"Harmonicity and Inharmonicity in Instruments of the Percussion/Resonance Family in Interaction with Electronics"

• Grant number: 19/04593-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Florivaldo Menezes Filho
• Grantee: Leandro Henrique de Amorim Martins
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/17870-9 - Harmonicity and inharmonicity in instruments of the percussion/resonance family in interaction with electronics, AP.TEM

Abstract

This Thematic Project, congregating two of the most important musical institutions in Brazil,both at the Institute of the Arts at the State University of São Paulo (Unesp) - the StudioPANaroma of Electroacoustic Music and the PIAP ensemble -, aims: the spectral analysis of themost important instruments belonging to the percussion/resonance category under the prism ofharmonicity and inharmonicity and their consequent catalog; the historical rescue of fundamentalmusical pieces of contemporary music for percussion with or without piano and electronics (bothin differed and in real time), which were never performed in Brazil; the realization andactualization of the electroacoustic resources for the further performance of these works; thedevelopment of new computational tools in real time, having as main parameter the pairharmonicity/inharmonicity of spectra and new trends in sound synthesis, in view of theinteractivity between electronics and these instruments of the percussion/resonance family; theconception of new pieces as part of the results of the researches; the publication and divulgationof all the results, including the realization in concert of the historical pieces as well as of the newones.Concerning the spectral analysis of the main instruments of the percussion/resonance familyunder the perspective of harmonicity/inharmonicity, this Thematic Project aims to realizesomething very new and audacious even in international terms, since such a systematic researchwas never made anywhere.