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Control of natural and synthetic instrumental sounds

Work Description/Objectives

This project's goal is to move forward in the comprehension of the control of both real musical instruments and their physical synthesis models, while maintaining the relationship between the rules of instrument making and playing as well as the physical and perceptive characteristics of the sounds made. The project focuses on the study of transitions, a phenomena extremely difficult to study an model, in the context of wind instruments.

The participating IRCAM research teams have oriented their work in terms of the following objectives:

• simplified modeling of wind instrument resonators so that they can be used in real-time and and controlled through the resolution of inverse problems (the calculation of variations of the playing parameters in order to produce a given recorded sound),
• design and production of a musician-robot. Development of the existing artificial mouth in order to perform reproductable measurements on real wind instruments with different types of mouthpieces and with different types of excitations, but which can also be used to musical ends as an artificial performer in concert.

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