Descripción del proyecto
La digitalización de instrumentos musicales históricos
Preservar y restaurar los instrumentos musicales históricos únicos es un proceso cada vez más complejo para las colecciones de los museos. Estos objetos no solo son importantes como artefactos preciosos, sino también por su función: producir música y sonidos poco comunes. Se necesita un conocimiento detallado de los sistemas y las propiedades de los materiales para preservar ambas características. Sin embargo, el uso de la tecnología digital adoptada en los museos sigue siendo limitado para garantizarlo. El proyecto NEMUS, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará un enfoque novedoso para digitalizar instrumentos musicales basado en modelos acústicos y matemáticos. Permitirá emulaciones en tiempo real de aquellos instrumentos musicales históricos que ya no están en condiciones de ser tocados. NEMUS utilizará métodos numéricos convencionales, como los esquemas de diferencias finitas, que también permitirán la interacción del músico con el instrumento.
Objetivo
The conservation, restoration and maintenance of rare and precious musical instruments is currently problematic, and will become increasingly so in the future: most instruments in museum collections are already out of playing condition, and deteriorating to the extent that their unique sounds will eventually be lost. Curators are well aware of the ethical problems associated with restoration and maintenance, and digital technology offers a solution to the problem of saving the sound of historical musical instruments. However, current digitisation practices are largely inadequate for a deeper understanding of musical instruments, as they have so far been limited to photogrammetric or sampling techniques. The applicant believes that museum collections would benefit from a new approach to digitising musical instruments. A comprehensive understanding of musical instruments can only be achieved by a focused acoustical and mathematical study, ultimately yielding a wealth of efficient and realistic simulation techniques which could be used for real-time emulation: this is the context in which NEMUS will operate. By developing the most advanced mathematical models yet describing sound propagation and transmission in musical instruments, NEMUS will create sustainable, durable and realistic digital emulations of historical musical instruments that are currently out of playing condition. NEMUS will also generate computer-aided simulation studies of a number of harpsichords of the Ruckers/Couchet tradition, to complement organological studies on Ioseph Ioannes Couchet craftmanship. For the first time, complex musical systems will be solved under real-time, on standard consumer hardware, using mainstream numerical methods such as finite difference schemes, including the player’s interaction with the instrument. Appropriate controllers with haptic feedback will be devised, so as to facilitate use in virtual and augmented reality environments.
Ámbito científico
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
40126 Bologna
Italia