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

• Year: 2009
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
• Pages: 106–109
• Keywords: Electroacoustics, flat panel
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177593 (Link to paper)
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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:

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}
}