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| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/T19582/01 |
| Title: |
Musical Acoustics Network |
| Principal Investigator: |
Professor DM Campbell |
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| Department: |
Sch of Physics and Astronomy |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 February 2005 |
Ends: |
30 June 2007 |
Value (£): |
40,869
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Acoustics |
Digital Signal Processing |
| User Interface Technologies |
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Summary |
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A musical acoustics research netwrok is proposed. The aim is to provide opportunities for meetings between scientists working in musical acoustics and musical technology, creative performers and composers, and manufacturers of musical instruments. The network will foster links between university work and the music industry. It will allow academics in the new universities, teaching vocationally-oriented courses in music technology, to exchange ideas with those working on related problems and courses in more traditional disciplines. it will allow performers on traditional acoustical instruments to meet those from the rapidly-developing electronic sector, and also the scientific community which lies behind both types of musical activity. It will promote collaborative projects between the key disciplines of physical science, electronic engineering and computer science, psycology, music theory and ethnomusicology, education and therapeutics.
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| Final Report Summary |
A musical acoustics research netwrok is proposed. The aim is to provide opportunities for meetings between scientists working in musical acoustics and musical technology, creative performers and composers, and manufacturers of musical instruments. The network will foster links between university work and the music industry. It will allow academics in the new universities, teaching vocationally-oriented courses in music technology, to exchange ideas with those working on related problems and courses in more traditional disciplines. it will allow performers on traditional acoustical instruments to meet those from the rapidly-developing electronic sector, and also the scientific community which lies behind both types of musical activity. It will promote collaborative projects between the key disciplines of physical science, electronic engineering and computer science, psycology, music theory and ethnomusicology, education and therapeutics.
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A Musical Acoustics Network has been created in the United Kingdom, with the financial support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The aim of the Network is to provide opportunities for meetings and exchanges of information and ideas between scientists working in musical accoustics and musical technology, creative performers and composers, and manufacturers of musical instruments. The Network currently has 130 members.
The success and utility of musical acoustics research depends critically on the development of sustained and informed dialogue between scientists, performers and instrument makers, with appropriate input from a wide range of disciplines inlcuding physics, mathematics, psychology, medicine, engineering and informatics. Since its inception in early 2005 the Musical Acoustics Network has had a major impact on the extent and quality of this dialogue in the United Kingdom, and has contributed greatly to the development of contacts between research groups in the UK and in other countries.
Over the last 30 months the Network has organised a series of six one-day Workshops and two two-day Conferences, in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Bradford, Belfast, and Milton Keynes. The topics addressed by these meetings have spanned the areas of major concern to Network members: the development of a clearer understanding of the factors determining violin quality, the evolution of more reliable scientific techniques for measuring, modelling and optimising wind instruments, the impact of scientific studies on performing techniques in music, the development of better musical instruments for disabled performers, and the use of physical models of musical instruments in sythesis, composition and performance. The Network has supported short exchange visits by a number of young researchers between laboratories in the United Kingdom and other European countries. It has also supported a collabotation which emerged from a Network meeting between the composer and sound designer Martin Parker and the tetraplegic musician Clarence Adoo, resulting in the performance of the world premiere of a new work at a festivad in Porto, Portugal.
The Network has fostered links between university work and the music industry, especially in the area of wind instrument acoustics. It has also allowed academics in the new universities, teaching vocationally-oriented courses in music technology, to exchange ideas with those working on related problems and courses in more traditional disciplines. It has allowed performers on traditional acoustical instruments to meet those from the rapidly-developed electronic sector, and also the scientific community which lies behind both types of musical activity.
The Network has contributed to the dissemination of musical acoustics research by assisting in the organisation of special sessions at recent and forthcoming conferences of the UK institute of Acoustics. It has raised the international profile of UK research through its collaboration with the French Acoustical Society in the organisation of a Franco-British two-day conference in London, and through its links with the Technical Committees for Musical Acoustics of the European Acoustics Association and the Acoustical Society of America. A number of leading European and American acousticians and instrument makers have been invited speakers at Network meetings, and these contacts have opened the prospects for further exchanges and collaborations.
At its recent meeting in Edinburgh, members of the Network thanked EPSRC for its funding support in the last 30 months, and voted enthusiastically to continue the activities of the Network in the future. Reports of past activities and future plans can be found on the Network website: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/acoustics/MAN
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.ed.ac.uk |
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