Introduction to musical acoustics and its applications (instrument making, music, digital audio). Physical and perceptive aspects of musical signals will be studied. Musical instruments are designed to generate sounds the frequencies of which can be accurately controlled. Studying and modelling their physics allow to highlight how sound can be generated. We will model acoustical and mechanical resonators, free oscillations, and self-sustained oscillations of wind and bowed string instruments. Electro-acoustic analogies will be introduced and applied to the modelling of microphones, loudspeakers or resonators.
• Introduction to musical acoustics Properties of musical sounds (signal, physics, perception)
• Classification of musical instruments from the physical viewpoint Free oscillations musical
instruments (percussions, piano, plucked string, …)
• Wind instruments (resonators, brass, reed, flute, …), bowed string, self-sustained oscillations
(stability, bifurcations, …)
• Electroacoustic analogy, application to acoustic resonators and electroacoustic devices
Digital audio, sound synthesis, signal processing of musical sounds