conferência - Sociedade Portuguesa de Acústica

Computers combined with acoustic sensors
now make it possible to measure various
properties of musical instruments at low
cost. This talk examines the functioning of
brass instruments like the trumpet from the
viewpoints of the acoustical engineer, the
performer, and the instrument maker. The
engineer can take an instrument and
measure its acoustic input impedance and
impulse response as well as the tones
produced when it is played. The performer
can evaluate the effects of changes in the
construction of the instrument to help the
maker improve it. Topics covered include
the mathematical modelling of these
instruments and what is known about how
variations in the construction of an
instrument affect its playing characteristics.
Local: LNEC, Av. do Brasil nº 101,
Lisboa|entrada livre
2/2/2012 |17:30h-19:00h
Can science make music beautiful?
by Dr. Robert Pyle, S. E. Shires Co.
Informações:
964793777
[email protected]
Organização e apoio:
ANIMUSIC-Associação Nacional de
Instrumentos Musicais
UnIMeM / Universidade de Évora
SPA-Sociedade Portuguesa de Acústica
FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a
Tecnologia (I&D; FACC)
CONFERÊNCIA
Dr. Pyle worked for nearly 30 years for the
acoustics consulting firm of Bolt, Beranek,
and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA. Among other projects, he worked on
the NASA space program in the 1960s, on
the joint US/UK Sonar Research Program
in the 1970s, and on the ArpaNet (the
ancestor of today’s InterNet) in the 1980s.
At the end of 1994 he helped start the S. E.
Shires Co., manufacturers of professional
trombones and trumpets.