-hole, an essential component of stringed musical instruments, enhances the sound radiation in the lower octave by introducing a natural vibration mode called air resonance. Many musical instruments, including those from the violin, lute and oud families have evolved complex sound-hole …
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An introduction to some recent developments in gestural musical instruments
… yet the processes of developing existent musical instruments and even inventing new ones are ongoing as technology advances and tastes change. Many recent developments have been made in a category of instruments I have chosen to refer to as "gestural instruments"- mainly electronic …
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Computer recognition of musical instruments : an examination of within class classification
… that enables within class classification of musical instruments. That is, a process that identifies a particular instrument of a given type - in this study four guitars and five violins. In recent years there have been numerous studies where between class classification has been attempted, …
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A Contemporary Approach to Expressiveness in the Design of Digital Musical Instruments
Digital musical instruments pose a number of unique challenges for designers and performers. These issues stem primarily from the lack of innate physical connection between the performance interface and means of sound generation, for the latter is usually dematerialised. Thus, this relationship …
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Organs and bodies : the Jew's harp and the anthropology of musical instruments
The Jew’s harp is unique among instruments, and in its apparent simplicity it is deceptive. It has been adapted to a wide array of cultural contexts worldwide and a diverse range of playing techniques, which, upon closer examination, reveal much about the cultures that generate them. Drawing on …
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Score instruments : a new paradigm of musical instruments to guide musical wonderers
Advancements in technology have made musical instruments, especially electronic instruments, accessible to the masses. As a result, music-making has become more widespread and convenient. However, the blackboxing practices of commercial Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) have conditioned many users …
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DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF AN ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR MUSIC INCLUSION
… social, and design challenge, addressing how musical practices, materials, and technologies are often shaped around normative assumptions that exclude a wide range of bodies, abilities, and forms of interaction. Furthermore, this part explores how advanced digital formats, specifically IEEE …
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BRING IT ON HOME: A Decolonial Analysis of Musical Instruments in the Penn Museum
… communities. As such, this project reflects on musical instruments in ethnographic archives and their unique representations of cultural heritage, using an ‘ukulele (29-58-122) from the Penn Museum’s collections as a case study. Investigating the provenance of this instrument and connecting it …
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Signal separation of musical instruments: simulation-based methods for musical signal decomposition and transcription
… thesis presents techniques for the modelling of musical signals, with particular regard to monophonic and polyphonic pitch estimation. Musical signals are modelled as a set of notes, each comprising of a set of harmonically-related sinusoids. An hierarchical model is presented that is very …
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Beyond voltage dividers: resistive sensor implementation for tactile control of musical instruments and other systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Stringed musical instruments : artefacts in the archaeology of Western Europe 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200.
… takes a broad European view of stringed musical instruments as artefacts in the archaeology of later Prehistory and the early Hiddle Ages. It reports on recent finds of new data during the investigation of archaeological collections both in Britain and on the Continent, and it reassesses …
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Timbral Effects of 3D Printing Brass Wind Musical Instruments: A Comparison Between Traditional and 3D Printed Construction
… the timbral effects that manufacturing wind instruments from thermoplastics (via 3D printing) has in comparison to traditionally made instruments. The project mainly focuses on the individual properties of different thermoplastics in comparison to traditional materials like brass. The …
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A catalogue of the brass musical instruments of the Carl Busch Collection at the University of Illinois
… Busch Collection contains approximately 250 wind instruments of the early-nineteenth through the early-twentieth centuries. Perhaps the most significant of the 119 brass instruments are a set of American Civil War Era over-the-shoulder instruments, three Antoniophones, a Besson cornophone, and …
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