HERON: a zournas digital virtual musical instrument

Authors:
Panagiotis Tzevelekos;Anastasia Georgaki;Georgios Kouroupetroglou
Affiliations:
University of Athens, Athens, Greece;University of Athens, Athens, Greece;University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The Virtual Zournas, a digital Virtual Musical Instrument (VMI) developed under the project HERON, following a physical modeling approach, is presented, along with a classification scheme of real double-reed woodwind zournas and their characteristic acoustic analysis. Use-case scenarios of VMI zournas are also given regarding different user groups, including composers, performers, music teachers and musical instrument craftsmen. Aesthetical issues, limitations of the current version and thoughts on the anthropological and technological character of such tools are also discussed.