PhD Theses

MA Theses

Journal Papers

  • Scavone, G. (1998) “The Musical Acoustics Research Library.” Journal of the Catgut Acoustical Society, Vol. 3, No. 6 (Series II), pp. 24–26.

Book Chapters

  • Scavone, G., Patil, D. and Prasanna, S.R.M. (2023) “Unique Aspects and Sound Synthesis of Stringed Indian Musical Instruments.” In Indian Art Music: A Computational Perspective, edited by Preeti Rao, Hema A. Murthy, S.R.M. Prasanna, Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration, pp. 263-278, ISBN: 978-93-91408-08-4.
  • Scavone, G. (2018). “Delay Lines and Digital Waveguides.” In Springer Handbook for Systematic Musicology, edited by Rolf Bader, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 978-3-662-55002-1, pp.259-272.
  • Cook, P.R. and Scavone, G. (2004) “The Synthesis ToolKit (STK) in C++.” In Audio Anecdotes: A Cookbook of Audio Algorithms and Techniques, edited by Ken Greenbaum, A.K. Peters, pp. 237-253.

Conference Papers

  • Puranik, N. and Scavone, G. (2023) “Physically Inspired Signal Model for Harmonium Sound Synthesis.” (PDF) Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-7 September 2023, pp. 379-382.
  • Puranik, N. and Scavone, G. (2023) “Clamped Bar Model for Free Reeds.” (PDF) Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023 Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Torino, Italy, 11-15 September 2023.
  • Wang, S., Maestre, E. and Scavone, G. (2023) “Characterization of Single-Reed Instrument Sound Generation Based on Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings Analogy.” In D'Amario S., Ternström S., Friberg A. (Eds.), (PDF) Proceedings of the 2023 Stockholm Musical Acoustics Conference, 14-15 June 2023, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 55-62, DOI: 10.30746/978-91-8040-865-3, ISBN: 978-91-8040-865-3.
  • Acquilino, A., Puranik, N., Fujinaga, I. and Scavone, G. (2023) “Detecting Efficiency in Trumpet Sound Production: Proposed Methodology and Pedagogical Implications.” In D'Amario S., Ternström S., Friberg A. (Eds.), (PDF) Proceedings of the 2023 Stockholm Musical Acoustics Conference, 14-15 June 2023, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 72-79, DOI: 10.30746/978-91-8040-865-3, ISBN: 978-91-8040-865-3.
  • Fu, L., Scavone, G. and Fritz, C. (2019) “Player evaluation of performance and student violins.” Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Montreal, Canada, 7-11 July.
  • Kemp, C. and Scavone, G. (2016) “Material Properties and Microstructure Contributions to Vibrational Damping in Arundo Donax L—Reed Cane for Woodwind Instruments.” Presented at the 2016 Materials Research Society Meeting, Symposium TC3 : Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology, Boston, MA, 27 November - 2 December, TC3.4.01.
  • Maestre, E., Scavone, G. P., Smith, J.O. (2015) “Digital modeling of string instrument bridge reflectance and body radiativity for sound synthesis by digital waveguides.” IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY, 18-21 October, pp. 1-5.
  • Damodaran, A., Mansour, H., Lessard, L., Scavone, G. and Suresh Babu, A. (2013) “Design, manufacturing and testing of a cylindrical drum-shell using a sandwich structure.” In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Composite Materials, Montreal, Canada, pp. 1153-1158.
  • Saitis, C., Giordano, B. L., Fritz, C. and Scavone, G. (2011) “Aspects of experimental design for the perceptual evaluation of violin qualities.” Canadian Acoustics, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 134–135.
  • Sinclair, S., Wanderley, M., Hayward, V. and Scavone, G. (2011) “Noise-free haptic interaction with a bowed-string acoustic model.” In IEEE – World Haptics Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Lee, J., Depalle, P. and Scavone, G. (2010) “Analysis / Synthesis of Rolling Sounds Using a Source-Filter Approach.” In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-10), Graz, Austria.
  • Kim, M. and Scavone, G. (2009) “Domain Decomposition Method for the Digital Waveguide Mesh.” In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY.
  • Sinclair, S., Scavone, G. and Wanderley, M. (2009) “Audio-haptic interaction with the digital waveguide bowed string.” In Proceedings of the 2009 International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, Canada, pp. 275-278.
  • Murphy, E., Lagrange, M., Scavone, G., Depalle, P. and Guastavino, C. (2008) “Perceptual Evaluation of a Real-time Synthesis Technique for Rolling Sounds.” In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Pisa, Italy.
  • Zadel, M. and Scavone, G. (2008) “Recent Developments in the Different Strokes Environment.” In Proceedings of 2008 International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, N. Ireland, pp. 1-4.
  • Scavone, G. and Whetsell, N. (2008) “The Music Technology Program at McGill University.” In Proceedings of 2008 International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, N. Ireland, pp. 327-330.
  • Lagrange, M., Scavone, G., and Depalle, P. (2008) “Time-Domain Analysis / Synthesis of the Excitation Signal in a Source / Filter Model of Contact Sounds.” In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Auditory Display, Paris, France.
  • Lefebvre, A. and Scavone, G. (2007) “Wind Instrument Acoustic Research in the Computational Acoustic Modeling Laboratory, McGill University”, Canadian Acoustics, 35, No. 3, pp. 52-53.
  • de Leon, S. and Scavone, G. (2007) “Coupled Time-Domain Simulation of Linear Acoustic Systems by Boundary Integration.” In Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Matthews, T. and Scavone, G. (2007) “An Online System for Viewing the Input Impedance of Saxophones.” In Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Barcelona, Spain.
  • da Silva, A., Kuehnelt, H. and Scavone, G. (2007) “A Brief Survey of the Lattice Boltzmann Method in Musical Acoustics.” In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain.
  • Zadel, M. and Scavone, G. (2006) “Laptop Performance: Techniques, Tools, and a New Interface Design,” In Proceedings of 2006 International Computer Music Conference, New Orleans, USA.
  • da Silva, A. and Scavone, G. (2005) “Characterizing Impedance of Woodwind Intruments with the Lattice-Boltzamnn Method,” In Proceedings of the 2005 Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music (SBCM), Belo Horizonte.
  • Scavone, G. and Cook, P.R. (2005) “RtMidi, RtAudio, and a Synthesis ToolKit (STK) Update,” In Proceedings of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 327-330.
  • da Silva, A., Wanderley, M. and Scavone, G. (2005) “On the Use of the Flute Air Jet as a Musical Control Variable,” In Proceedings of 2005 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-05), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 105-108.
  • Scavone, G. and Wanderley, M. (2004) “The Music Technology Program at McGill University,” In Proceedings of the 2004 International Computer Music Conference, Miami, USA, pp. 264-267.
  • Ben-Tal, O., Berger, J., Cook, B., Daniels, M., Scavone, G., and Cook, P. (2002) “SONART: The sonification application research toolbox.” In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Auditory Display, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Scavone, G., Lakatos, S., Cook, P. R., and Harbke, C. (2001) “Perceptual spaces for sound effects obtained with an interactive similarity rating program.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Perugia, Italy, pp. 487-490.
  • Scavone, G. and Lakatos, S. (2001) “Recent developments in woodwind instrument physical modeling.” In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, Rome, Italy.
  • Chafe, C., Wilson, S., Leistikow, R., Chisholm, D. and Scavone, G. (2000) “A simplified approach to high quality music and sound over IP.” In Proceedings of the COST G-6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Verona, Italy, pp. 159-163.
  • Lakatos, S., Scavone, G., and Cook, P. R. (2000) “Obtaining perceptual spaces for large numbers of complex sounds: Sensory, cognitive, and decisional constraints.” In C. Bonnet (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the International Psychophysics Society, pp. 245–250.
  • van Walstijn, M. and Scavone, G. (2000) "The wave digital tonehole model." In Proceedings of the 2000 International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, Germany, pp. 465-468.
  • Cook, P. R. and Scavone, G. (1999) "The Synthesis ToolKit (STK)." In Proceedings of the 1999 International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China, pp. 164–166.
  • Scavone, G. and Mathews, M. (1998) “The Musical Acoustics Research Library.” In Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Leavenworth, WA, pp. 359–363.
  • Scavone, G. (1995) “Digital waveguide modeling of the non-linear excitation of single-reed woodwind instruments.” In Proceedings of the 1995 International Computer Music Conference, Banff, Canada, pp. 521–524.
  • Scavone, G. (1995) “Digital waveguide modeling of air-driven reed generators for the synthesis of brass and woodwind instrument sounds.” In Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Canela, Brazil, pp. 132–138.
  • Scavone, G. and Cook, P. R. (1994) “Combined linear and non-linear periodic prediction in calibrating models of musical instruments to recordings.” In Proceedings of the 1994 International Computer Music Conference, Arhus, Denmark, pp. 433–434.

Published Conference Abstracts

  • Fu, L., Scavone, G. and Fritz, C. (2018) "How different strings affect violin qualities." 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 2018 Acoustics Week in Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, 5-9 November 2018, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 144, No. 3, p. 1890.
  • Kemp, C., Zheng, R., Chromik, R. and Scavone, G. (2017) “Investigating the elastic and creep behaviour of fiber cell-walls in Arundo Donax L using nanoindentation (A).” Proceedings of the Canadian Materials Science Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 20-23 June 2017.
  • Mansour, H., Woodhouse, J. and Scavone, G. (2016) "Accurate time-domain modeling of the bowed string (A)." 172nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 November - 2 December, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 140, p. 3036, invited presentation.
  • Kemp, C. and Scavone, G. (2014) “Vibrational evaluation of reeds (Arundo Donax L) via hierarchical microstructure analysis.” Presented at The 2014 Symposium on the Acoustics of Poro-Elastic Materials, 16-18 December, Stockholm, Sweden.