Anatomy of Listening 2010
CMT Research Colloquium.
Friday, June 11 from 1000
Dr Steve Davismoon (Edinburgh Napier University) "Toward Fragmented Celestial Fanfares: an approach to computer-assisted musical composition."
Bill Evans (GU CMT) "The latest on the Microtonal WX7"
Dr Nick Bailey (GU CMT) "Audio Programming for Auralisation of Performance Gesture"
In a seminar previously delivered at Glasgow CMT, Paul Davis, coordinator of the Digital Audio Workstation project "Ardour", asserted that Programming is hard, Real-time programming is harder still, and Audio Programming is hardest of all. I will briefly survey the technical choices faced by those implementing audio applications. Examples are drawn from the requirements of the Microtonal WX7 project, and the Bogen Auralizer. There will be C++ code (but not too much). Don't say I didn't warn you!
Prof Graham Hair (GU CMT) "Current Musicology and its Others"
If there's time, I will offer a few remarks on this topic. A view of the interdisciplinary labyrinth and music (scurrilous tales from 35 years at the coalface).
Dr Jane Ginsborg (Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise & Director, Centre for Music Performance Research: Royal Northern College of Music) Jane Ginsborg's Research interests and projects: Past and present
Jennifer MacRitchie (GU CMT) "High entropy performance parameters as indicators of musical structure"
Referring to information theory where the least probable occurring values contain the most information, or a high entropy, the extremities of measurement in tempo, dynamics and physical movement from piano performances of Chopin preludes are compared to their position in the score. Results show performers' use of these parameters confirm that the extremes fall on places of structural importance within the pieces being performed.
Bryony Buck (GU CMT) "Perceiving Structure and Performers' Intent from Biological Motion"
The use of point-light displays allows the extraction of human biological motion, presented without extraneous contextual and environmental information that may influence perceptual interpretation. Johanssen (1973, 1976) demonstrated the use and importance of point-light displays in human perception. This method of stimuli presentation now lies at the crux of current research into human action, interaction and sensory integration studies (Petrini et.al., 2009; Thompson & Luck, 2008; Pollick et.al., 2002). I will give an introduction of why such stimulus presentation is useful within perceptual studies, as well as how point-light presentations can enhance research into music performance, perception and cognition. Finally I will briefly discuss how point-light displays may be applied to piano performance to further assess the structural information communicated through motion.
Dr Cordelia Hall & Dr John O'Donnell (GU Comp Sci & CMT) "Experimenting with a 'Bowing' Checker"
Graham Percival (GU CMT) "Automatic comparison of rhythmic difficulty in string quartets"