The influence of synthesized music on the expansion of trombone performance techniques
Thomas J. Plsek · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2004
Much of the development of synthesized music has been involved with the modeling of traditional acoustic sources such as strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion. It has, of course, also been concerned with the creation of new, yet unheard, sounds and the modifications and manipulations of existing sources through signal processing. The author has been involved with these processes for many years as a trombone explorer, and has had to interact and integrate wth them. Much was discovered and learned about how trombone performance can be expanded to acoustically simulate these developments in electronic music. This paper demonstrates some of the techniques such as the real-time control of sound source location and the manipulation of timbre. In many instances the acoustical solution proved to be as, or even more, interesting as the synthetic process.