Dinosaur Choir: Adult Corythosaurus

Courtney Brown, and Cezary Gajewski

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Lambeosaurine hadrosaurs are duck-billed dinosaurs known for their large head crests encasing elaborate nasal passages. Researchers hypothesize these large crests were resonators for their vocalizations. Dinosaur Choir brings these calls to life as singing dinosaur musical instruments. Musicians and participants give voice to these dinosaur instruments by blowing into a mouthpiece, exciting a syrinx (bird vocal box) computational model and resonating the sound through the dinosaur’s nasal cavities and skull.

Citation

Courtney Brown, and Cezary Gajewski. 2025. Dinosaur Choir: Adult Corythosaurus. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17801164 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2025_music_35,
 abstract = {Lambeosaurine hadrosaurs are duck-billed dinosaurs known for their large head crests encasing elaborate nasal passages. Researchers hypothesize these large crests were resonators for their vocalizations. Dinosaur Choir brings these calls to life as singing dinosaur musical instruments. Musicians and participants give voice to these dinosaur instruments by blowing into a mouthpiece, exciting a syrinx (bird vocal box) computational model and resonating the sound through the dinosaur’s nasal cavities and skull.},
 address = {Canberra, Australia},
 articleno = {35},
 author = {Courtney Brown and Cezary Gajewski},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17801164},
 editor = {Sophie Rose and Jos Mulder and Nicole Carroll},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 note = {Installation},
 numpages = {4},
 pages = {138--141},
 presentation-video = {https://vimeo.com/1026355696},
 title = {Dinosaur Choir: Adult Corythosaurus},
 track = {Music},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_music_35.pdf},
 year = {2025}
}