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The orofacial complex is the primarily link between the instrument and the instrumentalist when performing the musician's embouchure. The contact point is established between the saxophonist lower lip, the upper maxillary dentition and the mouthpiece. The functional demands of the saxophone player and consequent application of forces with an excessive pressure can significantly influence the orofacial structures. A thermographic evaluation was performed to an anatomical zone vital for the embouchure, such as the lip of the saxophonist. Substantial temperature changes occurred before and after playing saxophone. The specificity of the embouchure regarding the position of the lower lip inside the oral cavity, the anatomy and position of the central lower incisors can be some of the factors involved in the origin of the existing temperature differences on the thermographic evaluation.

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We present DIGItal sTeps (DIGIT), a system for assisting in the creation of footstep sounds in a post-production foley context—a practice that recreates all diegetic sounds for a moving image. The novelty behind DIGIT is the use of the acoustic (haptic) response of a gesture on a tangible interface as means for navigating and retrieving similar matches from a large database of annotated footstep sounds. While capturing the tactile expressiveness of the traditional sound foley practice in the exploration of physical objects, DIGIT streamlines the workflow of the audio post production environment for film or games by reducing its costly and time-consuming requirements. © 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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We present MusikVerb, a novel digital reverberation capable of adapting its output to the harmonic context of a live music performance. The proposed reverberation is aware of the harmonic content of an audio input signal and ‘tunes’ the reverberation output to its harmonic content using a spectral filtering technique. The dynamic behavior of MusikVerb avoids the sonic clutter of traditional reverberation, and most importantly, fosters creative endeavor by providing new expressive and musically-aware uses of reverberation. Despite its applicability to any input audio signal, the proposed effect has been designed primarily as a guitar pedal effect and a standalone software application. Copyright