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    Musical instruments work by exciting sound waves through an energy source like a bow or breath, which are carried by a wave-guide like strings or air columns. These waves resonate in an instrument's resonator, like a sound box or body, which modifies the waves' timbre through sympathetic oscillations called formants. Modern electric instruments negate the need for resonance chambers, producing a harsher sound preferred in some genres. While digital imitation can theoretically recreate any sound with sinusoids, challenges include replicating temporal variations, non-linearities, damping, feedback, and formants. The increasing use of digitally produced music prompts debate around its impacts and relationship to music's purpose.

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    Musical instruments work by exciting sound waves through an energy source like a bow or breath, which are carried by a wave-guide like strings or air columns. These waves resonate in an instrument's resonator, like a sound box or body, which modifies the waves' timbre through sympathetic oscillations called formants. Modern electric instruments negate the need for resonance chambers, producing a harsher sound preferred in some genres. While digital imitation can theoretically recreate any sound with sinusoids, challenges include replicating temporal variations, non-linearities, damping, feedback, and formants. The increasing use of digitally produced music prompts debate around its impacts and relationship to music's purpose.

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    LCC3403 Poster Evolution of Sound FINAL

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    Musical instruments work by exciting sound waves through an energy source like a bow or breath, which are carried by a wave-guide like strings or air columns. These waves resonate in an instrument's resonator, like a sound box or body, which modifies the waves' timbre through sympathetic oscillations called formants. Modern electric instruments negate the need for resonance chambers, producing a harsher sound preferred in some genres. While digital imitation can theoretically recreate any sound with sinusoids, challenges include replicating temporal variations, non-linearities, damping, feedback, and formants. The increasing use of digitally produced music prompts debate around its impacts and relationship to music's purpose.

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    The Evolution of Sound: Musical Instruments from Bach to Auto-tune

    THE ORIGINAL THE IMPERSONATOR


    Excitation Source – energy input Electric Musical Instruments
    • Violin bow, plectrum, hammer or player’s “…..Use of amplifiers negates the need for
    resonance chambers. This also leads to a
    breath.
    harsher, more tin-like sound often preferred in
    Wave-guide – oscillator more modern music.”
    The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed.
    • Guitar string, flute air column
    • When the system oscillates in a steady DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
    periodic fashion it produces a complex • What makes a violin sound different from a THE FRANKENSTEIN
    waveform that can be expressed in terms of a cello? A trumpet from a French Horn?
    fundamental frequency and harmonics. In theory, any instrument sound can be
    emulated with six sinusoids operating as
    Resonator –takes energy away from the wave- • What makes digital imitation so difficult?
    frequency modulators of each other. 
    guide to produce sound (sound box, bell or body Problems
    of the instrument) • Do you feel that the increasing prevalence • Temporal variations of components?
    of digitally produced music is a good thing • Non-linearities?
    • The resonator will oscillate in it’s own way in or a bad thing? Why? • Damping, feedback and second order
    sympathy with the wave-guide so changing the
    oscillation of the wave-guide and modifying the resonance?
    • What is the purpose of music? How do the • Formants?
    resulting timbre. The sympathetic oscillating different forms of music production work
    properties of the resonator are often referred Solution
    toward that purpose? EMBRACE imperfect nature of digital
    to as formants.
    imitation of acoustic instruments
    • These formants have an important bearing on
    the quality of the sound produced.

    LCC 3403
    Brandon Lewis

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