Wilfried Kausel: Musical Acoustics Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna)

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When: December 18, 2012 @ 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Where: Room 2.33, Informatics Forum, Crichton Street, University of Edinburgh

Seminar Title

Musical Acoustics Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna)

Seminar Abstract

Prof Wilfried Kausel is from the Institute of Musical Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. He will present a talk covering the many fascinating research projects currently being undertaken in his Group in Vienna. Topics will include:

  • Measuring tongue and finger coordination in saxophone performance (Hofmann)
  • Zooming into finger technique on the piano by Motion capturing (Goebl, Palmer)
  • Modeling the acoustical effect of wall vibrations of brass wind instrument bells (Kausel, Chatziioannou, Moore)
  • Efficiency of brass wind instruments in theory and practice (Kausel, Beauchamp, Carral)
  • Estimation of clarinet reed parameters by inverse modelling (Chatziioannou, Walstijn)
  • Viola da Gamba modelling using the Finite Element Method (Chatziioannou, Kausel, Drescher, Hirsch)
  • 16th-century Trombone Mouthpieces and Their Acoustical Significance (Vereecke)
  • The Chemical Composition of Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg Brass for Musical Instruments (Vereecke, Fruehmann, Schreiner)

The Institute has a website at http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/.