Quelques aspects de la musique originale de piano à quatre mains vers 1760-1830
An investigation is reported, in an experimental synthetic acoustic field, of the frequently observed effect that during a concert performance, on a change from piano to forte, a previously absent echoic interference occurs. The results show that a nonlinearity with respect to sound intensity is responsible for the effect.
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"Lover" (Richard Rodgers) is from The Elevox Open Jazz Competition Grand Prize Album. This recording is in the grand old two-fisted (stride) jazz piano style of Art Tatum and my teacher, Oscar Peterson. Notice the musical quotes, a part of this tradition: at the opening, "Oh, Sweet Mystery of Life, at Last I've Found Thee!" and at the very end, the...
Audio recording of: Entropy by Christopher DobrianFor Yamaha Disklavier (computer-controlled piano) and computer graphics
In all string instruments, the sound is radiated as a result of the coupling of the strings with a plate. In the case of the piano the energy given by the hammer to the string, flows through the bridge to the soundboard which dissipates it into internal losses and sound power. Thus the soundboard acts like a mecano-acoustic transducer. In this stud...