Numerical Restoration of Historical Musical Instruments

Non-Iterative Numerical Simulation Techniques for Nonlinear String Vibration in Musical Acoustics

Author(s): Riccardo Russo
Published in: PhD Dissertation, University of Bologna, 2025
Publisher: University of Bologna
DOI: 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/12127

From Accessible Musical Instrument Plates Characterization Towards an Analysis Framework for Historical Instruments

Author(s): Sebastian Duran
Published in: PhD Dissertation, University of Bologna, 2026
Publisher: University of Bologna
DOI: 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/12892

Open Methods for Digital Conservation of Musical Instruments

Author(s): Matthew Hamilton
Published in: PhD Dissertation, University of Bologna, 2026
Publisher: University of Bologna
DOI: 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/12890

Fast simulation of the Kirchhoff-Carrier string with an energy-storing boundary condition using a Scalar Auxiliary Variable approach

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi, Alexis Mousseau, Stefan Bilbao, Riccardo Russo
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 220-225, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.284

Explicit exactly energy-conserving methods for Hamiltonian systems

Author(s): Stefan Bilbao; Michele Ducceschi; Fabiana Zama
Published in: Journal of Computational Physics, Issue 00219991, 2023, ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111697

Affordable wide-band measurement ecosystem for musical acoustics based on electro-dynamic transducers

Author(s): Ludovico Ausiello, Michele Ducceschi, Sebastian Duran, Benjamin Morrison
Published in: Acta Acustica, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 53, ISSN 2681-4617
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/aacus/2024045

Scalar Auxiliary Variable Techniques for Nonlinear Transverse String Vibration

Author(s): Riccardo Russo, Stefan Bilbao, Michele Ducceschi
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 160-165, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.274

Establishing a benchmark for comparative analysis of thin and thick plate modal frequencies: A non-dimensional paradigm

Author(s): Sebastian DURAN, Henna TAHVANAINEN, Michele DUCCESCHI
Published in: INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Issue 270, 2025, Page(s) 6086-6097, ISSN 0736-2935
Publisher: Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE)
DOI: 10.3397/in_2024_3682

Simulation of the geometrically exact nonlinear string via energy quadratisation

Author(s): Ducceschi, Michele; Bilbao, Stefan
Published in: Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022, Page(s) 117021-117040, ISSN 0022-460X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117021

A method to estimate the rectangular orthotropic plate elastic constants using least-squares and Chladni patterns

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi, Sebastian Duran, Henna Tahvanainen, Ludovico Ausiello
Published in: Applied Acoustics, Issue 220, 2025, Page(s) 109949, ISSN 0003-682X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2024.109949

MAGPIE: a web-based, open-source framework for plate vibration analysis

Author(s): Matthew HAMILTON, Michele DUCCESCHI, Alexis MOUSSEAU, Sebastian DURAN
Published in: INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Issue 270, 2024, Page(s) 5918-5929, ISSN 0736-2935
Publisher: Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE)
DOI: 10.3397/in_2024_3662

Numerical convergence of the scalar auxiliary variable method applied to nonlinear stiff string models

Author(s): Riccardo Russo, Michele Ducceschi, Stefan Bilbao
Published in: Nonlinear Dynamics, Issue 114, 2026, ISSN 0924-090X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-026-12708-0

Non-Iterative Simulation Methods for Virtual Analog Modelling

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi; Stefan Bilbao
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Issue 23299290, 2022, ISSN 2329-9290
Publisher: IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity
DOI: 10.1109/taslp.2022.3209934

Evaluating CPU, GPU, and FPGA performance in the context of modal reverberation: a comparative analysis

Author(s): Romain Michon, Michele Ducceschi, Pierre Cochard, Travis Skare, Craig J. Webb, Riccardo Russo
Published in: Frontiers in Signal Processing, Issue 5, 2025, ISSN 2673-8198
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/frsip.2025.1522604

The Dynamic Grid: Time-Varying Parameters for Musical Instrument Simulations Based on Finite-Difference Time-Domain Schemes

Author(s): Silvin Willemsen; Stefan Bilbao; Michele Ducceschi; Stefania Serafin
Published in: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Issue 15494950, 2022, ISSN 1549-4950
Publisher: Audio Engineering Society
DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2022.0043

Non-dimensional modal analysis of musical instrument plates

Author(s): Sebastian Duran, Henna Tahvanainen, Michele Ducceschi
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 158, 2025, Page(s) 4159-4173, ISSN 1520-8524
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
DOI: 10.1121/10.0039882

Models of musical string vibration

Author(s): Stefan Bilbao; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: ACOUSTICAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 2023, ISSN 1347-5177
Publisher: ACOUSTICAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1250/ast.44.194

Acoustic analysis of a well-preserved Renaissance music space: The Odeo Cornaro in Padua

Author(s): Giulia Fratoni, Dario D’Orazio, Michele Ducceschi, Massimo Garai
Published in: Acta Acustica, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 25, ISSN 2681-4617
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/aacus/2024017

A Two-Register Haptic Interface for Articulated Control of Harpsichord Physical Models

Author(s): Matthew Hamilton; Riccardo Russo; Craig J. Webb; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of Forum Acusticum / Euronoise 2025, 2025
Publisher: European Acoustics Association

Simulation Of The Snare-membrane Collision In Modal Form Using The Scalar Auxiliary Variable (Sav) Method

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi;Matthew Hamilton;Riccardo Russo
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, 2023
Publisher: European Acoustics Association

Fast Explicit Algorithms for Hamiltonian Numerical Integration

Author(s): Stefan Bilbao; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of ENOC 2022 - 10th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, 2022
Publisher: ENOC

A Physical Model of the Trombone Using Dynamic Grids for Finite-Difference Schemes

Author(s): Silvin Willemsen; Stefan Bilbao; Michele Ducceschi; Stefania Serafin
Published in: 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2021, 2021, Page(s) 152 - 159, ISBN 978-3-200-08378-3
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
DOI: 10.23919/dafx51585.2021.9768286

Fast Estimation Of Wood Elastic Constants Using Least-squares

Author(s): Sebastian Duran; Michele Ducceschi; Henna Tahvanainen; Ludovico Ausiello
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum 2023), 2023
Publisher: European Acoustics Association

Measurement-Informed Nonlinear Modal Synthesis of 65 Classical Guitars

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi; Riccardo Russo; Craig J. Webb
Published in: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx26), 2026
Publisher: DAFx

MIMO Room Impulse Response Analysis and Synthesis Through a Modal-Domain Approach: Application to a Reverberation Chamber

Author(s): Giulia Fratoni; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2026 - 12th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, 2026
Publisher: European Acoustics Association

Real-time gong synthesis

Author(s): Stefan Bilbao; Craig J. Webb; Zehao Wang; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 2023
Publisher: Digital Audio Effect (DAFx)

Efficient simulation of acoustic physical models with nonlinear dissipation

Author(s): Riccardo Russo; Michele Ducceschi; Stefan Bilbao; Matthew Hamilton
Published in: Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2023, 2023
Publisher: Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2023)

Experimentally-tuned Synthesis Of A Thin Plate

Author(s): Sebastian Duran; Michele Ducceschi; Henna Tahvanainen; Ludovico Ausiello
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Real-time simulation of the struck piano string with geometrically exact nonlinearity via a scalar quadratic energy method

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi; Stefan Bilbao; Craig J. Webb
Published in: 10th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC2020), 2022
Publisher: ENOC2020

Non-iterative schemes for the simulation of nonlinear audio circuits

Author(s): M. Ducceschi ; S. Bilbao ; C.J. Webb
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Conference of Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-20in21), 2022, Page(s) 25-32
Publisher: DAFx
DOI: 10.23919/dafx51585.2021.9768254

"""See Link for More Details"": Towards a Pragmatic Open Methodology at NIME"

Author(s): Matthew Hamilton, Michele Ducceschi, Stefan Bilbao
Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME '26), 2026
Publisher: NIME
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20784119

Augmentation of a Historical Harpsichord Keyboard Replica for Haptic-Enabled Interaction in Museum Exhibitions

Author(s): Matthew Hamilton; Michele Ducceschi; Roberto Livi; Catalina Vicens; Andrew McPherson
Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME '25), 2025
Publisher: NIME
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15698916

Role of shift constant in Energy Shifted SAV for Hamiltonian Systems

Author(s): Fabiana Zama;Michele Ducceschi;Stefan Bilbao
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences, 2023
Publisher: IOP Publishing

Real-Time Implementation of Non-Linear Physical Models with Modal Synthesis and Performance Analysis

Author(s): Cerioli, Alessandro; Cuccecschi, Michele; Serafin, Stefania
Published in: 2nd Nordic Sound and Music Computing Conference (NordicSMC), 2021
Publisher: NordicSMC
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5723927

Applications Of Port-Hamiltonian Methods To Non-iterative Stable Simulations Of The Korg35 And Moog 4-pole VCF

Author(s): D. Mohammed; S. Bilbao; M. Ducceschi
Published in: 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), 2021, 2021, Page(s) 33-40
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.23919/dafx51585.2021.9768301

Efficient Simulation of the Bowed String in Modal Form

Author(s): Riccardo Russo; Michele Ducceschi; Stefan Bilbao
Published in: 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2022, 2022
Publisher: DAFx

On the use of tonewood leftovers for the elastic constants estimation of musical instruments top plates

Author(s): Sebastian Duran, Henna Tahvanainen, Ludovico Ausiello, Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America joint with 25th International Congress on Acoustics, Issue 56, 2025, Page(s) 035010
Publisher: ASA
DOI: 10.1121/2.0002084

From CT scans to FEM: influence of CAD model complexity on the modal analysis of a small kantele

Author(s): Sebastian Duran; Michele Ducceschi; Henna Tahvanainen
Published in: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (International Symposium on Musical Acoustics 2026, ISMA 2026), 2026
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America

A Corpus-Driven Parametric Modal Reverberator

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi; Leonardo Gabrielli; Riccardo Simionato; Riccardo Russo
Published in: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx26), 2026
Publisher: DAFx

The coupled rooms of Odeo Cornaro (1534) as support for Renaissance musicians and soloists

Author(s): Giulia Fratoni; Dario D'Orazio; Michele Ducceschi, Massimo Garai
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), 2022
Publisher: ICA

Variable bracing patterns to tune soundboards and membrane speakers

Author(s): Ludovico Ausiello; Martino Pani; Sebastian Duran; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of Acoustic 2023, 2023
Publisher: Institute of Acoustics

Real-Time Guitar Synthesis

Author(s): Stefan Bilbao; Riccardo Russo; Craig Webb; Michele Ducceschi
Published in: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24), 2024
Publisher: DAFx

Convergence analysis and relaxation techniques for modal scalar auxiliary variable methods applied to nonlinear transverse string vibration

Author(s): Riccardo Russo, Craig J. Webb, Michele Ducceschi, Stefan Bilbao
Published in: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, International Symposium on Music and Room Acoustics, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 035007
Publisher: ASA
DOI: 10.1121/2.0002073

Efficient synthesis of large room impulse responses in the modal domain

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi, Craig J. Webb, Giulia Fratoni
Published in: 2025 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA), 2025, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/i3da65421.2025.11202053

Real-time modal synthesis of nonlinearly interconnected networks

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi;Stefan Bilbao;Craig J. Webb
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 2023
Publisher: Digital Audio Effects (DAFx)

Spatial modal reverberation

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi, Craig Webb, Matteo Gualeni, Riccardo Russo
Published in: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (International Symposium on Musical Acoustics 2026, ISMA 2026), 2026
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America

Efficient simulation of the yaybahar using a modal approach

Author(s): Riccardo Russo; Michele Ducceschi; Stefan Bilbao
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx23)

Dynamic Grids for Finite-Difference Schemes in Musical Instrument Simulations

Author(s): Silvin Willemsen; Stefan Bilbao; Michele Ducceschi; Stefania Serafin
Published in: 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2021, 2022, Page(s) 144 - 151
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.23919/dafx51585.2021.9768302

Eigenvalue Problems and Modal Schemes in Musical Acoustics: A Tutorial

Author(s): Michele Ducceschi
Published in: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Physics of Musical Instruments Applied to Instrument Making, 2026, Page(s) 253-314
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-16900-6_7

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