Publications (with links)

    2025

  1. Grace Talaski and Tamara Smyth, The effect of overblowing clarinet impedance peaks on sound production, playability and intonation, in Sixth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Ameria and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2025, presentation by invitation, published abstract.
  2. Grace Talaski and Tamara Smyth, A clarinetists's exploration of clarinet tone through advanced technique, instrument configuration and acoustic impedance, in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA-D-25-00147), Intermational Symposium on Music and Room Acoustics, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2025. PDF
  3. Jeremy Hyrkas and Tamara Smyth, Vibrato Suppression by Time-Varying Delay and Spectral Magnitude Demodulation, in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA-D-25-00147), Intermational Symposium on Music and Room Acoustics, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2025. PDF

    4. 2024

  4. Jeremy Hyrkas and Tamara Smyth, On Vibrato and Frequency (De)Modulation in Musical Sounds, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24), Guildford, United Kingdom, September 2024. PDF
  5. Tamara Smyth, A theoretical framework for estimating wind instrument bell reflection and transmission functions, in 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustics Week in Canada, Ottawa, Canada, May 2024, presentation by invitation, published abstract. Abstract

    6. 2021

  6. Tamara Smyth, Abstract synthesis representation of nonlinear behaviour in coupled resonators, in Proceedings of the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington, December 2021, vol. 150, presentation by invitation, published abstract. Abstract
  7. Tamara Smyth and Devansh Zurale, On the role of lip reflection/transmission in the relationship between lpc and waveguide vocal tract models, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA-2021), New Paltz, NY, October 2021. PDF
  8. Tamara Smyth and Devansh Zurale, On the transfer function of the piecewise cylindrical vocal tract model, in Proceedings of the 18th Sound and Music Computing Conference, online, June 2021, virtual conference. PDF

    9. 2019

  9. Tamara Smyth, On the Simlarity between Feedback/Loopback Amplitude and Frequency Modulation, in Audio Engineering Society Convention 147, New York, New York, October 2019. AES
  10. Tamara Smyth and Jennifer S. Hsu, On Phase and Pitch in Loopback Frequency Modulation with a Time-Varying Feedback Coefficient, in Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Montreal, Canada, July 2019, 8 pages. PDF
  11. Jennifer S. Hsu and Tamara Smyth, Percussion Synthesis using Loopback Frequency Modulation Oscillators in SMC 2019 Proceedings, Málaga, Spain, June 2019, 8 pages. PDF
  12. Tamara Smyth and Jennifer S. Hsu, Representations of Self-Coupled Modal Oscillators with Time-Varying Frequency in SMC 2019 Proceedings, Málaga, Spain, June 2019, 8 pages. PDF

    13. 2018

  13. Tamara Smyth and Jennifer S. Hsu, Power-Preserving Nonlinear Modal Coupling, Feedback Frequency/Phase Modulation, and the Stretched Allpass Filter, in Proceedings of the 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, Canada, November 2018. PDF

    14. 2017

  14. Tamara Smyth, Jennifer Hsu, and Ryan Done, Toward a real-time waveguide mesh implementation, in Proceedings of the 2017 International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA), Montreal, Canada, June 2017. PDF

    15. 2016

  15. Tamara Smyth and Jennifer Hsu, Toward a real-time parametric percussion instrument based on a waveguide mesh, in 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2016. PDF
  16. Greg Surges, Tamara Smyth, and Miller Puckette, Generative audio systems using power-preserving all-pass filters, Computer Music Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 54–69, Spring 2016. PDF

    17. 2015

  17. Jennifer Hsu and Tamara Smyth, Specifying sounding frequency of a voice model during live interactive saxophone performance in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Denton, Texas, September/October 2015, 4 pages. PDF
  18. Greg Surges and Tamara Smyth, Generative feedback networks using time-varying allpass filters in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Denton, Texas, September/October 2015, 8 pages. PDF

    19. 2014

  19. Tamara Smyth and Cheng-i Wang, Toward real-time estimation of tonehole configuration in Proceedings of the ICMC/SMC, Athens, Greece, September 2014, 8 pages. PDF
  20. Cheng-i Wang and Tamara Smyth and Zachary C. Lipton, Estimation of saxophone control parameters by convex optimization in Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Berlin, Germany, December 2014, 4 pages. PDF

    21. 2013

  21. Tamara Smyth and Marjan Rouhipour, Saxophone fingering identification, in 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), San Francisco, California, December 2013, vol. 134, p. 4054, presentation by invitation, published abstract. PDF
  22. Brendan Bernhardt Gaffney and Tamara Smyth, Acoustics-like dynamics in signal-based synthesis through parameter mapping, in Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference and the Sound and Music Computing Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, July-August 2013, 5 pages. PDF
  23. Greg Surges and Tamara Smyth, Spectral distortion using second-order allpass filters, in Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference and the Sound and Music Computing Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, July-August 2013, 6 pages. PDF
  24. Tamara Smyth and Marjan Rouhipour, Saxophone modelling and system identification, in Proceedings of the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, Canada, June 2013, 5 pages, presentation by invitation. PDF
  25. Tamara Smyth and Frederick Scott, A trombone model emphasizing acoustic accuracy and playability, in Proceedings of the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, Canada, June 2013, 6 pages, presentation by invitation. PDF

    26. 2012

  26. Tamara Smyth and Srikanth Cherla, Saxophone by Model and Measurement, in Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012, p. 6 pages. PDF
  27. Matthieu Macret, Philippe Pasquier, and Tamara Smyth, Automatic calibration of modified fm synthesis to harmonic sounds using genetic algorithms, in Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012, p. 8 pages. PDF
  28. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Toward an estimation of the clarinet reed pulse from instrument performance, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 131 (6), pp. 4799-4810, June 2012, DOI: 10.1121/1.3699211. ASA's official online abstract. PDF.

    29. 2011

  29. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Estimation of clarinet mouthpiece reflection from measurement and the instrument's produced sound, in 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, October/November 2011, presentation and published abstract.
  30. Tamara Smyth and Frederick S. Scott, Parametric trombone synthesis by coupling dynamic lip valve and instrument models, in Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2011, p. 6 pages. PDF
  31. Tamara Smyth and Frederick S. Scott, Trombone synthesis by model and measurement, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2011, no. Article ID 151436, pp. 13 pages, 2011, doi:10.1155/2011/151436. PDF

    32. 2010

  32. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Estimation of reed flow signal from instrument performance, in 2nd Pan-America/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico, October/November 2010, vol. 128, p. 2344, presentation by invitation, published abstract.
  33. Adam Kestian and Tamara Smyth, Real-time estimation of the vocal tract shape for musical control, in Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference, June 2010, pp. 206--211. PDF

    34. 2009

  34. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Estimating waveguide model elements from acoustic tube measurements, Acta Acustica united with Acustica, vol. 95, no. 6, pp. 1093--1103, 2009. PDF
  35. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Estimating the reed pulse from clarinet recordings, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2009, Montreal, Canada, August 2009, pp. 235--238. PDF
  36. Tamara Smyth and Andrew~R. Elmore, Explorations in convolutional synthesis, in Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Porto, Portugal, July 2009, pp. 283--287. PDF

    37. 2008

  37. Tamara Smyth, Review of Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Vol. 2, by Gareth Loy, Organized Sound, vol. 13, no. 03, pp. 271--273, December 2008. PDF
  38. Tamara Smyth and Alireza Fathi, Voice synthesis using the generalized pressure controlled-valve, in Proceedings of ICMC 2008, Belfast, Ireland, August 2008, pp. 57--60. PDF
  39. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Extracting reed control parameters using acoustic measurements and inverse filtering, in 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Paris, France, June 2008, published abstract.

    40. 2007

  40. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Convolutional synthesis of wind instruments, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA'07), New Paltz, New York, October 2007. PDF
  41. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Modeling and measurement of wind instrument bores, in 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, September 2007. PDF
  42. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Extending the generalized reed model with measured reflection functions, in Proceedings of ICMC 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007, International Computer Music Conference, pp. 252--255. PDF

    43. 2006

  43. Tamara Smyth and Jonathan Abel, Observing the effects of waveguide model elements in acoustic tube measurements, in 152nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2006, vol. 120, p. 3331, presentation by invitation, published abstract. Presentation slides: PDF.
  44. Tamara Smyth, Tom N. Smyth, and Arthur E. Kirkpatrick, Exploring the virtual reed parameter space using haptic feedback, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2006), Victoria BC, Canada, October 2006, pp. 45--49, Invited paper. PDF
  45. Tamara Smyth, A handheld acoustic filter bank for musical control, in Proceedings of NIME 2006, Paris, France, June 2006, Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression, pp. 314--317. PDF

    46. 2005

  46. Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, A generalized parametric reed model for virtual musical instruments, in Proceedings of ICMC 2005, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005, International Computer Music Conference, pp. 347--350. PDF

    47. 2004

  47. Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, Musical effects of the digital pressure-controlled valve, San Diego, California, November 2004, Acoustical Society of America, vol. 116, p. 2563, presentation by invitation, published abstract. Presentation slides: PDF.
  48. Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, The feathered clarinet reed, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx'04), Naples, Italy, October 2004, pp. 95--100. PDF
  49. Gamhewage C. de Silva, Tamara Smyth, and Michael J Lyons, A novel face-tracking mouth controller and its applications to bioacoustic models, in Proceedings of NIME 2004, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2004, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 169--172. PDF
  50. Tamara Smyth, Applications of Bioacoustics to Musical Instrument Technology, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, April 2004. PDF

    51. 2003

  51. Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, A musical controller based on the cicada's efficient buckling mechanism, Journal of New Music Research, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 361--368, December 2003.
  52. Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, Feathered collisions in beating reed simulation, Austin, Texas, November 2003, Acoustical Society of America, vol. 114, p. 2325, presented by invitation. Press paper available at HTML. Presentation slides: PDF
  53. Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, Discrete-time simulation of air-flow cut-off in pressure-controlled valves, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA'03), New Paltz, New York, October 2003, pp. 229--232. PDF
  54. Jonathan Abel, Tamara Smyth, and Julius O. Smith, A simple, accurate wall loss filter for acoustic tubes, in DAFX 2003 Proceedings, London, UK, September 2003, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pp. 53--57. PDF
  55. Tamara Smyth, Jonathan Abel, and Julius O. Smith, The estimation of birdsong control parameters using maximum likelihood and minimum action, in Proceedings of SMAC 03, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2003, Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, pp. 413--416. PDF

    56. 2002

  56. Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, The syrinx: Nature's hybrid wind instrument, in CD-ROM Paper Collection, Cancun, Mexico, September 2002, Pan-America/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Student Paper Award. PDF
  57. Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, The sounds of the avian syrinx---are they really flute-like?, in DAFX 2002 Proceedings, Hamburg, Germany, September 2002, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pp. 199--202. PDF
  58. Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, Creating sustained tones with the cicada's rapid buckling mechanism, in Proceedings of NIME 2002, Dublin, Ireland, May 2002, Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression, pp. 112--115. PDF

    59. 2001

  59. Patricio De la Cuadra, Tamara Smyth, Chris Chafe, and Han Baoqiang, Waveguide simulation of neolithic Chinese flutes, in Proceedings of ISMA 2001, Perugia, Italy, September 2001, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, pp. 181--184. PDF
  60. Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, Applications of bioacoustics in physical modeling and the creation of new musical instruments, in Proceedings of ISMA 2001, Perugia, Italy, September 2001, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, pp. 267--270. PDF
  61. Tamara Smyth and Julius O. Smith, A musical instrument based on a bioacoustic model of a cicada, in Proceedings of ICMC 2001, Havana, Cuba, September 2001, International Computer Music Conference, pp. 174--177. PDF