Virtual prototyping of musical instruments: development of a decision-support platform for string instruments manufacturing.
Presenter: Dr. Guilherme Paiva, Dr. Rodolfo Thomazelli e Guilherme Fontebasso
The musical instruments manufacturing involves several design demands related both to the instrument's structural capacity, as well as to the desired sound and aesthetic attributes. Although there have been, for at least two decades, technologies available to assist these projects, much of what has been done is the empirical reproduction of consolidated models: a process that makes innovation difficult because it is often based on trial and error methods. Computational tools, therefore, are useful because they allow a certain level of prediction of the instrument's structural behavior and the sound that will be produced, enabling the reduction of both the time and costs involved in the instrument's design and construction.
In this context, the startup Turbonius R&D has been dedicated to developing a computational platform (Urutau Platform) implemented in the cloud to support designers and builders of musical instruments on small and large scales. In this presentation, the architecture of the computational environment under development will be briefly described, as well as the methods used for modeling and synthesizing stringed musical instruments.
In order to verify the applied methodology, comparisons between synthesized sounds and the corresponding sounds obtained experimentally are presented. Finally, preliminary examples of the application of the computational platform in the design of a stringed musical instrument are shown.
When: October 5th, 2021
Where: https://meet.jit.si/CompmusSeminário (just in case of technical difficulties, we will use as an alternative address https://meet.google.com/vhb-wfxh-pwt)