Tamara Smyth

Professor
Department of Music
UC San Diego

UCSD Department of Music
Conrad Prebys Music Center
9500 Gilman Dr. MC 0099
T (858) 534-3230
F (858) 534-8502
trsmyth@ucsd.edu

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Research Interests

• Computer Music
• Digital audio signal processing, sound analysis/synthesis
• Control and simulation of virtual musical instruments
• Physical modeling of musical instruments
• Alternative representation/implementation and analysis of 2-D wave propagation
• Simulation of reed-based musical instruments and vocal systems
• Inverse modelling and parameter estimation
• Measurement techniques
• Abstract synthesis representations

Courses (links are to most recent offering)

Fall 2023

• Music 171: Computer Music I
• Music 270a: Digital Audio Processing

Winter 2024

• Music 267/206: Computational Acoustic Modeling for Sound Synthesis

Spring 2024

• Music 175: Psychoacoustics
• Music 270d: Advanced Projects in Computer Music

Past

• Music 170: Musical Acoustics

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