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Publications

Here is a list with all our publications. The publications are open-access.

PhDs

  • Non-Iterative Numerical Simulation Techniques for Nonlinear String Vibration in Musical Acoustics, Ph.D Thesis (2025), R. Russo [.pdf]
  • From Accessible Musical Instruments Plates Characterization Towards an Analysis Framework for the Conservation of Historical Musical Instruments. Ph.D Thesis (2026), S. Duran [.pdf]
  • Open Methods for Digital Conservation of Musical Instruments, Ph.D Thesis (2026), M. Hamilton [.pdf]

2025

  • On the use of tonewood leftovers for the elastic constants estimation of musical instruments top plates, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, S. Duran, H. Tahvanainen, L. Ausiello and M. Ducceschi [.pdf]
  • Non-Dimensional Modal Analysis of Musical Instrument Plates, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, S. Duran, H. Tahvanainen and M. Ducceschi [DOI: 10.1121/10.0039882]
  • Augmentation of a Historical Harpsichord Keyboard Replica for Haptic-Enabled Interaction in Museum Exhibitions, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, M. Hamilton, M. Ducceschi, R. Livi, C. Vicens and A. McPherson [.pdf]
  • A Two-Register Haptic Interface for Articulated Control of Harpsichord Physical Models, Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2025, M. Hamilton, R. Russo, C. Webb and M. Ducceschi [.pdf]
  • Evaluating CPU, GPU, and FPGA Performance in the Context of Modal Reverberation: a Comparative Analysis, Frontiers in Signal Processing, R. Michon, M. Ducceschi, P. Cochard, T. Skare, C. J. Webb and R. Russo [.pdf]
  • Convergence Analysis and Relaxation Techniques for Modal Scalar Auxiliary Variable Methods Applied to Nonlinear Transverse String Vibration, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, R. Russo, C. J. Webb, M. Ducceschi and S. Bilbao [.pdf]
  • Efficient synthesis of large room impulse responses in the modal domain, Proceedings of 2025 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive, M. Ducceschi, C. J. Webb and G. Fratoni [.pdf]

2024

  • Role of shift constant in Energy Shifted SAV for Hamiltonian Systems, Proceedings of Journal of Physics: Conference Series, F. Zama, M. Ducceschi and S. Bilbao [.pdf]
  • A Method to Estimate The Rectangular Orthotropic Plate Elastic Constants Using Least-Squares and Chladni Patterns, Applied Acoustics, M. Ducceschi, S. Duran, H. Tahvanainen and L. Ausiello [.pdf]
  • Fast Simulation of the Kirchhoff-Carrier String with an Energy-Storing Boundary Condition Using a Scalar Auxiliary Variable Approach, IFAC-PapersOnLine, M. Ducceschi, A. Mousseau, S. Bilbao and R. Russo
  • Establishing a Benchmark for Comparative Analysis of Thin and Thick Plate Modal Frequencies: a Non-Dimensional Paradigm, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, S. Duran, H. Tahvanainen and M. Ducceschi [DOI: 10.3397/IN_2024_3682]
  • Affordable Wide-Band Measurement Ecosystem for Musical Acoustics Based on Electro-Dynamic Transducers, Acta Acustica, L. Ausiello, M. Ducceschi, S. Duran and B. Morrison [DOI: 10.1051/aacus/2024045]
  • Real-Time Guitar Synthesis, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, S. Bilbao, R. Russo, C. Webb and M. Ducceschi
  • Scalar Auxiliary Variable Techniques for Nonlinear Transverse String Vibration, Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, R. Russo, S. Bilbao and M. Ducceschi
  • MAGPIE: a web-based, open-source framework for plate vibration analysis, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, M. Hamilton, M. Ducceschi, A. Mousseau and S. Duran [.pdf]

2023

  • Real-time modal synthesis of nonlinearly interconnected networks, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, M. Ducceschi, S. Bilbao and C. Webb [.pdf]
  • Real-time gong synthesis, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, S. Bilbao, C. Webb, Z. Wang and M. Ducceschi [.pdf]
  • Models of musical string vibration, Acoustical Science and Technology, S. Bilbao and M. Ducceschi [.pdf]
  • Explicit exactly energy-conserving methods for Hamiltonian systems, Journal of Computational Physics, S. Bilbao, M. Ducceschi and F. Zama [.pdf]
  • Efficient simulation of the yaybahar using a modal approach, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, R. Russo, M. Ducceschi, S. Bilbao and others [.pdf]
  • Simulation of the Snare-Membrane Collision in Modal Form Using the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) Method, Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum 2023), M. Ducceschi, M. Hamilton and R. Russo [.pdf]
  • Efficient Simulation of Acoustic Physical Models with Nonlinear Dissipation, Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing with Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference, R. Russo, M. Ducceschi, S. Bilbao and M. Hamilton [.pdf]
  • Fast Estimation of Wood Elastic Constants Using Least-Squares, Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum 2023), S. Duran, M. Ducceschi, H. Tahvanainen and L. Ausiello [.pdf]
  • Variable Bracing Patterns to Tune Soundboards and Membrane Speakers, Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 2023, L. Ausiello, M. Pani, S. Duran and M. Ducceschi [.pdf]
  • Experimentally-Tuned Synthesis of a Thin Plate, Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 2023, S. Duran, M. Ducceschi, H. Tahvanainen, L. Ausiello and others [.pdf]

2022

  • Non-iterative simulation methods for virtual analog modelling, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, M. Ducceschi and S. Bilbao [.pdf]
  • Simulation of the geometrically exact nonlinear string via energy quadratisation, Journal of Sound and Vibration, M. Ducceschi and S. Bilbao [.pdf]
  • The coupled rooms of Odeo Cornaro (1534) as support for Renaissance musicians and soloists, Proceedings of 24th International Congress on acoustics, G. Fratoni, D. D’Orazio, M. Ducceschi, M. Garai and others [.pdf]
  • Real-time simulation of the struck piano string with geometrically exact nonlinearity via a scalar quadratic energy method, Proceedings of the 10th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, M. Ducceschi, S. Bilbao, C. J. Webb and others [.pdf]
  • Fast explicit algorithms for Hamiltonian numerical integration, Proceedings of the 10th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, S. Bilbao, M. Ducceschi and others [.pdf]
  • The Dynamic Grid: Time-varying parameters for musical instrument simulations based on finite-difference time-domain schemes, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, S. Willemsen, S. Bilbao, M. Ducceschi and S. Serafin [.pdf]
  • Efficient Simulation of the Bowed String in Modal Form, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, R. Russo, M. Ducceschi and S. Bilbao [.pdf]

2021

  • Real-Time Implementation of Non-Linear Physical Models with Modal Synthesis and Performance Analysis, Proceedings of 2nd Nordic Sound and Music Conference, A. Cerioli, M. Ducceschi, S. Serafin and others [.pdf]
  • A physical model of the trombone using dynamic grids for finite-difference schemes, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, S. Willemsen, S. Bilbao, M. Ducceschi and S. Serafin [.pdf]
  • Applications of port Hamiltonian methods to non-iterative stable simulations of the korg35 and moog 4-pole VCF, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, M. Danish, S. Bilbao and M. Ducceschi [.pdf]
  • Dynamic grids for finite-difference schemes in musical instrument simulations, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, S. Willemsen, S. Bilbao, M. Ducceschi and S. Serafin [.pdf]