Search for dissertations about: "musical transient"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words musical transient.

  2. 1. Never Heard Before: A Musical Exploration of Organ Voicing

    Author : João Segurado; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; voicing; voicing; sound; listening; pipe; organ; tone; musical composition; musical performance; experimental; collaboration; artistic research; ethnography; musique concrète; transient; attack; steady-state; ; harmonic spectrum; languid; toe-hole; mouth; flue; reed; Studio Acusticum; Gerald Woehl; Piteå;

    Abstract : This study describes the role of organ sounds in musical performance and exa- mines the visions and artistic perspectives of the voicer, who creates the sounds, and the organist, who uses them in performance. Organ pipe sounds are shaped in a process of gradual transformation called voicing, to suit the practice of musical performance, and they influence that practice in significant ways. READ MORE

  4. 2. The bowed string

    Author : Knut Guettler; KTH; []
    Keywords : Bowed string; violin; musical acoustics; musical transient; anomalous low frequencies; Helmholtz motion;

    Abstract : Of the many waveforms the bowed string can assume, theso-called "Helmholtz motion" (Helmholtz 1862) gives the fullestsound in terms of power and overtone richness. The developmentof this steady-state oscillation pattern can take manydifferent paths, most of which would include noise caused bystick-slip irregularities of the bow-string contact. READ MORE