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Background: The perceptual relations of musical timbres are difficult to assess. The so called timbre spaces (TS) are a concept to depict timbre dissimilarities as spatial distances in a euclidean space. Since the 1970s, the TS concept, as intuitively accessible as it is, gained popularity within the scientific community and has been generally accepted. A recent comparison of several TS revealed a lack of consistency among TS studies (Siddiq et al. 2014). It's most likely caused by the from study to study vastly different stimuli-sets. Thus far, instruments were reduced to a single tone, compared at the same pitch, and only (re-)synthesized sounds were used. Research question: These findings raise the question whether an empirical meta TS would rather comply with the results of the original TS or confirm the inconsistency. Methods: Based on the original stimuli used by Grey (1975), Krumhansl (1989), McAdams et al. (1995), and additional natural instrument sounds out of the Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL), a hearing experiment was performed. The obtained dissimilarity matrix was, by means of a multidimensional scaling (MDS), graphed into a 3D scatter plot and eventually structured through a hierarchical clustering. Results: The inconsistency is pretty much confirmed. Instead of an anticipated instrument clustering (e.g. all trumpets roughly located in the same region), the meta TS yields a clear clustering of stimuli-sets. Apparently, there is a greater timbral resemblance among the different instrument sounds from the same stimuli-set than among the sounds of the same instrument across the different stimuli-sets. Hence, these timbral differences between the stimuli-sets seem to prevail as primary features of timbre discrimination which in turn significantly impairs the comparability and thus the generality of TS studies.
Titel in Übersetzung | Über die Vergleichbarkeit und Allgemeingültigkeit von Timbre Space Studien |
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Originalsprache | Englisch |
Titel | Proceedings of the Third Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics |
Untertitel | Bridging the Gaps |
Redakteure*innen | Alexander Mayer, Vasileios Chatziioannou, Werner Goebl |
Erscheinungsort | Wien |
Seiten | 237-240 |
Seitenumfang | 4 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2015 |
ÖFOS 2012
- 604024 Musikwissenschaft
- 103002 Akustik
- 501026 Wahrnehmungspsychologie
Schlagwörter
- Systematische Musikwissenschaft
- Psychoakustik
- Klangfarbe
- Klangfarbenwahrnehmung
- Klangfarbendiskrimination
- Timbre Space
- Hörversuch
- Empirische Studie
- Musikinstrumente
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Vergleichende Untersuchungen zu Timbre Space Studien
Saleh Siddiq (Vortragende*r), Christoph Reuter (Vortragende*r), Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg (Vortragende*r) & Denis Knauf (Vortragende*r)
7 März 2017Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
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Timbre Space reloaded: Tonhöhe und Dynamik als Teil der Klangfarbenempfindung
Siddiq, S., Reuter, C., Czedik-Eysenberg, I. & Knauf, D., 2017, Fortschritte der Akustik – DAGA 2017: 43. Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA). S. 194-197 4 S.Veröffentlichungen: Beitrag in Buch › Beitrag in Konferenzband › Peer Reviewed