FRED SKIFF & KENNETH TSE / Una breve discursión sobre la aplicacion de la acustica del saxofón aplicandolo a un programa informático para para el anñalisis de la calidad del sonido
Fred Skiff & Kenneth Tse
Fred Skiff is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. In addition to teaching standard physics courses at all levels, he has been teaching courses on physical acoustics for the past 15 years. His major research area is experimental plasma physics and laser spectroscopy with a particular interest in acoustical and wave phenomena in ionized gasses. Before moving to the University of Iowa, Professor Skiff was a professor at the University of Maryland College Park and a research scientist at the Swiss Federal Technical School in Lausanne. His training in physics began at Cornell University in the Department of Engineering and Applied Physics and he earned a Masters and Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. As an amateur musician he has always had an interest in physical acoustics having been introduced to the subject by his grandfather, John C Schelleng who, in his retirement, performed research on the physics of stringed instruments. His current work on quantifying tone quality came out of a joint research grant with Dr Kenneth Tse, professor in the School of Music at the University of Iowa. Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading classical saxophonists, Kenneth Tse is certainly one of the instrument’s outstanding proponents on any saxophone aficionado’s short list. He burst on the scene in 1996 as the winner of the prestigious New York Artists International Award, which resulted in an acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall, after which he was hailed as “a young virtuoso” by the New York Times. The Alex Award from the National Alliance for Excellence led to another Carnegie Hall performance. These are but two of the multitude of awards that Tse has garnered in less than a decade and a half. Since then he has been a frequent soloist on five continents, including solo appearances with the Des Moines Symphony, United States Navy Band, Slovenia Army Band, La Armónica Band of Bunol, Spain, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta among others. He is frequent featured artist at events such as the triennial World Saxophone Congress and North American Saxophone Alliance conferences. He has also been a guest clinician at conferences hosted by the California Band Directors’ Association, Iowa Bandmaster’s Association, and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics. Prestigious universities and conservatories worldwide, such as Moscow Conservatory and Paris Conservatory have invited him to give master classes. |
A brief discussion of saxophone acoustics with application to a computer program for the analysis of tone quality.The aesthetic of musical sound is often thought of being a subject of abstraction. Students learn the concept of good tone quality mostly from imitation. It is the primary objective of this lecture to delineate the acoustical properties of the saxophone and to present a newly-written computer program for real-time visual spectragram to aid a student's realisation and production of, what visually and aurally perceived is, a good sound. This approach has a potential of changing the way how instrumental teachers teach and how students learn through this interactive method and tool. |
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