Tamara's On-Line Publications (see Curriculum Vitae for complete list of publications)

2008

[1]

Tamara Smyth, Review of Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Vol. 2, by Gareth Loy. Organized Sound, December 2008, 13:03, 271-273. pdf.

[2]

Tamara Smyth and Alireza Fathi, ``Voice Synthesis Using the Generalized Pressure-Controlled Valve, '' Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 08), Belfast, Ireland, August 2008. pdf / ps.

2007

[3]

Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, ``Convolutional Synthesis of Wind Instruments,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA'07), New Paltz, New York, October 2007. pdf / ps.

[4]

Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, ``Modeling and Measurement of Wind Instrument Bores,''Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 07), Madrid, Spain, September 2007. pdf / ps.

[5]

Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, ``Extending the Generalized Reed Model with Measured Reflection Functions,'' Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 07), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007. pdf / ps.

2006

[6]

Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, ``Observing the effects of waveguide model elements in acoustic tube measurements,'' 152nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), November--December 2006, presentation by invitation. Presentation slides in pdf.

[7]

Tamara Smyth, Tom N. Smyth, and Arthur E. Kirkpatrick, ``Exploring the virtual reed parameter space using haptic feedback,'' in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2006), Victoria BC, Canada, October 2006, pp. 45-49, Invited paper. pdf / ps

[8]

Tamara Smyth,``A handheld acoustic filter bank for musical control,'' in Proceedings of NIME 2006, Paris, France, June 2006, Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression, pp. 314-317. pdf / ps

2005

[9]

Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, ``A generalized parametric reed model for virtual musical instruments,'' in Proceedings of ICMC 2005, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005, pp. 347-350. pdf / ps

2004

[10]

Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, ``Musical effects of the digital pressure-controlled valve,'' San Diego, California, November 2004, Acoustical Society of America, vol. 116, p. 2563, presentation by invitation. Presentation slides in pdf.

[11]

Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, ``The feathered clarinet reed,'' in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx'04), Naples, Italy, October 2004, pp. 95-100. pdf / ps

[12]

Gamhewage C. de Silva, Tamara Smyth, and Michael J Lyons, ``A novel face-tracking mouth controller and its applications to bioacoustic models,'' in Proceedings of NIME 2004, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2004, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 169-172. Available from citeseer here.

[13]

Tamara Smyth, Applications of Bioacoustics to Musical Instrument Technology, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, April 2004.

2003

[14]

Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, ``A musical controller based on the cicada's efficient buckling mechanism,'' Journal of New Music Research, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 361-368, December 2003.

[15]

Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, ``Feathered collisions in beating reed simulation,'' Austin, Texas, November 2003, Acoustical Society of America, vol. 114, p. 2325, presented by invitation. Press paper available at http://www.acoustics.org/press/146th/Smyth.htm. Presentation slides in pdf.

[16]

Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, ``Discrete-time simulation of air-flow cut-off in pressure-controlled valves,'' in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA'03), New Paltz, New York, October 2003, pp. 229-232. pdf / ps

[17]

Jonathan Abel, Tamara Smyth, and Julius O. Smith, ``A simple, accurate wall loss filter for acoustic tubes,'' in DAFX 2003 Proceedings, London, UK, September 2003, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pp. 53-57. pdf / ps

[18]

Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, ``The estimation of birdsong control parameters using maximum likelihood and minimum action,'' in Proceedings of SMAC 03, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2003, Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, pp. 413-416. pdf / ps

2002

[19]

Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, ``The syrinx: Nature's hybrid wind instrument,'' in CD-ROM Paper Collection, Cancun, Mexico, September 2002, Pan-America/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics. pdf / ps

[20]

Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, ``The sounds of the avian syrinx--are they really flute-like?,'' in DAFX 2002 Proceedings, Hamburg, Germany, September 2002, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pp. 199-202. pdf / ps

[21]

Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, ``Creating sustained tones with the cicada's rapid buckling mechanism,'' in Proceedings of NIME 2002, Dublin, Ireland, May 2002, Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression, pp. 112-115. pdf / ps

2001

[22]

Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, ``A musical instrument based on a bioacoustic model of a cicada,'' in Proceeding of ICMC 2001, Havana, Cuba, September 2001, International Computer Music Conference, pp. 174-177. pdf / ps

[23]

Patricio De la Cuadra, Tamara Smyth, Chris Chafe, and Han Baoqiang, ``Waveguide simulation of neolithic Chinese flutes,'' in Proceedings of ISMA 2001, Perugia, Italy, September 2001, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, pp. 181-184. pdf / ps

[24]

Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, ``Applications of bioacoustics in physical modeling and the creation of new musical instruments,'' in Proceedings of ISMA 2001, Perugia, Italy, September 2001, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, pp. 267-270. pdf / ps