An Electroacoustically Controlled Vibrating Plate

Mark Kahrs, David Skulina, Stefan Bilbao, and Murray Campbell

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Large vibrating plates are used as thunder sheets in orchestras. We have extended the use of flat plates by cementing aflat panel electroacoustic transducer on a large brass sheet.Because of the thickness of the panel, the output is subject tononlinear distortion. When combined with a real-time inputand signal processing algorithm, the active brass plate canbecome an effective musical instrument for performance ofnew music.

Citation

Mark Kahrs, David Skulina, Stefan Bilbao, and Murray Campbell. 2009. An Electroacoustically Controlled Vibrating Plate. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177593

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Kahrs2009,
 abstract = {Large vibrating plates are used as thunder sheets in orchestras. We have extended the use of flat plates by cementing aflat panel electroacoustic transducer on a large brass sheet.Because of the thickness of the panel, the output is subject tononlinear distortion. When combined with a real-time inputand signal processing algorithm, the active brass plate canbecome an effective musical instrument for performance ofnew music.},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {Kahrs, Mark and Skulina, David and Bilbao, Stefan and Campbell, Murray},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177593},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Electroacoustics, flat panel },
 pages = {106--109},
 title = {An Electroacoustically Controlled Vibrating Plate},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_106.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}