Topic
Microsound
About: Microsound is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 38 publications have been published within this topic receiving 324 citations. The topic is also known as: micro sound & Micromontage.
Papers
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of five popular and crossover music genres spanning the period from the late 1990s to the present is presented to examine how the internet has augmented the creative, aesthetic, communicative and social dimensions of music.
Abstract: How is the internet transforming musical practices? In this article, through a study of five prominent popular and crossover music genres spanning the period from the late 1990s to the present, we examine how the internet has augmented the creative, aesthetic, communicative and social dimensions of music. Analysing the internet-based practices associated with these genres poses methodological and theoretical challenges. It requires new research tools attentive to the online practices involved in their creation and reception. To this end we adapt the Issue Crawler software, an established digital method that analyses networks of hyperlinking on the world-wide web. In addition, it requires a theoretical framework that can respond to music’s profuse mediations in the digital environment. We propose that a version of genre theory offers such a framework. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications of our analysis for theorising music and place and for historical periodization after the internet.
77 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical and experimental progress on topographic guides for the development of surface wave microsound systems is reviewed, and some preliminary results on topographical guides are presented.
Abstract: An important requirement for the development of surface wave microsound systems is the ability to guide the energy. The theoretical and experimental progress towards this aim is reviewed. Some preliminary results on topographic guides are presented. Measurement techniques make use of phase-sensitive laser probes to detect the CW surface waves. The technique permits very accurate determination of dispersion characteristics.
74 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of acoustic analogs of conventional microwave transmission line (microsound) components on the surface of crystal and substrates is discussed and the current status of critical problems including the epitaxial growth of thin films and submicron etching procedures are given.
Abstract: Surface acoustic wave components have been realized which perform the functions of transduction, amplification, and coupling. Applications are suggested which make use of these components. Exploratory work in connection with surface acoustic waveguides suggests the feasibility of acoustic analogs of conventional microwave transmission line (microsound) components on the surface of crystal and substrates. These microsound transmission lines, hybrids, and directional couplers interconnect microsound transducers, amplifiers, isolators, and phase shifters to form microsound circuits capable of autocorrelation, Fourier transformation, and cross correlation functions. Compatible component configurations are proposed and evaluated which perform these basic functions. The anticipated difficulties with their realization are discussed and the current status of critical problems including the epitaxial growth of thin films and submicron etching procedures will be given. Several circuits capable of performing correlation functions are given.
56 citations
1 Oct 1969
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical and experimental progress on topographic guides for the development of surface wave microsound systems is reviewed, and some preliminary results on topographical guides are presented.
Abstract: An important requirement for the development of surface wave microsound systems is the ability to guide the energy. The theoretical and experimental progress towards this aim is reviewed. Some preliminary results on topographic guides are presented. Measurement techniques make use of phase-sensitive laser probes to detect the CW surface waves. The technique permits very accurate determination of dispersion characteristics.
49 citations
1 Jul 2012
TL;DR: This work presents a practical data-driven method for automatically synthesizing plausible soundtracks for physics-based cloth animations running at graphics rates and demonstrates its effectiveness on a variety of cloth animations involving various materials and character motions, including first-person virtual clothing with binaural sound.
Abstract: We present a practical data-driven method for automatically synthesizing plausible soundtracks for physics-based cloth animations running at graphics rates. Given a cloth animation, we analyze the deformations and use motion events to drive crumpling and friction sound models estimated from cloth measurements. We synthesize a low-quality sound signal, which is then used as a target signal for a concatenative sound synthesis (CSS) process. CSS selects a sequence of microsound units, very short segments, from a database of recorded cloth sounds, which best match the synthesized target sound in a low-dimensional feature-space after applying a hand-tuned warping function. The selected microsound units are concatenated together to produce the final cloth sound with minimal filtering. Our approach avoids expensive physics-based synthesis of cloth sound, instead relying on cloth recordings and our motion-driven CSS approach for realism. We demonstrate its effectiveness on a variety of cloth animations involving various materials and character motions, including first-person virtual clothing with binaural sound.
36 citations
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| 2021 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2 |