Musical sound synthesis and a new music representation based on empirical physical modeling of musical instruments

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008.A digital implementation of an empirical physical modeling scheme is presented with the goal of creating a new form of music capture and re-synthesis with high fidelity and compression ratio. Research was conducted on two complementary aspects. The first was physical modeling synthesis that incorporates precise acoustical measurements of real musical instruments and computer simulation of models based on this empirical data. The second is physical modeling based analysis that is targeted at physically motivated low bandwidth control parameters extraction and sound re-synthesis. For practical reasons, a B-flat clarinet is chosen as the study object, but our approach may be similarly applied to other musical instruments. All algorithms and measurements are described in detail