EURASIP 2011 - Special Issue on Musical Applications of Real-Time Signal Processing

In the recent years, musical signal processing applications
have greatly expanded the palette of artistic expression by
creating a myriad of new possibilities for music and sound
creation and manipulation, as well as music listening. Home
recording studios have greatly benefited, as virtually all of
the tools needed for music production are now available
as inexpensive software. In addition to generating abstract
“electronic” sounds, modern synthesis techniques can convincingly
simulate many wind, string and percussion instruments,
and work on the singing voice is generating promising
results. Artificial reverberation, pitch shifting, equalization,
dynamic range compression, and other audio signal processing
techniques in turn have enabled specializedmanipulation
of recorded and synthetic sounds for artistic as well as fixative
purposes. Sophisticated compression, noise canceling,
equalization, and bass enhancement algorithms can provide
noise-free, high-quality audio for portable music players.
The ongoing pursuit for both creative and realistic sounds
and processing nowadays includes real-time sound synthesis
and control, spatial sound, and realistic emulation of analog
and vintage effects devices and synthesizers, especially with
strongly nonlinear and time-varying behavior. The aim of
this special issue is to present current research advances in
real-time musical signal processing applications. Prospective
papers should be unpublished, and present novel, fundamental
research offering innovative contributions from a
methodological or an application perspective. The expected
scope ofmanuscripts for this special issue includes, but is not
limited to:
? Sound synthesis techniques and synthesis control
? Musical instrument and singing voice synthesis
? Equalization and filtering, dynamic range compression,
delay and distortion algorithms
? Virtual analog and vintage audio effects
? Reverberation synthesis, measurement and perception
? Analysis of musical instrument sounds for real-time
synthesis
? Performance gesture measurement, analysis and synthesis
? Active noise control in portable music players
? Microphone and loudspeaker arrays
? Bandwidth expansion and bass enhancement
? Music loudness estimation
? Synthesis and computer music languages
? Audio coding
? Hardware and software implementations
Before submission authors should carefully read over the
journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines.htm... . Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System
at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following
timetable:
Manuscript Due September 15, 2010
First Round of Reviews December 15, 2010
Publication Date March 15, 2011
Lead Guest Editor
Jyri Pakarinen, Department of Signal Processing and
Acoustics, Aalto University, Finland; jyri.pakarinen-AT-tkk.fi
Guest Editors
Jonathan Abel, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA;
abel-AT-ccrma.stanford.edu
Federico Fontana, Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy;
federico.fontana-AT-dimi.uniud.it
Victor Lazzarini, Sound and Music Technology Research
Group, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland;
victor.lazzarini-AT-nuim.ie
Vesa Välimäki, Department of Signal Processing and
Acoustics, Aalto University, Finland; vesa.valimaki-AT-tkk.fi