- Research
Andre Almeida
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Department:
Teaching:
September 2009 - August 2013
Teaching in acoustics degree (Univ. de Maine): Electricity, Signal processing, Sound perception and Music Acoustics
July 2008 - November 2008
March 2008 - June 2008
February 2000 - August 2000
February 1998 - August 1998
Role(s):
Education:
January 2001 - June 2006
Écoulements dans les Anches Doubles pour application à la Synthèse par Modèle Physique
(Physical models of double reeds applied to sound synthesis)
Thesis director: Prof. Xavier Rodet
September 1994 - June 1999
(Physics Engineering, 5-year undergraduate studies) 16/20
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Research Interests:
Music Acoustics: reed instruments, voice acoustics, acoustic signal processing
Music perception: sound transients
Dynamical systems: Transient apsects
Honours, Awards and Memberships:
December 2009 - December 2012
January 2001 - December 2004
April 2004
Participation in the International Congress of Acoustics 2004 - Kyoto, Japan and International Symposium on Musical Acoustics 2004 - Nara, Japan
October 1999 - September 2000
(Non-linear Dynamics Group)
Predicting radiation doses in the internal van Allen belt
with Prof. Rui Alves Pires
Selected Publications:
Almeida, A., Schubert, E., Smith, J., & Wolfe, J. (2017).
"Brightness scaling of periodic tones." Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 79(7), 1892-1896.
doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1394-6
Almeida, A., Li, W., Smith, J. R., & Wolfe, J. (2017).
"The mechanism producing initial transients on the clarinet." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(6), 3376-3386.
doi:10.1121/1.5014036
Baptiste Bergeot, André Almeida, Christophe Vergez, Bruno Gazengel
"Response of an artificially blown clarinet to different blowing pressure profiles" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 135 (1) (Aug 2014) 479-490
JASA On-line. Free version (arXiv)
André Almeida, David George, Joe Wolfe, John Smith
"The clarinet: How blowing pressure, lip force, lip position and reed 'hardness' affect pitch, sound level and spectrum" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134 (3) (Aug 2013) 2247-2255
JASA On-line. Free version: 
Baptiste Bergeot, André Almeida, Christophe Vergez, Bruno Gazengel
"Prediction of the dynamic oscillation threshold in a clarinet model with a linearly increasing blowing pressure: Influence of noise" Nonlinear Dynamics 74 (3) (2013) 591-605 Elsevier On-line. Free version (arXiv)
Baptiste Bergeot, André Almeida, Christophe Vergez, Bruno Gazengel
"Prediction of the dynamic oscillation threshold in a clarinet model with a linearly increasing blowing pressure." Nonlinear Dynamics 73 (1-2) (Jul 2013) 521-534 Elsevier On-line. Free version (arXiv)
François Blanc, Benoit Fabre, Nicolas Montgermont, Patricio De La Cuadra, André Almeida
"Scaling of flute-like instruments: An analysis from the point of view of the hydrodynamic instability of the jet." Acta Acustica united with Acustica 96 (4) (Sep 2010) 642-653 Ingenta Connect. Free version (arXiv)
André Almeida, Renee Chow, John Smith, Joe Wolfe
"The kinetics and acoustics of fingering and note transitions on the flute" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126 (3) (Sep 2009) 1521-1529 JASA On-line. Free version (arXiv)
André Almeida, Christophe Vergez, Xavier Rodet, René Caussé
"Experimental investigation of reed instrument functionning through image analysis of reed opening" Acustica 93 (2007) 645-658
André Almeida, Christophe Vergez, René Caussé
"Quasi-static non-linear characteristics of double-reed instruments" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121 (1) (2007) 536-546 arXiv
Christophe Vergez, André Almeida, René Caussé et Xavier Rodet
"Toward a simple physical model of double-reed musical instruments: influence of aero-dynamical losses in the embouchure on the coupling." Acustica 89 (2003) 964-973