Edgar Berdahl's Music Technology Page

Edgar Berdahl's Music Technology Page

Expertise

Sound synthesis using physical
modeling for haptic devices

Audio DSP

Custom design of interactive systems

Use case testing with the EMDM Ensemble

Circuit design

Fabrication of embedded acoustic instruments

Spatial audio and binaural synthesis

Feedback control

Higher dimensional haptics

Calibration from real measurements

Quantitative and qualitative evaluations

Physical modeling of electrical,
mechanical, and acoustic systems

Also embedded Linux

Journal Papers/Book Chapters/Commentaries

E. Berdahl, A. Pfalz, M. Blandino, and S.D. Beck. Force-Feedback Instruments for the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana. In Musical Haptics, S. Papetti and C. Saitis (eds.), Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems, Springer, Cham, 2018, pp. 171-191.

E. Berdahl and Wendy Ju. 2011: Satellite CCRMA: A Musical Interaction and Sound Synthesis Platform. In A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Springer: New York, NY, 2017, pp. 337-348.

E. Berdahl and W. Ju. (Brief) Author Commentary: Satellite CCRMA for Embedded Musical Instruments and Embedded Sound Art. In A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Springer: New York, NY, 2017, pp. 349-350.

E. Berdahl. (Brief) Expert Commentary: Haptics for Sonic Interaction Design using Recycled Motors. In A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Springer: New York, NY, 2017, pp. 61-63.

E. Berdahl and A. Kontogeorgakopoulos. The FireFader: Simple, Open-Source, and Reconfigurable Haptic Force Feedback for Musicians. Computer Music Journal, 37:1, pp. 23-34, Spring 2013. ISSN 0148-9267.

E. Berdahl, J. Smith III, S. Weinzierl, and G. Niemeyer. Force-Sensitive Detents Improve User Performance for Linear Selection Task, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 6(2), pp. 206-216, April-June 2013, ISSN 1939-1412.

E. Berdahl, J. Smith III, and G. Niemeyer. Feedback Control of Acoustic Musical Instruments: Collocated Control Using Physical Analogs, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(1), pp. 963-973, January, 2012.

E. Berdahl, C. Cadoz, and N. Castagne. Force-feedback interaction with a neural oscillator model: For shared human-robot control of a virtual percussion instrument, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2012:9, 2012.

D. Overholt, E. Berdahl, and R. Hamilton. Advancements In Actuated Musical Instruments, Journal of Organised Sound, 16:154-165, June, 2011.

Theses and Other Long Documents

Online Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, ed. by Edgar Berdahl and Jesse Allison, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, 2015, ISSN 2220-4814.

E. Berdahl. Applications of Feedback Control to Musical Instrument Design, PhD thesis,
337 pgs, Stanford University (CCRMA), Stanford, CA, December 2009.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

E. Berdahl, A. Franklin, and E. Sheffield. A Spatially Distributed Vibrotactile Actuator Array for the Fingertips. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2019.

A. Marasco, E. Berdahl, and J. Allison. Bendit_I/O: A System for Networked Performance of Circuit-Bent Devices. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2019.

E. Berdahl, C. Mitchusson, and W. Montgomery. An Initiative in Embedded Sound Art with Found Objects: "What's Old Is New". Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, New York, NY, June 2019.

E. Berdahl, A. Marasco. Proposing "Computer Bending" and "Circuit Vacuuming" as Techniques in Experimental Music. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, New York, NY, June 2019.

E. Sheffield, W. Thompson, E. Berdahl. Two Different Paradigms for Network Audio Performance with a Laptop Ensemble. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, New York, NY, June 2019.

M. Blandino, E. Berdahl, and R. Soukoreff. An Estimation and Comparison of Human Abilities to Communicate Information through Pursuit Tracking vs. Pointing on a Single Axis. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Washington D.C., July 24-28, 2019.

E. Berdahl, E. Sheffield, A. Pfalz, and A. Marasco. Widening the Razor-Thin Edge of Chaos Into a Musical Highway: Connecting Chaotic Maps to Digital Waveguides. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, VA, June 2018, pp. 390–393.

A. Pfalz, E. Berdahl, and J. Allison. Using Recurrent Neural Networks to Dream Sequences of Audio, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Daegu, South Korea.

E. Berdahl. Dipole Instruments for Sketching in Hardware with Embedded Acoustics, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Daegu, South Korea, August 2018.

A. Pfalz and E. Berdahl. Toward Inverse Control of Physics-Based Sound Synthesis, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Deep Learning and Music, Anchorage, AK, May, 2017, pp. 56-61.

E. Berdahl, M. Blessing, M. Williams, P. Tan, B. Ullmer, and J. Allison, Spatial audio approaches for embedded sound art installations with loudspeaker line arrays, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017, pp. 426-430.

M. Blessing and E. Berdahl, The JoyStyx: A quartet of embedded acoustic instruments, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017, pp. 271-274.

E. Berdahl, P. Vasil, and A. Pfalz. Automatic Visualization and Graphical Editing of Virtual Modeling Networks for the Open-Source Synth-A-Modeler Compiler, F. Bello, H. Kajimoto, & Y. Visell (Eds.), Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications: 10th International Conference, Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2016, Part II, London, UK, July 4-7, 2016, pp. 490–500.

E. Berdahl, M. Blandino, D. Baker, and D. Shanahan. An Approach for Using Information Theory to Investigate Continuous Control of Analog Sensors by Humans. In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference, Norrkoping, Sweden, 2016, pages 85–90.

E. Berdahl, M. Blessing, S. Beck, and M. Blandino. More Masses For The Masses. In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference, Norrkoping, Sweden, 2016, pages 105–110.

E. Berdahl, A. Pfalz, and M. Blandino. Hybrid Virtual Modeling for Multisensory Interaction Design. In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference, Norrkoping, Sweden, 2016, pages 215-221.

M. Blessing and E. Berdahl. Textural Crossfader, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 30 - July 3, 2015.

E. Berdahl and D. Huber. The Haptic Hand, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 30 - June 3, 2015.

E. Berdahl. How to Make Embedded Acoustic Instruments, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, London, United Kingdom, June 30 - July 3, 2014.

E. Berdahl. Audio-Rate Modulation of Physical Model Parameters, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece, Sept. 15-19, 2014.

E. Berdahl, S. Salazar, and M. Borins. Embedded Networking and Hardware-Accelerated Graphics with Satellite CCRMA, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Daejeon, Korea, May, 2013, pp. 325-330.

E. Berdahl and Q. Llimona. Tangible embedded Linux, Proceedings of the ACM 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2013), Barcelona, Spain, February 10-13, 2013, pp. 407-410, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1898-3.

E. Berdahl and A. Kontogeorgakopoulos. Engraving-Hammering-Casting: Exploring the Sonic-Ergotic Medium for Live Musical Performance, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Sept. 9-14, 2012, pp. 387-390.

E. Berdahl and A. Kontogeorgakopoulos. The FireFader Design: Simple, Open-Source, and Reconfigurable Haptics for Musicians, Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 11-14, 2012, pp. 90-98. BEST PAPER AWARD.

E. Berdahl and J. Smith III. An Introduction to the Synth-A-Modeler Compiler: Modular and Open-Source Sound Synthesis using Physical Models, Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference, Stanford, CA, USA, April 2012, ISBN: 9781105625466.

E. Berdahl and C. Chafe. Autonomous New Media Artefacts (AutoNMA), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Oslo, Norway, May 30-June 1, 2011, pp. 322-323.

E. Berdahl, W. Ju. Satellite CCRMA: A Musical Interaction and Sound Synthesis Platform, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Oslo, Norway, May 30-June 1, 2011, pp. 173-178.

E. Berdahl, J.-L. Florens and C. Cadoz. Using Physical Models is Necessary to Guarantee Stable Analog Haptic Feedback for Any User and Haptic Device, Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Padua, Italy, July 6-9, 2011.

B. Verplank and E. Berdahl. Assertive Haptics for Music, Proceedings of the Fifth International
Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Funchal, Portugal, Jan. 23-26,
2011, pp. 25-29.

E. Berdahl and D. Harris. Smart Microphone for Howling Prevention: A context-aware audio device,
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), San Francisco Bay Area, CA,
Oct. 6-8, 2010, pp. 472-477.

E. Berdahl and D. Harris. Frequency Shifting For Acoustic Howling Suppression, Proceedings of the
13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Graz, Austria, Sept. 6-10, 2010.

E. Berdahl, J. Smith III, and G. Niemeyer. Mechanical Sound Synthesis: And the New Application of
Force-Feedback Teleoperation of Acoustic Musical Instruments, Proceedings of the 13th International
Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Graz, Austria, Sept. 6-10, 2010.

C. Raffel, N. Kruge, D. Douglas, E. Berdahl, and W. Ju. The Lattice Harp: A New Hybrid
Instrument And Controller, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference,
New York City and Stony Brook, NY, June 1-5, 2010, pp. 127-130.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III.
Using Haptics to Assist Performers in Making Gestures to a Musical Instrument,
Ninth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-6, 2009.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III.
Using Haptic Devices to Interface Directly with Digital Waveguide-Based Musical Instruments,
Ninth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-6, 2009.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III.
HSP: A Simple and Effective Open-Source Platform for Implementing Haptic Musical Instruments,
Ninth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-6, 2009.

E. Berdahl, H.-C. Steiner, and C. Oldham. Practical Hardware and Algorithms for Creating Haptic Musical Instruments,
Eighth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
Genova, Italy, June 5-7, 2008, pp. 61-66.

E. Berdahl, J. O. Smith III. A Tangible Virtual Vibrating String,
Eighth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
Genova, Italy, June 5-7, 2008, pp. 299-302.

E. Berdahl, B. Verplank, J. O. Smith III, and G. Niemeyer.
A Physically Intuitive Haptic Drumstick,
International Computer Music Conference, slides,
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007, pp. 363-6.

E. Berdahl, J. O. Smith III.
Inducing Unusual Dynamics in Acoustic Musical Instruments,
2007 IEEE Conference on Control Applications,
October 1-3, 2007 - Singapore.

E. Berdahl, J. O. Smith III, Adrian Freed.
Active Damping of a Vibrating String,
6th International Symposium on Active Noise and Vibration Control,
September 18-20, 2006 - Adelaide, Australia.

E. Berdahl, J. O. Smith III.
Some Physical Audio Effects,
9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects,
September 18-20, 2006 - Montreal, Canada.

M. Wright, E. Berdahl.
Toward Machine Learning of Expressive Microtiming in Brazilian Drumming,
International Computer Music Conference.
November 6-11, 2006 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

E. Berdahl, S. Backer, J.O. Smith III.
If I Had A Hammer: Design and Theory of an Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano,
International Computer Music Conference.
September 5-9, 2005 - Barcelona, Spain.

H.-G. Kim, E. Berdahl, N. Moreau, T. Sikora.
Speaker Recognition Using MPEG-7 Descriptors,
Eurospeech, September 1-4, 2003 - Geneva, Switzerland.

Other Publications and Presentations

Edgar Berdahl, Austin Franklin, and Eric Sheffield. A Spatially Distributed Vibrotactile Actuator Array (SDVAA) for music-to-vibrotactile sensory augmentation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 1710 (2019).

Edgar Berdahl. Feedback control of acoustic musical instruments when the number of sensors and actuators differ, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 1709 (2019).

Chase Mitchusson and Edgar Berdahl. Duke Skellington Plays the Xylobone: Enhanced Virtual Reality (EVR) for a Live Concert Experience, Game Music, Sound Design and Virtual Reality Audio Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 10, 2018.

Edgar Berdahl, It's Not a Synthesizer — It's Synth-A-Modeler, Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), St. Cloud, MN, April 20-22, 2017.

Edgar Berdahl, Stephen David Beck, and Andrew Pfalz, A physical model of a highly nonlinear string and its use in the music composition "Quartet for Strings". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 2204 (2016).

Edgar Berdahl and Stephen David Beck. Electroacoustics laboratory assignments for computer music students. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 2097 (2016).

Edgar Berdahl and Matthew Blessing. Physical modeling sound synthesis using embedded computers: More masses for the masses. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 2204 (2016).

Edgar Berdahl. Expressively actuated percussion instruments and interfaces. Invited talk. 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2-6. Abstract in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, pp. 4157 (2013).

Edgar Berdahl. The Stingray embedded acoustic instrument. 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2-6. Abtract in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, pp. 4055 (2013), ISSN 0001-4966.

Edgar Berdahl. Haptic interaction design using Synth-A-Modeler. 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2-6. Abstract in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, pp. 4242 (2013), ISSN 0001-4966.

Edgar Berdahl. Accessible Haptic Force Feedback for Virtual Instruments. Abstract in the Program of the AIA-DAGA Conference on Acoustics, Merano, Italy, March 18-21, 2013.

Edgar Berdahl. Feedback Control of Electric Guitar Strings: Collocated Control Using Physical Models. Abstract in the Program of the AIA-DAGA Conference on Acoustics, Merano, Italy, March 18-21, 2013.

D. Harris, E. Berdahl, and J. Abel. An Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) Hilbert Transformer Filter Design Technique for Audio, Proceedings of the 129th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Preprint #8528, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 7-10, 2010.

E. Berdahl, A. Kontogeorgakopoulos, and D. Overholt. HSP v2: Haptic Signal Processing with Extensions for Physical Modeling, Proceedings of the Haptic Audio Interaction Design Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 16-17, 2010, pp. 61-62.

E. Berdahl. FireFader: A single degree-of-freedom force-feedback device for multimodal interaction with physical models,
Proceedings of the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Oct. 31-Nov. 4,
2011, San Diego, CA.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III.
A physically motivated room reverberation enhancement system that is
stable in any (dissipative) room: An application of sound portholes,
Joint 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and Noise-Con 2010,
April 19-23, 2010 - Baltimore, Maryland.

E. Berdahl, D. Harris, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III.
An electroacoustic sound transmission system that is stable in any
(dissipative) acoustic environment: An application of sound portholes,
Joint 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and Noise-Con 2010,
April 19-23, 2010 - Baltimore, Maryland.

E. Berdahl, W. Ju, J. O. Smith III. Invited Talk.
Homemade Digital Musical Instruments,
Joint 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and Noise-Con 2010,
April 19-23, 2010 - Baltimore, Maryland.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III.
Haptic interaction for music with unrestricted freedom of the musician's motion:
promoting augmented interaction with physical tools,
Joint 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and Noise-Con 2010,
April 19-23, 2010 - Baltimore, Maryland.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III. Invited Talk.
Applications of Passivity Theory to the Active Control of Acoustic Musical Instruments,
Second joint conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
and the European Acoustics Association (EAA), also known as Acoustics '08, #1561,
June 29-July 4, 2008 - Paris, France. STUDENT BEST PAPER AWARD.

E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III. Active Control of a Vibrating String,
Second joint conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
and the European Acoustics Association (EAA), also known as Acoustics '08, #3120,
June 29-July 4, 2008 - Paris, France.

N. Lee, E. Berdahl, G. Niemeyer, J. O. Smith III
Practical Implementation of Low-Latency DSP for Feedback Control of Sound in Research Contexts,
Second joint conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
and the European Acoustics Association (EAA), also known as Acoustics '08, #1842,
June 29-July 4, 2008 - Paris, France.

E. Berdahl, N. Lee, R. Cassidy, and J. O. Smith III.
REALSIMPLE: Combining physical REALity with SIMulations in Pedagogical Laboratory Experiments,
153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
June 4-7, 2007 - Salt Lake City, Utah.

E. Berdahl, J. O. Smith III.
PID Control of a Vibrating String,
153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
June 4-7, 2007 - Salt Lake City, Utah.

E. Berdahl, J. O. Smith III.
Estimating the State of a One-Dimensional Waveguide,
153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
June 4-7, 2007 - Salt Lake City, Utah.

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