Institute for Viennese Sound Style

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Institute for Viennese Sound Style (Musical Acoustics)
founding 1971
Sponsorship state
place Vienna
country Austria
Head of Institute Wilfried Kausel
Employee about 10
including professors 2
Website iwk.mdw.ac.at

The Institute for Viennese Sound Style (Musical Acoustics) is a university training facility and part of the Vienna State University for Music and Performing Arts in Austria . In addition to basic research, the research institute is primarily dedicated to music-specific issues and, in the field of applied research, the acoustics of musical instruments and their effects on playing technique.

history

The term Viennese sound style can be found for the first time in 1966 in a letter from the then President of the Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna , Hans Sittner, to the Federal Ministry, in which he applied for the establishment of six scientific institutes for the academic year 1966/67. Including this Institute for Viennese Sound Style . The institute existed only on paper until 1980 under the institute director Hans Hadamovsky and showed no activities. In 1971 the director of the institute defined the purpose of the institute for the first time in a letter to the rectorate: the creation of the material basis of the “Viennese sound style”. In 1973, Hadamovsky published a three-volume, handwritten work, Der Wiener Bläserstil , in which, for the first time, the peculiarities of the Viennese music tradition were laid down and defined in writing from a largely subjective point of view.

In 1980 the institute was brought to life when an assistant position was assigned. This was followed by studies on a scientific basis on the structural, acoustic and technical characteristics of the Viennese oboe, the Viennese horn and the Viennese timpani.

Since the university was reorganized into 24 institutes in 2002, it has been renamed "Institute for Viennese Sound Style (Musical Acoustics)" as Institute 22, which expresses the expanded range of tasks. Research areas are: musical acoustics , psychoacoustics , physiology of hearing and instrumental playing, instrument science , signal processing , modeling and measurement technology .

Research methods

The acoustical laboratory of the Institute for Viennese Sound Style (musical acoustics) offers a variety of analysis options, such as:

  • Sound analysis
  • Measurements of the radiation characteristics
  • Acoustic input impedance and admittance measurements
  • Modal analysis and acceleration measurements
  • Interferometry, measurements for vibration analysis using 'Electronic Speckel Pattern Interferometry'
  • High speed recording

Since 1989, the institute has developed the tools 'BIAS' and 'VIAS' for computer diagnosis and therapy systems for musical instruments for instrument making schools, museums and universities, which are used worldwide. Marketing in the spin-off company ARTIM has been continued since 2008.

literature

Series of publications by the Institute for Viennese Sound Style (Musical Acoustics) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

  • Volume 1: Gregor Widholm (Ed.): The instrumental play. Contributions to the acoustics of musical instruments, medical and psychological aspects of making music. Verlag Doblinger, 1989, ISBN 3-900695-11-3 .
  • Volume 2: Paul W. Fürst (Ed.): On the situation of musicians in Austria. Lectures at the music symposia in the castle courtyard (1989–1993). 1994, ISBN 3-900914-00-1 .
  • Volume 3: Eduard Melkus (Ed.): 15 years Institute for Viennese Sound Style (1980–1995). History and development of the institute. Activity report and scientific articles on various topics. 1996, ISBN 3-900914-01-X .
  • Volume 5: Matthias Bertsch : Viennese Sound Style - Myth or Reality? Results of the listening study “Do you hear Viennese?” On the recognition of the Viennese sound style in musical examples. 2003, ISBN 3-900914-03-6 .
  • Volume 6: Matthias Bertsch: Collected Papers in Musical Acoustics. 2003, ISBN 3-900914-04-4 .
  • Volume 7: Wilfried Kausel: A Musical Acoustician's Guide to Computational Physics. Concepts, Algorithms & Applications. 2003, ISBN 3-900914-05-2 .
  • Volume 8: Helmuth Kühnelt, Gregor Widholm (eds.): Proceedings of the EAA Workshop "ViennaTalk 2005 - On the Future of Wind Instruments". 2005, ISBN 3-900914-06-0 .
  • Volume 9: Proceedings of the Second Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics. 2010, ISBN 978-3-900914-07-3 .
  • Volume 10: Gregor Widholm (Ed.): Antonio Stradivaris Ex Benvenuti. Hans Hammerschmied, 2011, ISBN 978-3-900914-08-0 .

Web links

Commons : University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Widholm: The Viennese oboe as part of a specific orchestral sound concept . In: Paul W. Fürst (Ed.): On the situation of musicians in Austria. Lectures at the music symposia in the castle courtyard 1989-1993 . Institute for Viennese Sound Style, 1994, ISBN 3-900914-00-1 , p. 169-176 .
  2. ^ Gregor Widholm: G. Widholm, horns - V. Acoustics of horn instruments . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): Music in past and present (MGG) . Bärenreiter / Metzler, 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1105-5 , p. 395-416 .
  3. ↑ Widholm, Gregor: Das Wiener Horn. Its sound - its playing technique . In: Paul W. Fürst (Ed.): On the situation of musicians in Austria. Lectures at the music symposia in the castle courtyard 1989-1993 . Institute for Viennese Sound Style, 1994, ISBN 3-900914-00-1 , p. 99-112 .
  4. ^ Matthias Bertsch: Vibration patterns and sound analysis of the Viennese Timpani . In: Proceedings of ISMA '2001, Stanzial, Domenico . Musical and Architectural Acoustics Lab. FSSG-CNR Venezia, 2001, ISBN 88-900646-0-9 , pp. 281-284 .

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