https://www.shreyasmandre.com/tags/birdsong/ Recent content in Birdsong on Shreyas Mandre Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shreyasmandre.com/publications/mukherjee2017/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shreyasmandre.com/publications/mukherjee2017/ Birdsong is the product of the controlled generation of sound embodied in a neuromotor system. From a biophysical perspective, a natural question is that of the difficulty of producing birdsong. To address this, we built a biomimetic syrinx consisting of a stretched simple rubber tube through which air is blown, subject to localized mechanical squeezing with a linear actuator. A large static tension on the tube and small dynamic variations in the localized squeezing allow us to control transitions between three states: a quiescent state, a periodic state and a solitary wave state.