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| Paper: | AE-P5.8 |
| Session: | Applications to Music II |
| Time: | Friday, May 21, 09:30 - 11:30 |
| Presentation: |
Poster |
| Topic: |
Audio and Electroacoustics: Applications to Music |
| Title: |
TIMBRAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN VOWELS AND PLUCKED STRING TONES |
| Authors: |
Caroline Traube; McGill University | | |
| | Philippe Depalle; McGill University | | |
| Abstract: |
Classical guitarists vary plucking position to achieve different timbres from nasal and metallic -- closer to the bridge -- to round and mellow -- closer to the middle of the string. An interesting set of timbre descriptors commonly used by guitarists seem to refer to phonetic gestures: thin, nasal, round, open, ... The magnitude spectrum of guitar tones being comb-filter shaped, we propose to see the local maxima of that comb filter structure as vocal formants. When guitarists talk about a guitar sound as being round, it would mean that it sounds like a 'round-shaped-mouth' sound such as the vowel /o/. Although the acoustical systems of the guitar and of the voice mechanism are structurally different, we highlight the fact that guitar tones and a particular set of vowels display similar formant regions. We also investigate the possibility of applying some distinctive features of speech sounds to guitar sounds. |
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