links - acoustics & perception
Javier Torres Maldonado - links selection
Acoustics, musical instruments, psicology and perception
Acoustics of brass instruments (lip reeds): an introduction
University of New South Wales.
A paradox of musical pitch
by Deborah Smith
Audition: Cognitive Psychology of Music
by Stephen McAdams
Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound
by Albert S. Bregman
Auditory Scene Analysis, Auditory Research, Music Cognition links
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Clarinet Acoustics
A site dedicated to understanding the clarinet, University of New South Wales.
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Deutsch's Musical Illusions
by Diana Deutsch
Dotting your ears: Some implications of the kerning illusion in the study of performance practice.
Emery Schubert and Dorottya Fabian, University of New South Wales (pdf link.)
Didgeridoo acoustics/ yidaki acoustics
University of New South Wales.
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Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the piano
by A. Askenfelt
Flute Acoustics
A site dedicated to understanding the flute, University of New South Wales.
The Virtual Flute
(Predict notes and multiphonics, alternate fingering, trill or microtone, search for a multiphonic fingering)
“Fundamental Issues in the Evolutionary Psychology of Music”: a review
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Guitar Acoustics
University of New South Wales.
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Illusions and Paradoxes, Seeing is Believing?
This page illustrates that our visual perception cannot always be trusted.
Illusions and perception
(pdf link)
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Knowledge in perception and illusion
(pdf link)
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Morphologie et acoustique du piano
René Caussé
Mouthpieces and bells
What is a forced harmonic sequence and what effects do the mouthpiece and bell really have?
Music ala Brass
Essays on Brass Physics in the 90's by Nick Drozdoff
Musical Calculator Software (+ handbook as PDF-file)
The Musical Calculator is a usefull plug-in, programmed by Werner Winkler, Institut für Wiener Klangstil (Musikalische Akustik). Its features include: transposition (all clefs) graphic represantation of notes relation between frequency, temperature and wavelength.
Musical Instruments:
Applications of musical acoustics
Information about orchestral instruments
Musical Instruments; Their Differences and Similarities Found Using Physics
R. Tilghman, J. Ogulnik, N. Aglikin and K. Tamura
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Non linear Dynamics and Chaos in Musical Instruments
Neville H. Fletcher
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The Physics of Musical Instruments
Internet Links
The perception of musical sound
by Jean-Claude Risset
Physiscs of music and musical instruments table of contents
Created by David Lapp
Physics in Speech
An introduction to some of the physics in speech (including some notes about helium speech) by Joe Wolfe
Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Psychology (Past)
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Russian (Soviet) research works in musical acoustics
Bibliography collected by Alexander Galembo
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Saxophone acoustics: an introduction
University of New South Wales
Schilke Brass Clinic
The Physics of Inner Brass and the Acoustical Effects of Various Materials and Their Treatment, by Renold O. Schilke
The Shepard Scale, the Tritone Paradox and the Risset Scale
An Introduction to Circular Pitch and the Shepard Scale
(pdf link)
The Tritone paradox and Shepard scales
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Tudy of the reed mechanism of brass instruments using an artificial mouth
by M. A. Neal, O. Richards, D. M. Campbell, J. Gilbert (pdf link).
Department of Physics, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
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Vanishing illusion
an interestong link
Violin Acoustics
University of New South Wales
Vocal Tract Acoustics
by Joe Wolfe
Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review of Models and Selected Research
Julius O. Smith (CCRMA), Department of Music, Stanford University
