Music 256a/CS 476a | Fall 2016
Lecture 4: Digital Lutherie - Designing "Modern" Musical Instruments
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University
What's a luthier?
Different times, different tools
"Traditional" purely acoustic musical instrument
"Hybrid" instrument
"Typical" electronic musical instrument
Skills transfer - the sad truth: people are lazy!
Simpler is Better
Physical modeling and custom music interfaces
Smule's Ocarina: a good example of reconciliation between interface and sound generator
Sepcial case: notion of composed instrument
