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Do, 29 Juni 2006 10:34 |
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Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon
Physics : June 28, 2006
http://www.physorg.com/news70722951.html
http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/1-MariKimura.jpg
Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon
Mari Kimura in the echo free chamber at the University Hospital
in Tromsø. Photo: Maja Sojtaric
Mari Kimura is an acclaimed Japanese violinist who has the rare
ability of producing strange sounds with her instrument. She
doesn’t know how this is possible, but a team of scientists at
University of Tromsø (Norway) are confident in finding an answer
to the puzzle.
Mari Kimura is a New York based solo violinist that usually
lectures at the acknowledged Juilliard School of Music. She is
one of the extremely few people who can produce controlled
subharmonic tones on violin. Kimura has developed this trait to a
signature feature in her compositions and improvisations. The
sounds she plays on violin are usually found in a cello.
"I have done this for ten years, and the researchers in US and
Japan have tried to figure it out for as long. I don’t really
know what it is I do, because I have an empirical approach to it.
It all happens by the method of trial and error", says Kimura.
Solving the mystery
Scientists from Stanford, Columbia and Tokyo University are
amongst those who found the phenomenon interesting. However they
did not have the necessary combination of competence within
physics, as well as interest in music, to be able to work
exhaustingly on figuring out Kimura’s subharmonic violin pitch.
In Tromsø however Kimura found the right kind of scientists that
can measure and explain the phenomenon.
"We have definitely what it takes to solve this mystery. We have
worked with strange and exotic sound systems earlier, and we have
the ability to make good measurements, correct theoretical
modelling and of course the necessary musical insight and
interest", says the physics professor Alfred Hanssen.
Mutual advantage
The precise measurements of the Kimura’s low-pitched sounds were
made at the echo free chamber at the University Hospital. By
applying even pressure on the string by use of fine and steady
movements of the bow Kimura can conjure many different tones from
one place on the string. Measurements of these fascinating sounds
will be used in research for years to come.
"Kimura makes a violin string vibrate in a totally new way. In
physics we call this a driven and damped non-linear system, which
we are particularly preoccupied with in our research. By
understanding the way she plays the violin, we are contributing
to understanding of similar processes in the nature", says Hanssen.
Mari Kimura too hopes to take advantage of the results that
professor Hanssen and his assistants, PhD candidate Heidi
Hindberg and post.doc Tor Arne Øigård achieve with their
scientific approach.
"My ambition is to find out if there is more that I can do, if
there is something to reach for. As an artist you are always
searching for ways to expand the sound, to expand the use of
violin as an instrument".
Source: By: Maja Sojtaric, University of Tromsø
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| Re: off-topic: Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon - controlled subharmonic t [message #293265 ] |
Do, 29 Juni 2006 23:21 |
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Frank would love to record this!!
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| Re: off-topic: Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon- controlled subharmonic to [message #293266 ] |
Fr, 30 Juni 2006 01:30 |
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Shrike! wrote:
> Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon
>
> Physics : June 28, 2006
> http://www.physorg.com/news70722951.html
>
> http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/1-MariKimura.jpg
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> Mari Kimura is a New York based solo violinist that usually lectures at
> the acknowledged Juilliard School of Music. She is one of the extremely
> few people who can produce controlled subharmonic tones on violin.
> Kimura has developed this trait to a signature feature in her
> compositions and improvisations. The sounds she plays on violin are
> usually found in a cello.
Everything is one note.
Everything.
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| Re: off-topic: Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon - controlled subharmonic t [message #293269 ] |
Fr, 30 Juni 2006 04:00 |
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reminds me of one of the piano people who liked strings a whole lot
globual
"Michael Gula" <mikegula [at] erols.com> wrote in message
news:2oGdnbYTQNos_znZnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d [at] rcn.net...
> Shrike! wrote:
>> Research aims at understanding mysterious music phenomenon
>>
>> Physics : June 28, 2006
>> http://www.physorg.com/news70722951.html
>>
>> http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/1-MariKimura.jpg
>
>>
>> Mari Kimura is a New York based solo violinist that usually lectures at
>> the acknowledged Juilliard School of Music. She is one of the extremely
>> few people who can produce controlled subharmonic tones on violin. Kimura
>> has developed this trait to a signature feature in her compositions and
>> improvisations. The sounds she plays on violin are usually found in a
>> cello.
>
> Everything is one note.
>
> Everything.
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