The Future of Music | Sarah Dunne | TEDxBelvedere College Youth
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loy1iUYkHZw Video ID: Loy1iUYkHZw ============================================================ hello my name is Sarah Jan and this evening I'm giving a presentation on 3D printed insts this is an image of my granny in 2011 I visited her in hospital H where she just had hip replacement surgery um I at the time naively relayed a book that I've been reading thinking that it would make her feel better it's called rebuilt heavy coming Park computer made be more human the author relays a story uh true story where he lost hearing um during the flight and regained it through Cocker implant surgery similar to to neas Nicholas Negron the quote here like air and drinking water being digital would be noticed not only by its absence not by its presence or we could look at casone who also talks in a similar way talking about post- digital Technologies how it's sort of absorbed and becomes naturalized within our worlds granny was not pleased by the this um and um quite rightly so said that she wouldn't be borrowing that book great similar to the chip of thesias where it moves questions app pointed which an original becomes a replica granny wasn't in tused by the idea of her becoming part machine like and less of Granny so I understood that did bring up something because that is a a while away in 2011 I became just increasingly more interested in copying things and replacing things and in integrating things within my practice um I already had a PhD in Fine Art and I was interested in developing that a little bit further um in my art teaching practice I got really interested or more interested in casting mold making uh and repetition and repeated use of materials uh in different ways so we can see an image of that which I've clicked a little bit too far we can see here from the images that they're made using B making techniques and this is an old your iteration for it I was also interested in making neon signs and the idea of making something in repetition seemed really really interesting to me in music i' an interesting comparative sound study so I'll look at that in a moment we have an audio here which should be playing but it isn't okay I'll move on I became interested in h space is created for sound here we can see that there is the music violino in Italy this is created specifically for sound start of various instrument sounds for that H there's also uh Sonic sound Native Instruments have created midi files so you can sample the instrument and create a 3D printed instrument um potentially based on those sounds this was a fantastic project that was H created in 2017 and they asked for everybody in cron Italy to remain quite silent h during this time so there's lots of lots of stories of cafes trying to be as quiet as possible while they sample the instruments there's also lots and lots of uh historical evidence that looks at wood and VAR craftmanship and design and dimensions um as well as researcher bias within instrument making so I become again quite interested in that we could say why even think about replicating instruments when they're already there there is fragility as uh fragility issues and playability issues um a lot of the instruments degrade over time um stav himself who was the person who interested me had over a thousand instruments made in these time uh however only 500 or so remain today so I became interested in how I could conserve that here we go um I'd also noticed a gap in the research so um we have cheaper instruments today largely so and within that comes see maintenance issues so I was interest in addressing that Gap how could I create something that was relatively inexpensive U to buy that could that could actually um move Beyond these problems there was also a point of tension so I mentioned the St very instrument H the point of tension being a gap in the research in 2012 H Claudia Fritz created a double blind test for St various instruments and rather than saying the St very instruments were amazing it was quite the opposite the majority actually said these new instruments were sounded better and so they got to wear these cool glasses obviously making sure that they didn't they didn't see the instruments that they were playing so they were pure audio based for that and there was outrage at the time in the music world they demanded that it could had to be a fluke it had to be an outrage um and they should test again they did test again and they got very similar results for it so it did provve that there's probably two camps to be thinking about that there's a sustained belief in the Sonic qualities of older instruments from so but maybe that are Sonic preferences have changed so maybe questioning should we be should we be replicating these instruments have they gone beyond their time frame I had a few questions myself I formalized within a a Doctorate in Education music education and Trinity in 2017 and within those I explored three specific questions around technical specifications if I was to make uh 3D printed instruments H the perceptions of users whether it be teachers musicians or maybe students I suppose student musicians and perhaps any educational benefits within that there was also my own positionality I surely was techn positivistic H within my attitude however I was aware that there are limitations within it h here's a an ex um an exp poost everyone's talking about 3D printers H he the future we need to slow down I don't think we really nailed 2D printers yet let's not get ahead of ourselves so anybody who's been at the printer um first thing in the morning who's trying to print for school will yeah perhaps empathize with that I was also aware that there were already iterations of 3D printed musical instruments this is Plastic Fantastic it's the Pitts River Museum where they have looked at us as a kind of a conversation uh conservation rather Endeavor where they have a lot of requests from people to to um to take out instruments to play instruments that are too old perhaps to to play so they're using 3D printing to emulate them we should hopefully hear an audio of that in a moment or maybe we won't okay this is Chris evens um playing the instrument there are lovely visual aesthetic um qualities to this however the tonality is somewhat missing uh from it I had my own methodology and I'm hoping the sound might work for this next components um so for my methodology I was looking for an Irish context I am an Irish person um I have gone to Italy of course but um where would I fit within that what right have I to look at such instruments um and to find some sort of context within that I had looked at H the VOR request which is a request uh that was given to the academy the roare academy um briefly it stayed within its collection but then it was sold off to buy next door so we can have an idea of how much the instrument actually cost at that time and I was interested in trying to locate that to find that bringing the um kind of the team back together bringing it back to Ireland in some way in add digital form at least for that um so I looked at the different areas that it had ownership and dragged it down from within that I took some 3D scans did some modeling did some sound acoustic tests from there looking at the Sonic dimensions of it and hopefully we can see different variations of the modeling for that so it took lots and lots of time just to look at the interior CER there was plenty of measurements from the outside H however there was H somewhat limited uh 3D modeling of that so I took down to do that turn pass on [Music] so we can see the different isolations there uh the violing the original violin comes in many different parts H some say up to 90 Parts if you are um Counting every component of it h there as I mentioned before there's lots of SE seam and maintenance issues that occur due to uh it degrading I was interested in modeling that and actually eliminating some of those those issues uh the original one which you probably saw the right that I printed I thought it was fantastic until it was played and then I realized that the limitations of of how far I had gone and how much more that I needed to actually do in order to make something that was valuable something that was useful and something that people would want to play H that could compete in the market of of something that was already oversaturated all by obvious H made in a fa traditional manner for that I I consulted with instrument makers with or orchestral professionals uh with some teachers and with some students and we have a 3D virtual model of the violin chamber which moved into so we ended up making in two parts although it looks like it has seams it doesn't actually it's it's just um so it fits it's more invisible I suppose within the orchestra it integrates with things that are already there [Music] n [Music] [Music] so here we can see discrepancies between A and B our a is the the traditionally made instrument and the B is a 3D printed H violin um the different waveforms showing um that it's kind of a wider Spectrum for the 3D printage one but it still has viability um or it's certainly better than the first iteration of that um then I asked students and a teacher here [Music] yyo and JY [Music] and Miss [Music] curtain so I suppose concluding that in relation to the questions that I had asked ly um with regard to technical specifications and material properties there's lots and lots of factors U mostly kind of structural integrity and the acoustic properties were things that I focused on feedback that I receiv received back uh with regard to musician perception perceptions of values uh there were a lot of generational H values that were held by teachers and therefore brought on by students so the the idea of breaking that cycle wasn't necessarily as easy as as um having something new and seeing if it would take off so there were teacher perceptions and Valu so the PED pedagogical value the cost so H the one that was just being played here um has kind of cost about 50 to make uh using a carbon fiber 3D printed uh 3D printed C printer and for student perceptions and values I suppose trying to be trying to be the same as in not having things that are too different also within that there's also some educational implications of 3D printed instruments how they might fitted to steam uh how they might face that access and affordability Gap that is making access to musical instruments um somewhat more challenging um the idea of customizing the instrument so uh for me I was trying to make it an invisible instrument IE something that could be integrated with the orchestra and not feel different from that but that could be customized um and also to involve some Collaborative Learning and Entrepreneurship from that okay ra thank you for your time woohoo