Selected Paper Presentation

• Select a paper from the list below (additional paper suggestions are welcome, but should be approved by the instructor);
• Prepare a 10-minute paper presentation for the class;
• Sign up (on Canvas) by the end of the second week.
• A precise date will be assigned after the second week, however an approximate date can be found in the Schedule.

Hearing in Time and Space

Moore, F. R. (1983). “A General Model for Spatial Processing of Sounds.” Computer Music Journal (Autumn), 6-15. (available electronically from UCSD library).

Rasch, R. A. (1979). “Synchronization in Performed Ensemble Music.” Acustica, 43, 121-131. (harder)

Resnick, S. B., and Feth, L. L. (1975). “Discriminability of Time-Reversed Pairs of Clicks.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 57, 1493–1499.

Ronkin, D. A. (1970). “Monaural Detection of Phase Difference Between Clicks.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 47, 1091-1099. (harder)

Schroeder, M. R., D. Gottlob, and K. F. Siebrasse (1974). “Comparative Study of European Concert Halls, Correlation of Subjective Preference with Geometric and Acoustic Parameters.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 56, 1195-1201.

Algazi, V. R., R.O.Duda, and D.M.Thompson (2001). “The CIPIC HRTF Database.” IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics 2001, New Paltz, NY. PDF

T.M.Leung et al. (2017). “The effects of neighborhood views containing multiple environmental features on road traffic noise perception at dwellings”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 2399-2407, http://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.4979336 (student suggestion)

Timbre/Signal Discrimination

Grey, J. M. (1976). “Multidimensional Perceptual Scaling of Musical Timbres.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 61(5): 1270-1277.

Wessel, D. L. (1979). “Timbre Space as a Musical Control Structure.” Computer Music Journal, 3(2): 45-52.

Patterson, J. H., and D. M. Green. (1970). “Discrimination of Transient Signals Having Identical Energy Spectra.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 48, 121–131.

Gregory, R. L. and A. E. Drysdale (1976). “Squeezing speech into the deaf ear.” Nature, 264, 748 - 751.

Warren, R. M., and R. P. Warren (1970). “Auditory Illusions and Confusions.” Scientific American, 233, 30-36.

McGurk, H., and J. MacDonald (1976). “Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices.” Nature, 264, 746 - 748.

Pitch (Perception)

Pierce, J. R. (1991). “Periodicity and Pitch Perception.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1889-1893.

Shepard, R. N. (1964). “Circularity in Judgments of Relative Pitch.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 35, 2346-2353.

Deutsch, D. (1972). “Octave Generalization and Tune Recognition.” Perception and Psychophysics, 11, 411-412.

Deutsch, D., North T., and R Lee (1990). “The Tritone Paradox: Correlate with the Listener's Vocal Range for Speech”. Music Perception, 1990, (7), 371-384.

Pitch (Consonance)

Mathews, M. V., and J. R. Pierce. (1980). “Harmony and Nonharmonic Partials.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 68, 1252-1257.

Nordmark, J., and Fahlen, L. (1988). “Beat Theories of Musical Consonance.” In Speech Transmission Laboratory, Quarterly Progress and Status Report. Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Plomp, R., and Levelt, W. J. M. (1965). “Tonal Consonance and Critical Bandwidth”. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 38, 548-560.

Pierce, J. R. (1966). “Attaining Consonance in Arbitrary Scales.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 40, 249.

Pitch (Scales)

Huron, D. (1994). “Interval-Class Content in Equally Tempered Pitch-Class Sets: Common Scales Exhibit Optimum Tonal Consonance.” Music Perception 11(3), 289-305.

Sethares, W. A. (1993). “Local Consonance and the Relationship Between Timbre and Scale.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 94, 1218-1228.

Mathews, M. V., J. R. Pierce, A. Reeves, and L. A. Roberts. (1988). “Theoretical and Experimental Exploration of the Bohlen–Pierce Scale.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84, 1214-1222.

Robert HP Platz (translated by Frances Wharton) (1993). “More than Just Notes: Psychoacoustics and Composition”, Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 5, 1995, pp. 23-28. (student suggestion)

Cook N. D. (2017). “Calculation of the acoustical properties of triadic harmonies.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142 (6), 3748-3755. (student suggestion)

Bioacoustics (Animal Hearing/Perception)

Hannah M. Moir, Joseph C. Jackson and James F. C. Windmill. “Extremely high frequency sensitivity in a 'simple' ear” (hearing in moths), available here

Rickye S. Heffner and Henry E. Heffner. “Hearing in the Elephant: Absolute Sensitivity, Frequency Discrimination, and Sound Localization”, available here

Mirjam Knörnschild et all. “Bat echolocation calls facilitate social communication”, available here.

Ted W. Cranford and Petr Krysl (2015). “Fin Whale Sound Reception Mechanisms: Skull Vibration Enables Low-Frequency Hearing”, available here (student suggestion)