MUMT 618: Final Projects

Student projects for this course could involve:

vibrational or acoustic analyses of music instruments
modeling of acoustic systems for sound synthesis or acoustic analysis
development of digital effects (ex., reverberation) algorithms using Max/MSP, STK, or Matlab
perceptual evaluation of some aspect of a musical instrument or sound effect
conversion of old SynthBuilder patches to STK
literature review on a particular acoustic phenomenon

Project presentations and reports should include:

a quick summary of your objectives / motivation
the project design / methodology
particular issues that proved challenging / rewarding
example usage / demo (if appropriate)
clear citations for tools or resources used that were created by others

As well, all code or patches developed for the project should be linked to the report for download.

Grading will be based on:

presentation (10%): organization, clarity, description of the motivation and general methodology for the project, demonstration of example usage or results
web write-up (10%): well documented / organized, grammatically correct, describes methodology, must cite tools or resources developed by others, discuss problematic issues, contributions, possible improvements or future work
research and/or development (15%): appropriateness of approach, quality of results, scope, diligence, effort

Project reports will be linked to this page once they are finished. HTML reports are preferred but PDF versions are fine too. Projects that are more implementation-intensive can have shorter reports (4-5 pages), while ones that are more of a literature review should be longer (8-10 pages). You are allowed to make use of code examples you find online but it is imperative that you properly reference and give credit to the work of others that you have made use of.

Alex Chiriboga:	A Comparison of Spatial Audio Loudspeaker Reproduction Techniques
Fred Kelly:	Dattorro's Reverb: A Matlab Implementation
Xinmeng Luan:	A Preliminary Experiment on Near-Field Sound Pressure Measurements of Vibrating Objects
Kai Mikkelsen:	Leslie Speaker Simulation
Danilo Pesevic:	Tape-Echo with Physically Informed Tape Modelling
Liam Pond:	Singing Voice Synthesis of Latin Chants
Mai Lyn Puittinen:	Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Applied to Perceptual and Neural Modelling: Literature Review
Colin Raab:	WaveVerb: Hybrid Waveguide Reverb Network
Alexandre St-Onge:	A Sandbox Application to Experiment with 2D Digital Waveguide Mesh
Cole Thierrin:	Modeling a Vox Continental
Michael Zajner:	Matlab Model of the Echoplex EP-4 Tape Delay
Hanwen Zhang:	Synthesizing a Piano Sustain Pedal Effect