Young researchers explore the boundaries of digital music

Published: 20 July 2005

On 23 and 24 July young researchers from all over the UK will discuss aspects of computing, sound and technology at the Digitial Music Research Network Summer Conference

In a two-day weekend conference on 23 and 24 July, young researchers from all over the UK will discuss aspects of computing, sound and technology at the Digitial Music Research Network (www.dmrn.org) Summer Conference hosted by the Centre for Music Technology at the University of Glasgow (cmt.gla.ac.uk).

Led by keynote addresses from digital music luminaries Professor Geraint Wiggins and David Mellor, the programme will also include a concert, a conference dinner, and two days of presentations. Participants will learn about "listening chairs" for deafened people, computer-based instrument design, and even explore a commuter's memory of soundscape, in a case study of the London Underground.

    Other presentation topics include:
  • Digital music content generation
  • Sound synthesis, virtual instruments
  • Audio analysis: machine recognition of music
  • Signal processing tools for music analysis
  • Music data structures and representations
  • Music notation, musicology
  • Psychoacoustics, perception, cognition of music and audio
  • Human computer interfacing for music and audio
  • Non-western musicology, analysis and performance.

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David Mellor
David Mellor is a writer and educator in the fields of Sound Engineering and Music Technology. His publications include many articles for wide ranging publications, from Audio Media, to Recording Engineer & Producer, and four books, including 'A Sound Person's Guide to Video' for Focal Press. He is also Course Manager of the City of Westminster College's Foundation Degree in Music Technology, and Course Director of Audio Masterclass, a specialist distance learning provider in audio education. David Mellor is also Publisher of the DMPML Music Production Music Library.

Professor Geraint A. Wiggins
Geraint A. Wiggins is Professor of Computing in the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Since 1987 he has been working in the area of artificial musical intelligence (most specifically, music representation and the use of symbolic reasoning systems in music), branching out in the early 1990s into the study of computational creativity, in which his most significant contribution has been the only extant formal framework for study and comparison of creative systems.
Geraint was educated first as a mathematician and computer scientist, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then, at doctoral level, in computational linguistics in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, and in musical composition in the Faculty of Music, at the University of Edinburgh.

A full programme can be found at: www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mps37/DMRNSummerConference05/

DMRN is an EPSRC funded network.

For more information contact the University Press office on 0141 330 3535

First published: 20 July 2005

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