Diseño de instrumentos virtuales: El caso de la guitarra flamenca

Jagoba Santos Bengoechea; Carlos Duque

doi:10.5216/mh.v23.74380

Authors

Jagoba Santos Bengoechea Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, España, jagobamusika@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5493-7219
Carlos Duque City University, London, musicalia@musicalia.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3221-5896

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v23.74380

Keywords:

Virtual instruments, sound synthesis, sampling, acoustics, flamenco guitar

Abstract

This article is about how to create virtual instruments that emulate acoustic instruments. Through the study of the different synthesis and sampling techniques, I suggest that the latter is the most suitable for this purpose, given its static fidelity and potential for realism in the sounds it generates. Nonetheless, this technique also has important limitations that do not allow us to reach the desired level of perfection. Among the numerous existing acoustic instruments, I focus on the flamenco guitar, since to date there is no virtual instrument dedicated to it. In order to facilitate the understanding of the instrument, I offer an extensive study of its nature and timbre, as well as a breakdown of the steps to follow in the process of recording a virtual instrument that emulates this instrument.

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Author Biographies

Jagoba Santos Bengoechea, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, España, jagobamusika@gmail.com

Yago Santos was born in Bilbao in 1985. Self-taught with the guitar, Yago gained a scholarship from the AIE and the Provincial Council of Vizcaya to study flamenco guitar specialization at the Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville and the Barcelona Taller de Musics. During this period, he was a student of teachers such as Pedro Sierra, Eduardo Rebollar, Niño de Pura, Juan Gómez “Chicuelo” or Paco Cortés, among others. In 2015 he received a full scholarship from Berklee College of Music to study Master's in Global Jazz.

Carlos Duque, City University, London, musicalia@musicalia.com

Carlos Duque has a Ph.D. in Composition, a Master's in Composition (both from the City University of London) and a degree in Sociology specializing in Social Anthropology (UCM). He has taken specialization and postgraduate courses at the Berklee School of Music (Boston), University of Durham, UCM and UAH. He has composed and produced music for TVE, Telemadrid, Telecinco, TVG and for numerous audiovisual production companies. He has been Musical Setting Artist by opposition on TVE (since he is leaving to continue his career as a composer) and Musical Advisor for RNE.

He has been awarded in several composition contests, highlighting: Radio Clásica Radio Creation (2011), Francisco Escudero (2008), Cristóbal Halffter (2008), Frederic Mompou (1999) and Young Authors SGAE (1998). His works have premiered at the National Auditorium (Madrid), Nimes Theater (Nimes, France), LSO St. Lukes (London), International Contemporary Music Festival (Alicante), and in countries such as Japan, Germany and the USA. . His research focuses on the life and work of the composer Roberto Gerhard and on music for audiovisuals in both film and television. He has participated in the Roberto Gerhard Electronic Music research project as a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the University of Huddersfield. He is part of the organizing committee of the Roberto Gerhard International Conference. His publications include: The Influence of Electronic Music on Roberto Gerhard´s Symphony No. 4 ´New York´. (in The Roberto Gerhard Companion, Ashgate, London, 2014) and Serial and melodic evolution in the work of Roberto Gerhard. An explorer in the avant-gard (in Perspectives on Gerhard. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield).