After digitising the 1547 Trasuntino harpsichord, NEMUS turned to the room around it: a measured, two-dimensional spatial reverb of Museo San Colombano that lets the listener move continuously through the historic space in real time.

(image credit: Robert Mores, made available via his Zenodo repo) When you pluck a classical guitar, very little of what you hear is the string. The string fixes the pitch and the timing, but almost everything that makes one guitar sound unlike another happens afterwards: the vibration crosses the bridge into the body, the body […]

This is the central case study of the NEMUS project: the story of a single instrument that could not be restored, and what we did instead. The 1547 Alessandro Trasuntino harpsichord is among the oldest and most important Italian harpsichords in existence. It is also cracked, pierced, and silent. Rather than return it to playing […]

Most reverbs put you in a room and leave you there. This one lets you walk. It is our first attempt to extend the modal-reverberation framework into space — a reverb you can move through, continuously and in real time, for almost no more computation than standing still would cost. A shelter shaped like a […]