Search for dissertations about: "extended timbre"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words extended timbre.

  2. 1. Orchestrating timbre – Unfolding processes of timbre and memory in improvisational piano performance

    Author : Magdalena Mayas; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; extended timbre; improvisation; composition; inside piano; prepared piano; listening; timbral memory; spatialization; gesture; choreography; musical perception; embodied musical performance; artistic research;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis presents how the orchestration of timbre is investigated from a performer’s perspective as means to “unfold” improvisational processes. It is grounded in my practice as a pianist in the realm of improvised music, in which I often use preparations and objects as extensions of the instrument. READ MORE

  4. 2. Sound Quality of Flue Organ Pipe. An Interdisciplinary Study on the Art of Voicing

    Author : Vincent Rioux; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; listening tests; psychoacoustics; verbal descriptors; flue organ pipes; musical acoustics; sound quality; deterministic stochastic separation; timbre; time-frequency analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a research study carried out in collaboration with a department of applied acoustics, a department of musical acoustics and an organ workshop. The description of the sound quality of flue organ pipes has received fairly little attention either in organ-building or scientific literature, despite its importance in the overall quality of the instrument, probably due to the difficulties inherent in doing so. READ MORE

  5. 3. The influence of music on hearing. A study in classical and rock/jazz musicians

    Author : Kim R. Kähäri; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Hearing disorders; hearing loss; tinnitus; hyperacusis; distortion; diplacusis; hearing in musicians; hearing development; psychosocial exposure; stress in musicians;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to assess hearing and hearing disorders among classical and rock/jazz musicians. Pure tone audiometry was performed in 140 classical and 139 rock/jazz musicians. READ MORE

  6. 4. Methods for specification of sound quality applied to saxophone sound

    Author : Arne Nykänen; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Teknisk akustik; Engineering Acoustics;

    Abstract : Product specifications that include descriptors of sound qualities are most helpful when a description contains adequate detail and utilises understandable wording. Good specifications require that any descriptions used are familiar to users and that these descriptions are interpretable as acoustical quantities. READ MORE