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Institute for Systematic Musicology

Implementing the Radiation Characteristics of Musical Instruments in Sound Field Synthesis Applications

The radiation characteristics of musical instruments are recorded and implemented in a newly developed psychoacoustic sound field synthesis system. This system is able to create a) a natural, spatial instrumental sound with b) precise localization in c) an extended listening area while d) reducing the necessary number of loudspeakers due to e) technical implementation of psychoacoustics.

PhD Candidate

Tim Ziemer

Publications

Journal Acticles and Abstracts

Ziemer, Tim & Bader, Rolf, “Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis for Musical Instrument Radiation Characteristics”, in: J. Audio Eng. Soc. 65(6), 2017, pp. 482—496.

Böhlke, Leonie & Ziemer, Tim, “Perception of a virtual violin radiation in a wave field synthesis system”(Abstract), in: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141(5), 2017, p. 3875.

Ziemer, Tim, “Perceptually motivated sound field synthesis for music presentation”(Abstract), in: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141(5), 2017, p. 3997.

Ziemer, Tim & Bader, Rolf, “Implementing the Radiation Characteristics of Musical Instruments in a Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis System”(Abstract), in: J. Audio Eng. Soc. 63(12), 2015, p. 1094.

Ziemer, Tim, “Complex point source model to calculate the sound field radiated from musical instruments” (Abstract), in: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 138(3), 2015, p. 1936.

Ziemer, Tim, “A psychoacoustic Approach to Wave Field Synthesis”(Abstract), in: J. Audio Eng. Soc. 59(5), 2011, p. 356.

Books and Book Chapters

Ziemer, Tim, “Wave Field Synthesis”, in: R. Bader (Ed.): Springer Handbook of Systematic Musicology, Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 329—347.

Ziemer, Tim, “Source Width in Music Production. Methods in Stereo, Ambisonics, and Wave Field Synthesis”, in: A. Schneider (Ed.): Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, vol. 4 of R. Bader, M. Leman, R.-I. Godoy (Series Eds.): Current Research in Systematic Musicology, Springer: Cham 2017, pp. 299—340.

Ziemer, Tim: Implementation of the Radiation Characteristics of Musical Instruments in Wave Field Synthesis Applications [PDF], Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2015.

Ziemer, Tim,“Psychoacoustic Effects in Wave Field Synthesis Applications”, in: A. Schneider and A. v. Ruschkowski (Eds.): Systematic Musicology: Empirical and Theoretical Studies, Peter Lang 2012, pp. 153—162.

Conference Papers

Böhlke, Leonie & Ziemer, Tim, “Perceptual Evaluation of Violin Radiation Characteristics in a Wave Field Synthesis System”, in:
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. (POMA) 30(1), Acoustics '17: 173rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America and 8th Forum Acusticum, Boston (MA), Jun 2017, paper number 035001.

Ziemer, Tim, “Perceptual Sound Field Synthesis Concept for Music Presentation”: Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. (POMA) 30(1), Acoustics '17: 173rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America and 8th Forum Acusticum, Boston (MA), Jun 2017, paper number 015016.

Ziemer, Tim & Bader, Rolf,“Implementing the Radiation Characteristics of Musical Instruments in a Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis System”, in: 139th International AES Convention, New York (NY), Oct/Nov 2015, paper number 9466.

Ziemer, Tim, “Spatial Sound Impression and Precise Localization by Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis”, in: R. Mores (Ed.): Musikalische Akustik zwischen Empirie und Theorie [PDF] (Tagungsband zum Seminar des Fachausschusses Musikalische Akustik (FAMA) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA)), Hamburg, Oct 2015, p. 17—22.

Ziemer, Tim & Bader, Rolf, “Complex point source model to calcuate the sound field radiated from musical instruments”, in: Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. (POMA) 25(1), 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Jacksonville (FL), Nov 2015, paper number 035001.

Ziemer, Tim, “Exploring Physical Parameters Explaining the Apparent Source Width of Direct Sound of Musical Instruments” (Extended Abstract), in: "Musik und Wohlbefinden": 31. Jahrestagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), Oldenburg, Sep 2015, p. 40—41.

Ziemer, Tim, “Sound Radiation Characteristics of a Shakuhachi with different Playing Techniques” [PDF], in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA), Le Mans, Jul 2014, pp. 549—555.

Ziemer,Tim, “A psychoacoustic Approach to Wave Field Synthesis”, in: Audio Engineering Society Conference: 42nd International Conference: Semantic Audio, Ilmenau, Jul 2011, paper number p2-1.

Ziemer, Tim, “Wave Field Synthesis by an Octupole Speaker System” [PDF], in: L. Naveda (Ed.): SysMus09. Proceedings of the second International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology, Ghent, Nov 2009, p. 89—93.

Demonstrations

Demonstrations of the sound field synthesis systems to synthesize the radiation characteristics of musical instruments have been given at:

Teaching and Invited Talks

Ziemer, Tim, “Perceptually motivated sound field synthesis for music presentation” (Talk), held in the at the Acoustics '17 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the European Acoustics Association (EAA) 2017 in the Virtual Acoustics Session associated with Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics and the Technical Committee on Room and Building Acoustics (RBA), invited by Michael Vorländer, Stefan Weinzierl & Ning Xiang.

Ziemer, Tim, “Vector Base Amplitude Panning (VBAP) and Multiple-Direction Amplitude Panning (MDAP) and the Perception of Source Width and Location” (Workshop), held at the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Summer School 2016, invited by Georg Hajdu.

Ziemer, Tim, “Wave Field Synthesis and the Perception of Source Width and Location” (Workshop), held at the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Summer School 2016, invited by Georg Hajdu.

Wöllner, Clemens & Ziemer, Tim, “Recent Research Projects Carried out at the Institute of Systematic Musicology” (Talk), held at the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference 2016, invited by Georg Hajdu and Rolf Großmann.

Ziemer, Tim, “Praktikum Akustik” (Seminar, 3 cred. h. for BA students), held in Summer Semester 2015 and 2016 at the University of Hamburg.

Ziemer, Tim, “Übung Akustik” (Seminar, 3 cred. h. for BA students), held in Winter Semester 2014/2015 at the University of Hamburg.

Ziemer, Tim, “Raumakustik und Auralisation” (Seminar, 2 cred. h. for BA and MA students), held in Summer Semester 2014 at the University of Hamburg.

Ziemer, Tim, “Wellenfeldsynthese” (Seminar, 2 cred. h. for BA and MA students), held in Winter Semester 2013/2014 at the University of Hamburg.

Ziemer, Tim, “Psychoacoustic Wave Field Synthesis” (Tutorial), given at the Internationan Summer School of Systematic Musicology (ISSSM) 2012, invited by Rolf Bader.

Ziemer, Tim, “Synthese der Abstrahlcharakteristik von Musikinstrumenten mittels Wellenfeldsynthese", Kolloquium: Aktuelle Arbeiten in der Musikwissenschaft, Hamburg 2011, invited by Rolf Bader.

Awards and Fundings

Project Page

More information on the research project can be found on the Project Page on ResearchGate.

  • Duration: 2011-2014