CANCELLED! Patricio de la Cuadra: Flutes, bagpipes and controllers: An interdisciplinary approach to musical acoustics

 

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ABSTRACT

In this presentation I would like to review three project that show successful interdisciplinary collaborations in the field of musical acoustics: an attempt to modify the design of a notch flute looking to broaden the comfort zone of the musician by modifying the instrument within its cultural limits; a comparative study of bagpipes from Mallorca and Galicia in which we investigate how musical the bag control is, and finally a user-based methodology is proposed for the design for an innovative musical instrument, the Arcontinuo.

BIOGRAPHY

Patricio de la Cuadra is a Fulbright scholar with a Ph.D in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics, M.A. in Music, Science and Technology and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His undergraduate studies were done at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) obtaining a double degree in Electrical Engineering and flute Performance. Patricio is an accomplished musician with a Diplome d’Interpretation Superior in flute from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, who has played flute and various Chilean folk instruments in Europe, South America, Japan, Taiwan, and the US (including Carnegie Hall '94). He is currently Full Professor at the PUC where he teaches musical acoustics and co-directs the Center for Research in Audio Technologies.