“For several hundred years Western music has been based on composition and performance. Most attention has been focused on the conception and generation of sound, and very little on its propagation. Written notes are two-dimensional symbols of a three dimensional phenomenon. No matter how complex a system of notation or how real the illusion of depth, written music is trapped on a flat plane”
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A. Lucier “Careful listening is more
​important than making sounds happen” (1979)

Milestones
Edelstein incorporated the Sonic Crystal concept in some of his most recent works, for example the orchestral work “Cristal Argento I” which was premiered in 2011 in Switzerland and Germany by Basel Sinfonietta, and included processing of the live orchestra using response - impulse data obtained in a room based on Sonic Crystals.
THE PROJECT HAS HAD MANY IMPORTANT MILESTONES AND GENERATED MANY PUBLICATIONS

​2017
  • "Resonance switching in a large sonic crystal cavity", Applied Acoustics
 
  • "Sound spectrum influences auditory distance perception of sound sources located in a room environment", Frontiers in Psychology
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2016
  • "Broadband resonant cavity inside a two-dimensional sonic crystal". Applied Acoustics 
2015 
  • “Talk to Composers Forum" -  Hosted by Reiko Fueting. (Composition Faculty and Department Chair of Theory) Manhattan School of Music
 
  • "Talk to Composers Forum" -  Hosted by George Lewis (Vice-Chair, Department of Music) Columbia University
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2014
  • "Principal pitch of frequency-modulated tones with asymmetrical modulation waveform: A comparison of models". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
 
  • "A comparative study of saxophone multiphonics: musical, psychophysical and spectral analysis" Journal of New Music Research. 

2013
  • " Vocal caricatures: the fingerprints of speaker identity". Scientific Reports, 3.
 
  • "Shifts in the judgement of distance to a sound source in the presence of a sonic crystal" 21st International Congress on Acoustics ICA-ASA (Published on POMA). 

2012
  • "Comparative study of saxophone multiphonic tones. A possible perceptual categorization." Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. 
 
  • "The role of vision in auditory distance perception." Perception 41, no. 2  

2011
  • Oscar Edelstein received the prestigious award for outstanding artistic contribution from the Fondo Nacional de los Artes.
 
  • Oscar Edelstein premieres Cristal Argento I  in Basel, commissioned & performed by Basel Sinfonietta.

2010
  • "A Biophysical Model for Modulation Frequency Encoding in the Cochlear Nucleus". Journal of Physiology (Paris) 
 
  • "Modal analysis and transient response of a sonic crystal room". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Early Prototype - Sonic Crystals 
“Talk to Composers Forum” - Manhattan School of Music, 2015




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