Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of sound sources, sound propagation, applications of sound waves, noise control, etc.
Music is the art of organizing sounds
Music acoustics is a meeting place for science, art and technology
Read Music Acoustics - A recent field of research with roots in ancient Greece by Gregor Widholm
L’acoustique est à l’interface de plusieurs domaines de la physique
selon le domaine d’application, le milieu de propagation, le type de source, on s’intéresse également au domaines suivants :
Électricité , Matériaux, Médecine, Géologie, Traitement du signal, Musique, Architecture, Perception, … etc.
Computer softwares to design new instruments, optimization of existing instruments, new materials, electroacoustic and/or electronic instruments, hybrid / smart instruments (with sensors, actuators and active control), measurement tools (mechanics, vibrations, acoustics), analysis and modelling to replicate ancient instruments, …
Synthetizers, physical modelling based synthesis, sound analysis, signal processing, sound design, musical signal analysis + psychoacoustics -> compressed audio formats (mp3, AAC, ogg, opus, …)
Music acoustics is also related to audio numerics and electroacoustics : Sound recording engeenering, loudspeakers, microphones, sound spatialisation, …
Signal processing and synthesis softwares: Knowledge on sound and psychoacoustics contributes largely to contemporary music Analysis and control tools
Music acoustics is related to scientific knowledge and applications
Musical instruments are complex sound sources that result from decades or centuries of optimization to produce sound at well controlled frequencies
Studying musical instruments is helpful to understand sound sources, noise generation and noise control in general, for any application.
Examples:
An exhaust muffler is a cylindrical pipe with sideholes … like a flute or a clarinet
The stick/slip excitation is the excitation mechanism involved in the violin bow string interaction, but also in the noise generation by a slipping chair on the floor, or in noise generated by wipers on a car windshield
R&D for musical instruments manufacturing, multimedia devices, entertainment industry (music, , smartphone applications, sound design (multimedia, subjective perception of the quality of objects/devices/vehicles/ect), virtual acoustics, electroaoustics (loudspeakers, microphones, sound spatialisation equipment, 3D sound standards), … innovation in general, …
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