{"id":247,"date":"2020-11-26T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrunderwood.co.uk\/dev\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-11-26T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:56:26","slug":"soft-resonators-vocalisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/soft-resonators-vocalisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft resonators \/ vocalisations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent fascination has been exploring how soft resonators and inspiration drawn from human (and other animal) vocalisations could be put to use in musical instrument design. Here are a few  examples of this, from very recent vocalisation robots to a machine Kempelen designed in the 1700s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qobhDJ_vEOc\" target=\"_blank\">Motormouth Robot KTR-2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5fWYCTkWRoE\" target=\"_blank\">Kempelen&#8217;s speaking machine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking Piano<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus far, this has resulted in a series of prototype instruments, mainly using latex membranes. These are pretty embryonic at present but show significant potential in my view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Soft clarinet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not quite sure where this is heading but I\u2019ve become rather fascinated by soft-resonators lately. This one is 3D printed and I\u2019m now wondering what a combination of tone holes and softness might do. Hmmm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n5KOHJ1YDS\">pic.twitter.com\/n5KOHJ1YDS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sam Underwood (@misterunderwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/misterunderwood\/status\/1326185693660540928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thread<\/strong> (below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vocal cord production line. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iUko43L2Mw\">pic.twitter.com\/iUko43L2Mw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sam Underwood (@misterunderwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/misterunderwood\/status\/1328343260616667137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Latex reed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me: \u201cGood morning Goose Organ\u201d<br><br>Goose Organ: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/67xh7GZc4d\">pic.twitter.com\/67xh7GZc4d<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sam Underwood (@misterunderwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/misterunderwood\/status\/1330804837261463553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent fascination has been exploring how soft resonators and inspiration drawn from human (and other animal) vocalisations could be put to use in musical instrument design. Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}