Dissertation

M. Rau, Vibration and acoustic measurements of guitars with applications to luthiery, synthesis, and audio effects, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 2023.

Journal Articles

M. Rau, J. S. Abel, D. James, and J. O. Smith III, Electric-to-acoustic pickup processing for string instruments: An experimental study of the guitar with a hexaphonic pickup, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 150, no. 1, pp. 385397, 2021.

Conference Papers

M. Rau, J. O. Smith, J. S. Abel, ”A comparison of modal parameter extraction methods when applied to measurements of stringed instruments,” Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum, Turin, Italy, 2023.

T. Zhang, M. Sheinin, D. Yao Chan, M. Rau, M. O’Toole, and S. Narasimhan, “Estimating physical interactions using transient surface wave imaging,” Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023.

S. Clarke, R. Gao, M. Wang, M. Rau, J. Xu, J.H. Wang, D. James, and J. Wu, “RealImpact: A dataset of impact sound fields for real objects,” the Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023.

S. Clarke, N. Heravi, M. Rau, R. Gao, J. Wu, D. James, and J. Bohg, DiffImpact: Differentiable rendering and identification of impact sounds, in 5th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2021.

J. Chowdhury, E. K. Canfield-Dafilou, and M. Rau, Water bottle synthesis with modal signal processing, in 23rd Int. Conf. Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-20), Virtual, Sep. 911, 2020.

M. Rau, O. Das, and E. Canfield-Dafilou, Improved carillon synthesis, in 22nd Int. Conf. Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19), Birmingham, England, Sep. 26, 2019.

M. Rau and J. O. Smith III, Measurement and modeling of a resonator guitar, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, September 1317, 2019.

M. Rau and R. Hoover, Measurements of acoustic guitar top plates during the voicing process, in 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, July 7 11, 2019.

M. Rau, J. S. Abel, and J. O. Smith III, Contact sensor processing for acoustic instrument recording using a modal architecture, in 21st Int. Conf. Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-18), Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 304311, Sep. 48, 2018.

M. Rau and O. Das, An infinite sustain effect designed for live guitar performance, in Audio Engineering Society Convention 143. Audio Engineering Society, 2017.

P. Murgai, M. Rau, and J.-M. Jot, Blind estimation of the reverberation fingerprint of unknown acoustic environments, in Audio Engineering Society Convention 143. Audio Engineering Society, 2017.

M. Rau, E. Maestre, J. O. Smith, and G. Scavone, An exploration of guitar neck admittance measurements taken at different string stopping locations, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, pp. 7376, June 1822, 2017.

M. Rau and W. Woszczyk, An evaluation of two microphone techniques for bleed reduction using independent component analysis, in Audio Engineering Society Convention 141. Audio Engineering Society, 2016.

Conference Talks

C. Darabundit and M. Rau, Modeling and correction of piezoelectric string instrument pickups, in 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN, Dec 59, 2022.

M. Rau, R. Hoover, R. Barto, and J. O. Smith, A self-contained and automated tonewood measurement device, Vienna Talk on Musical Acoustics, Vienna, Austria, September 1114, 2022.

M. Rau, J. O. Smith, and D. L. James, Augmenting a single-point laser Doppler vibrometer to perform scanning measurements, in 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO, May 2327, 2022, published abstract.

M. Rau, Measurements and analysis of acoustic guitars during various stages of their construction, in 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Virtual, June 810, 2021.

M. Rau, J. S. Abel, J. O. Smith, and D. L. James, String instrument acoustic transfer processing, in 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Virtual, December 711, 2020.

M. Rau and J. O. Smith III, A comparison of nonlinear modal synthesis using a time-varying linear approximation and direct computation, in 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, December 26, 2019.

M. Rau, J. O. Smith, and J. S. Abel, String synthesis using individually modeled termination scattering filters, in 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, Canada, Nov. 59, 2018, presentation by invitation.

M. Rau and G. Scavone, Investigating the effect of body geometry on the acoustics of electric guitars, in 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2327, 2016.