From: drew mccallum (andrew.l.mccallum@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 20:12:14 EDT
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String theory (musical variant) -
(Discusses String pick up - of Multiple axis string sensors)
www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/ICMC2000/pdf/pickup.pdf
(Discusses Non Linear String Theory - Cross modulation etc)
lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2000/isbn9512251965/article5.pdf
On 25-Jul-07, at 7:40 PM, Kamen Zenov wrote:
> Thanks Drew!
>
> Problem wiith rubber bands is they don't sustain alot, are not made
> of metal, not cylindric in shape (although they become more and
> more round as they are being stretched). I have 2 basses actually,
> i'll see what i can do with them.
>
>
>
> Still digesting your link (tnx),
>
>
> |K
>
>
>> From: drew mccallum <andrew.l.mccallum@gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: eamt@concordia.ca
>> To: eamt@concordia.ca
>> Subject: Re: Cross Modulation
>> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:12:14 -0400
>>
>> While not directly linked, this might allow for different
>> perspectives.
>>
>> http://www.cesiumsound.com/GestureSynthesis.html
>>
>> Might I suggest that you recreate your experiment with rubber
>> bands, this might allow for focused listening of the effect as
>> opposed to the colored listening of affect.
>>
>> The instruments you are dealing with have bodies that sound, as
>> much as the strings.
>>
>> drew
>>
>> On 25-Jul-07, at 6:26 PM, Kamen Zenov wrote:
>>
>>> So we're interested in strings crossing perpendicularly while
>>> vibrating
>>>
>>> Strings being side by side and only touching when both are vibrating
>>>
>>> Strings interlaced into a single dna-like spiral being plucked
>>>
>>>
>>> also possibly combinations of these
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Of interest:
>>>
>>> http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~jykke/publications/
>>> Nonlinear_string_FINSIG03.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: "Kamen Zenov" <buddha_killah@hotmail.com>
>>>> Reply-To: eamt@concordia.ca
>>>> To: eamt@concordia.ca
>>>> Subject: Cross Modulation
>>>> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:08:09 -0300
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone tried preparing a piano with another piano? That is,
>>>> instead of hammers hitting the string, you have a (vibrating)
>>>> string hitting the string.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A string is vibrating at 261.6 Hz (C). Another string is
>>>> vibrating at 392.0 Hz (G). While they are vibrating, you
>>>> literally cross them, that is, string C's center comes in
>>>> contact with string G's center.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to model this interaction? There are many phase-
>>>> games at play here, plus the fact that they cross ``at the
>>>> octave`` (center).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you have a guitar, try taking the 2 lowest or highest
>>>> strings and have the lower touch and pass over the higher, then
>>>> hold that ``knot`` and play a ``note``.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> on my bass guitar, i definitely hear a ring mod-type timbre,
>>>> with the strings hitting each other asymmetrically while
>>>> rattling on the frets. Sitar-like droning, too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it's like when people meet and talk, ideas cross-mod and the
>>>> result is a conversation!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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