ICSRiM
Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music
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Aims & Interests
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music aims to promote collaboration between artists and scientists and to drive, exploit and disseminate technological innovation in the field of musical sound research and its applications. More specifically, these aims are pursued in the following key areas:
1. Creative human-computer interactions
- by developing software which allows the performer to make a fuller use of the range of gestural information in the control of a suitably specified synthesis engine
- by researching and developing a polyphonic pitch-tracking system
- by developing novel algorithms for automated composition
- by developing software and integrating hardware for the tracking of performers
- by developing 3D computer models of artificial environments and virtual performers
- by developing a software package to concurrently edit digital video and audio streams in a multimedia environment
- by developing appropriate HCIs for the above
2. Analysis, synthesis and encoding of musical sound
- by developing new analytical software
- by developing software and hardware for sound synthesis
- by developing algorithms for the encoding and compression of data representing music and sound
- by developing an Optical Music Recognition system for hand-written manuscript
3. Applications of Music Psychology
- by conducting research into the perception and production of expressive features in performance (timing, dynamics, continuous modulations)
- by conducting research into the control and co-ordination of timing in performance
- by identifying and categorising acoustic and electroacoustic sound sources
- by developing research tools for collection and analysis of empirical data from musical performances
- by developing algorithmic tools for error identification and report
Personnel and Membership
Director: Dr Kia Ng
Deputy Directors: Dr Luke Windsor, Professor Roger Boyle (Computing)
Members
Dr Karen Burland
Professor David Cooper, Dean, Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communication
Dr Ewan Stefani
