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Tommaso Bianco PhD Defense

Nouvelle publiée le 13 janvier 2012

Gestural Control in Trumpet Performance: Experiments and Modeling. January 26 at 10am.

This thesis entitled "Gestural Control in Trumpet Performance: Experiments and Modeling" was carried out as a member of the Real-Time Musical Interactions team at IRCAM.

Abstract

This thesis focuses on trumpet performance. In particular, we analyze the way performers interact with the instrument in order to control the production of musical tones.

Our study begins by analyzing the experimental measurements of real trumpet players. The results are then employed to model the temporal profiles of the measured parameters. This allows us to elaborate novel strategies for the control of sound – particularly for sound synthesis based on physical models – on two fronts.

From a musical composition standpoint, we propose a framework for the generation of a gestural score, that is for the conversion of discrete musical units – the notes – into continuous profiles – the profiles of variables involved in the control of sound.

From a real-time control standpoint, we elaborate new methodologies for the mapping between gestures and sound in the case of interaction with physical interfaces.

In our research we give particular emphasis to the aspects of motor control that concern the mechanisms underlying musical performance.

From on hand, we evaluated the gestural variations for the production of notes with different dynamics and performance rate.

From the other hand, we studied the bio-mechanical and cognitive influences that emerge from the gestural profiles when multiple gestural units are serially ordered.
Beside contributing to a better comprehension and to possible pedagogical suggestions for the human behavior in musical performance, this thesis also presents novel directions for improving the control of virtual instruments.

Jury

Réné Caussé, Director, IRCAM, Paris
Frédéric Bevilacqua, Supervisor, IRCAM, Paris
Marcelo Wanderley, Reviewer, McGill University, Montreal
Rolf Inge Godøy, Reviewer, University of Oslo
Sylvie Gibet, Examiner, VALORIA-IRISA, Vannes
Benoît Fabre, Examiner, UPMC, Paris

• Date: Thursday, January 26 at 10am
• Venue: IRCAM, Igor-Stravinsky Room