Acquisition and Study of Blowing Pressure Profiles in Recorder Playing

Francisco García, Leny Vinceslas, Josep Tubau, and Esteban Maestre

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents a study of blowing pressure profilesacquired from recorder playing. Blowing pressure signalsare captured from real performance by means of a a lowintrusiveness acquisition system constructed around commercial pressure sensors based on piezoelectric transducers.An alto recorder was mechanically modified by a luthierto allow the measurement and connection of sensors whilerespecting playability and intrusiveness. A multi-modaldatabase including aligned blowing pressure and sound signals is constructed from real practice, covering the performance space by considering different fundamental frequencies, dynamics, articulations and note durations. Once signals were pre-processed and segmented, a set of temporalenvelope features were defined as a basis for studying andconstructing a simplified model of blowing pressure profilesin different performance contexts.

Citation:

Francisco García, Leny Vinceslas, Josep Tubau, and Esteban Maestre. 2011. Acquisition and Study of Blowing Pressure Profiles in Recorder Playing. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178025

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Garcia2011,
 abstract = {This paper presents a study of blowing pressure profilesacquired from recorder playing. Blowing pressure signalsare captured from real performance by means of a a lowintrusiveness acquisition system constructed around commercial pressure sensors based on piezoelectric transducers.An alto recorder was mechanically modified by a luthierto allow the measurement and connection of sensors whilerespecting playability and intrusiveness. A multi-modaldatabase including aligned blowing pressure and sound signals is constructed from real practice, covering the performance space by considering different fundamental frequencies, dynamics, articulations and note durations. Once signals were pre-processed and segmented, a set of temporalenvelope features were defined as a basis for studying andconstructing a simplified model of blowing pressure profilesin different performance contexts.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Garc\'{\i}a, Francisco and Vinceslas, Leny and Tubau, Josep and Maestre, Esteban},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178025},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {blowing,instrumental gesture,multi-modal data,pressure,recorder,wind instrument},
 pages = {124--127},
 title = {Acquisition and Study of Blowing Pressure Profiles in Recorder Playing},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_124.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}