RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on ACOUSTICS & MUSIC: THEORY & APPLICATIONS (AMTA '10) "G. Enescu" University, Iasi, Romania, June 13-15, 2010 WSEAS Mechanical Engineering Series A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks Published by WSEAS Press www.wseas.org Copyright 2010, by WSEAS Press All the copyright of the present book belongs to the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Editor of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All papers of the present volume were peer reviewed by two independent reviewers. Acceptance was granted when both reviewers' recommendations were positive. See also: http://www.worldses.org/review/index.html ISSN: 1790-5095 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2 World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society

Editors: Prof. Viorel Munteanu, G. Enescu University, Romania Prof. Razvan Raducanu, Al. I. Cuza University, Romania Prof. Gheorghe Dutica, G. Enescu University, Romania Prof. Anca Croitoru, Al. I. Cuza University, Romania Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University, Romania International Program Committee Members: Eugene Kindler, Czech Republic Nikos E. Mastorakis, Bulgaria Lamberto Tronchin, Italy Juan A. Gallego-Juarez, Spain Radu Voinea, Romania Tudor Sireteanu, Romania Malcolm J. Crocker, USA Luige Vladareanu, Romania Veturia Chiroiu, Romania Dionysios Politis, Greece Polidor Bratu, Romania Ion Magheti, Romania

Preface This year the 11th WSEAS International Conference on ACOUSTICS & MUSIC: THEORY & APPLICATIONS (AMTA '10) was held at "G. Enescu" University, Iasi, Romania, June 13-15, 2010. The conference remains faithful to its original idea of providing a platform to discuss mathematical models in acoustics, acoustics measurements, sound insulation, space acoustics, electronics for sound art and technology, ambiophonics, psychoacoustics, mathematical models in music, computers in music composition, pattern recognition in music, automatic music composition, biological effects of music, mathematical analysis of musical instruments etc. with participants from all over the world, both from academia and from industry. Its success is reflected in the papers received, with participants coming from several countries, allowing a real multinational multicultural exchange of experiences and ideas. The accepted papers of this conference are published in this Book that will be indexed by ISI. Please, check it: www.worldses.org/indexes as well as in the CD-ROM Proceedings. They will be also available in the E-Library of the WSEAS. The best papers will be also promoted in many Journals for further evaluation. A Conference such as this can only succeed as a team effort, so the Editors want to thank the International Scientific Committee and the Reviewers for their excellent work in reviewing the papers as well as their invaluable input and advice. The Editors

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Table of Contents Plenary Lecture 1: Synthesized Music Instruments can Play a Significant Role in Digital Signal Processing Education Roxana Saint-Nom 11 Plenary Lecture 2: Conceiving Music Today: Manifold Compositions, DISSCO and Beyond 12 Sever Tipei Soundscape Music: Sub-Genre of New-Age Music 13 Yun Wang, Zhiyong Deng, Ran Deng Design of an Acoustic Anechoic Chamber for Application in Hearing Aid Research 18 Marc S. Ressl, Pablo E. Wundes Measurement of The Sound-Absorption Coefficient on Egg Cartons Using the Tone Burst Method Quintero Rincon Antonio 24 Vertical Non-linear Vibrations of the Automobiles 30 Nicolae-Doru Stanescu, Ion Tabacu, Stefan Tabacu Using the Root Proportion to Design an Oud 35 Mitra Jahandideh, Shahab Khaefi, Ahanali Jahandideh, Masoud Khaefi Using the Golden Section to Design a Kamanche 40 Shahab Khaefi, Mitra Jahandideh, Ahanali Jahandideh, Masoud Khaefi Vibro-Acoustics of Violins Based on a Multi-Physic Approach 46 Enrico Ravina The Fourier Transform of Some Distributions from D'(R) and D'(R^2) with Applications in Mechanics Antonela Toma The Effect of the Acoustics of Sound Control Rooms on the Perceived Acoustics of a Live Concert Hall Recording C. C. J. M. Hak 51 55 The Clarinet of the 20th Century in March for Solo Clarinet Adaptation After Martian Negrea 61 Felix Constantin Goldbach The Modal-Harmonic Algorithm. Pattern and Transformation 67 Diana-Beatrice Andron The Functional Tonal Musical System and its Mathematical Acoustical Basis 73 Dan Buciu ISSN: 1790-5095 7 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Mathematical Models for Analysing Diatonic Modes 79 Gabriel Bulancea The Music Space 83 Carmen Chelaru Several Representative Musical Manuscripts in Byzantine and Psaltic Notation in the Rare Books Section at Central University Library in Iasi Irina Zamfira Danila 87 Chromatic Patterns of Sounds Waves in Java Applets Coloured Sounds 92 Stela Dragulin, Livia Sangeorzan, Mircea Parpalea The Modal Palindrome - A Structural Matrix and A Generative Mechanism 98 Gheorghe Dutica Beneficial Subliminal Music: Binaural Beats, Hemi-Sync and Metamusic 103 Rosina Caterina Filimon Music as A Dramaturgical Component of The Opera Elektra by Richard Strauss 109 Loredana Iatesen Neural Correlates of Music Perception and Cognition 114 Dorina Iusca Conceptions of Learning and Teaching in Music Education as Voiced by Pre-Service Student Teachers Mihaela Mitescu Lupu "Trio for Violin, Double Bass and Piano" (1991) by Ghenadie Ciobanu - An Original Musical Interpretation of Some Events Recorded in the Holy Scripture Victoria Melnic, Cristina Paraschiv 120 126 One Modal Pattern, Three Compositional Entailments 132 Cristian Misievici D.I.M.A. On-Line Multimedia Resources for Music Education 138 Nedelcut Nelida On the Relationship Between Music and 20th Century Abstract Mathematics 144 Claudia Nezelschi Interdisciplinary Didactical Strategies of the Musical Education from Integrated Education Perspective, in Early Ages Pasca Eugenia Maria 149 Reflections on the Opera "La Deuxieme Aventure (celeste) de Monsieur Antipyrine" 155 Ioan Pop Genesis of the Chords 161 Constantin Ripa The Relationship Between Sound/Sonority and Time/Temporality in the Structuring of the Modern Musical Form Laura Vasiliu 166 ISSN: 1790-5095 8 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Baroque Reflections in "Ludus Tonalis" by Paul Hindemith 171 Vlahopol Gabriela Links Between Mathematical Models and Musical Texture in Xenakis's Achorripsis 176 Fani Kosona, Razvan Raducanu Diathlassis, for Flute Solo: A Composition Based on an Application of the Mathematical Model of Cusp Catastrophe Fani Kosona 182 Performance Anxiety in Piano Playing 186 Raducanu Cristina Andra Musical and Spiritual Affinities: Olivier Messiaen and Eduard Terenyi 190 Anamaria Madalina Hotoran Conceiving Music Today: Manifold Compositions, DISSCO and Beyond 196 Sever Tipei On the Improvement of Statistical Traffic Noise Prediction Tools 201 Joseph Quartieri, Gerardo Iannone, Claudio Guarnaccia Acoustical Noise Analysis in Road Intersections: A Case Study 208 Claudio Guarnaccia Church Acoustics Measurements and Analysis 216 Joseph Quartieri, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Claudio Guarnaccia, Gerardo Iannone On the Determination of the Uncertainty in Environmental Noise Measurements 225 Alessandro Ruggiero, Adolfo Senatore, Pierpaolo D Agostino, Tony L. L. Lenza Authors Index 231 ISSN: 1790-5095 9 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC ISSN: 1790-5095 10 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Plenary Lecture 1 Synthesized Music Instruments can Play a Significant Role in Digital Signal Processing Education Professor Roxana Saint-Nom Electrical Engineering Department Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires ARGENTINA E-mail: saintnom@itba.edu.ar Abstract: Teaching signal processing to senior undergraduate students can be an enjoyable task, provided that you are willing to spend some time to introduce them to digital music. Leaded by a motivated R+D group in Acoustics or Audio, all you need is signal processing students who have good MATLAB programming skills and filter theory. My talk will be focused in two topics: 1. How to emphasize Signal Processing concepts through digital music. I will describe a laboratory assignment where students have to synthesize musical instruments in different ways: additive, FM, through physical modeling and using wavetables. I will give examples and achievements along the years. 2. Digital Music as Audio and Acoustics research themes source Music projects in electrical engineering environments tend to be well received. I will show several subjects that became appropriate for sponsored projects or students contents. It is interesting to remark that mixing engineering and music help develop the cultural brackground of students, creates an unstructured space where new ideas emerge easily, and turns mathematics into a more friendly resource. Brief Biography of the Speaker: She received her Electrical Engineering degree in 1987 from the University ITBA (Buenos Aires Institute of Technology), Argentina. She achieved a Masters degree in Speech Processing from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, where she is currently finishing her Ph.D thesis on Speaker Verification. Since 1988 she has been holding academic positions in Argentina, until she became tenured faculty in the rank of the Full Professor in 2004. Since 2007 she is the Electrical Engineering Department Chair at ITBA. She is also the Director of a Master s degree joint program on Engineering Education (ITBA-Universidad de Mendoza- Universidad de Granada, Spain). Her research area is primarily Signal Processing, Speech and Education as subareas. In recent years she started research groups in different areas, such as speaker verification, acoustics, DSP applications and EMC. She is the author of more than 20 papers, mostly in the area of signal processing education, published in reviewed journals or presented at international conferences such as IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ISCAS, IASTED and WSEAS. She is a technical reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and IEEE ICASSP Proceedings and SSIP IASTED Proceedings. She is an active senior member of the IEEE. She is the founder of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Argentina Chapter, from which she is currently Chair (2008-2009), she is the IEEE SPS Education Technical Committee Chair (2007-2009), she is a SPS Conference Board Member and an IEEE SPS Lensing Oversight Committee Member. ISSN: 1790-5095 11 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Plenary Lecture 2 Conceiving Music Today: Manifold Compositions, DISSCO and Beyond Professor Sever Tipei Manager Computer Music Project of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios Composition-Theory Division School of Music University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign IL, USA E-mail: s-tipei@uiuc.edu Abstract: Manifold compositions consist of all actual and potential variants of a work that contains elements of indeterminacy and is generated by a computer reading the same data for each variant. The relationship between manifolds and classes of composition is discussed and a tool (DISSCO) unifying composition and sound synthesis is presented along with some of its components such as stochastic distributions and sieves. Deterministic and random processes facilitate by DISSCO are shown to correspond to an implicit worldview and the role of the computer is described as that of a collaborator complementing the skill of the human composer. It is also shown how musical compositions can be described as complex dynamic systems and two related projects are proposed: a "sound fountain", an ever changing stream of sounds, and a "brewing" piece continuously re-arranging its parts in search of an nonexistent optimal solution. Brief Biography of the Speaker: Sever Tipei is a composer and theorist whose main fields are Computer Music and Music Formalization. He teaches at the University of Illinois and manages the Computer Music Project of the Experimental Music Studios. Most of his compositions were produced with software he designed and implemented at Argonne National Laboratory and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on high performance computers and in the CAVE virtual environment. Tipei's papers have appeared in the Computer Music Journal, Leonardo, and in proceedings of various International Computer Music Conferences. His music is recorded on Centaur, Veriatza, and University of Illinois albums. As a pianist, he has performed in the United States, Korea, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Romania, and recorded for the ORION label. ISSN: 1790-5095 12 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2

RECENT ADVANCES in ACOUSTICS & MUSIC Authors Index Andron, D.-B. 67 Misievici, C. 132 Buciu, D. 73 Nelida, N. 138 Bulancea, G. 79 Nezelschi, C. 144 Chelaru, C. 83 Paraschiv, C. 126 D Agostino, P. 225 Parpalea, M. 92 Danila, I. Z. 87 Pasca, E. M. 149 Deng, R. 13 Pop, I. 155 Deng, Z. 13 Quartieri, J. 201, 216 Dragulin, S. 92 Quintero, R. A. 24 Dutica, G. 98 Raducanu, C. A. 186 Filimon, R. C. 103 Raducanu, R. 176 Goldbach, F. C. 61 Ravina, E. 46 Guarnaccia, C. 201, 208, 216 Ressl, M. S. 18 Hak, C. C. J. M. 55 Ripa, C. 161 Hotoran, A. M. 190 Ruggiero, A. 225 Iannone, G. 201, 216 Sangeorzan, L. 92 Iatesen, L. 109 Senatore, A. 225 Iusca, D. 114 Stanescu, N.-D. 30 Jahandideh, A. 35, 40 Tabacu, I. 30 Jahandideh, M. 35, 40 Tabacu, S. 30 Khaefi, M. 35, 40 Tipei, S. 196 Khaefi, S. 35, 40 Toma, A. 51 Kosona, F. 176, 182 Vasiliu, L. 166 Lenza, T. L. L. 225 Vlahopol, G. 171 Lupu, M. M. 120 Wang, Y. 13 Mastorakis, N. E. 216 Wundes, P. E. 18 Melnic, V. 126 ISSN: 1790-5095 231 ISBN: 978-960-474-192-2