1986-1987-1988 - Centro di Sonologia Computazionale Università di Padova Corsi di Informatica Musicale PSICOACUSTICA PER LA MUSICA INFORMATICA

Centro di Sonologia Computazionale Università di Padova

Courses in Music Computer Science

PSYCHOACUSTICS FOR COMPUTER MUSIC

The objectives of the course are to provide musicians who use numerical techniques of experience on a science that has now proved indispensable for the understanding of the phenomena involved in musical perception. The course is developed through theoretical lessons and guided workshops that will touch psychoacoustics from its fundamentals to the most recent investigations with particular attention to musical problems.

Teachers: Roberto Doati, Sylviane Sapir, Daniele Torresan

Attendance to the C.S.C. course is recommended. “Techniques and methods of computer music.”

Course program:

1) Psychophysiological concepts of sound

2) Anatomy of the ear

3) Frequency recognition and differential discrimination

4) First order beat; critical band

5) Distortion of the auditory system; harmonic aural

6) Multiple stimulation; combination sounds

7) Effects of the second order

8) The threshold of audibility and pain, intensity discrimination

9) Height according to intensity; acoustic masking

10) Directionality of sound

11) Perception of the timbre, timbre spaces

12) Subjective factors of perception

13) Sequential and simultaneous organization of structures

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14) Music application of the results of psychoacoustic studies

15) Guided laboratory on tests with System 4i and the Music System