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Mondo Acustica 2024
Welcome
Welcome
The Organising Committee looks forward to welcoming you to the Mondo Acustica 2024 Conference to be held Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th September 2024 at the Amorim workshop located steps from the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy.
The conference aims to bring makers and scientists to not only share their experience, but purposely think about the future of these two crafts: instrument making and its scientific research. For too long have instrument makers worked based in pure intuition – for too long have scientists thrown empty concepts at makers. A real talk between the two fields hasn't been possible for each field remained in its own comfortable boundaries. We want to transform this by transforming the way in which we perform research and education in the field of musical acoustics. And hence our motto for this year: "Creating the future of instrument making research"
We look forward to welcoming you to Mondo Acustica 2024 in Cremona, Italy.
Speakers
Speakers
Charampolos Saitis, Queen Mary University of London
Tom Nania, D'Addario R&D
Martino Quintavalla, Lutaio & Researcher
Luca Jost, Technische Universität Dresden
Raffael Malvermi, Politecnico di Milano
Pier Flavetta, Luthier & varnish maker
Robert Brewer Young, J&A Beares & Oxford University
Sebastian Gonzalez, Politecnico di Milano
Location
Location
Cave at Amorim Fine Violins Cremona
Piazza Marconi, 7b,
Cremona/CR, 26100, Italy
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Organisers
Organisers
Gaian Amorim
Gaian Amorim
Grew up in a violin making atelier, spending much of his childhood playing with wood and small tools and very early on developing aptitude, skill and passion for this field. At age of five, he began his studies of flute and at eight violin studies, also participating in the Suzuki Orchestra of Curitiba. He built his first violin at age 15 and since then, along with his father and master, Luiz Amorim, continues to evolve and improve his making. In addition to his academic studies in Foreign Trade at Positivo University, he did courses in drawing and painting, studied violin making at the Academia Cremonensis, worked alongside Filippo Fasser and has been strengthening his work through participation in competitions, workshops and exhibitions around the world.
Sebastian Gonzalez
Sebastian Gonzalez
A physicist by training, earned his PhD in the Netherlands before a chance encounter with a 13th-generation family of violin makers from Germany stirred his fascination for the craft. This new interest, coupled with his experience running a guitar shop in Valparaiso, Chile, led him to Cremona, Italy in 2019. There, he delved into the acoustics of musical instruments at the Politecnico di Milano. Now, Sebastian combines his technical expertise with his love for music, utilising computer simulations, artificial intelligence, and hands-on experiments to unravel the mechanics behind the unique sound of the violin.
Program
Program
Day 1 - 25/09
Introduction: Gaian Amorim & Sebastian Gonzalez
9:30 Sebastian Gonzalez: “A review of recent advances in musical acoustics research and their implications for makers.”
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Pier Flavetta: "Madder Lake: A Deep Dive into its Colorful History and Application in Violin Making"
11:30 Luca Jost: “Correlations of acoustic characterisation, structural parameters and listener evaluation for the case of the violin”
12:00 Round table: the future of instrument making education: towards scientific instrument making? Moderated by Robert Brewer Young
Day 2 - 26/09
9:30 Invited talk by Charalampos Saitis “Metaphors we craft with: a timbre semantics tutorial review for luthiers”
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Martino Quintavalla: “Plate tuning: evaluating different approaches from a scientific and makers perspective”
11:30 Raffael Malvermi: Vibroacoustic characterisation of a set of culturally relevant violins
12:00 Tom Nania: String theory and practice
Workshops
Workshops
Parallel workshops in the afternoons 25/26:
3D scanning and analysis of instruments: where? Laboratorio Polimi Bell’Aspa 3 16:00 -17:00 thursday. Bring your plate/violin if you want to have a scan of it.
Radiation/admittance Measurements: Amorim Fine violins, 15:00 -16:00 both days. Bring your instrument if you want it measured.
Timbre semantic workshop: Amorim Fine Violins, Wednesday 14:30 - 16:00
String testing workshop: Amorim Fine Violins, Thursday 14:30 - 16:00
Internal radiation measurements: Laboratorio Polimi Bell’Aspa 3 15:00 -16:00 Wednesday and Thursday. Bring your laptop with ObiApp installed if you want to follow along.
Book of abstracts
Book of abstracts
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