Guest Speaker: Dr. Yao Wang
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of New York University
Title: An Overview of Medical Image Processing Research
Friday May 9th, 2014
35 W. 4th St – 6th Fl (conference room)
4PM
Reception to follow
Various Electroacoustic performances
NYU Global Center Auditorium (C95)
238 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012
Friday May 2nd, 2014
7:30 PM
Free and open to the public
New York University’s Society of Women in Technology (SWiTCH)
and Music and Audio Research Labs (MARL) Present:
Sensory Optimization: Technology for Augmenting Our Personal Environments
by Dr. Poppy Crum, Senior Scientist at Dolby Labs
Date: Friday April 25, 2014
Location: 35 W. 4th St. 6th Floor Conference Room
Time: 4PM
Our experience of the sensory world does not need to be constrained by our physical limitations. When navigating the environment our senses interact to perceive a robust non-veridical experience. Understanding these interactions and being able to define them perceptually and algorithmically allows technological developments that can facilitate sensory enhancement and optimization. Examples include use of targeted neuroplasticity to modify our internal experiences, wearable personalized technologies for sensory augmentation, and heightened virtual sensory experiences that elicit natural cross-modal percepts.
The song “Amazing”, written and produced by our very own NYU graduate David “Swagg R’celious” Harris (MM ’10) for Gospel artist Livre, recently reached #17 on the Mediabase Gospel Charts. It has now been on the Top Charts for 2 weeks according to the Mediabase Charts, and seems to be continuing to climb.
“When Brooklyn band Big Ups hitch up to London for the first time, there’s an intense sense of occasion surrounding their live debut. It’s strange, given that ‘Eighteen Hours of Static’ is a couple of months post-release. Songs on their first record are some two, three years old too. But that’s how these things work. Even when releases are key and timing’s sacred, great bands get their moment eventually…” Read more about NYU Music Tech Grads Big Ups and their first world tour here.
The Master’s thesis defense schedule is below. All presentations will be in the conference room on the 6th floor at 35 West 4th St.
At the end of each evening, there will be a 30 minute demo session.
| Monday, December 16 | ||
| Time | Student | Thesis title |
| 3:30 | Illia Balashov | Upmixing audio for mobile devices |
| 4:05 | David Bokil | Listener Preference for Music Processed with Dynamic Range Compression Across Different In-Ear Headphone Models and Music Samples |
| 4:40 | Hariharan Mohanraj | PET Brain Scan Sonification to Supplement the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 5:15-5:30 | BREAK | |
| 5:30 | Tsai-Yi Wu | Listening with Realism: Sound Stage Extension for Laptop Speakers |
| 6:05 | Seok Bin Oh | Live Electronic Music Performance: Dancers with Wearable Musical Instruments |
| 6:40-7:10 | DEMOS | |
| Tuesday, December 17 | ||
| Time | Student | Thesis title |
| 3:30 | Celeste Robinson | Portable Isolation Cube (P.I.C): A Portable Method for Isolating Audio for Single Microphone Recording |
| 4:05 | James Keary | A New Technique for Capturing True Coincidence in Ambisonic Microphone Arrays |
| 4:40 | Xenia Ghali | A Study of the Turntable in DJ Performance |
| 5:15 | Yongjin Hwang | The impact of electronic guitar amp placement on the timbre of recorded guitar sound in a small room |
| 5:50 | Douglass Moss | Give Life Back To Music: Segmented Tempo Variation Mapping Based on Song Structure |
| 6:25 | Tlacael Esparza | Computational Rhythm Similarity Development and Verification Through Deep Networks and Musically Motivated Analysis |
| 7:00 | Amar Lal | Towards Interaction with Audio Continuators: Creating New Music with Variable-Length Markov Chains Trained on Features Extracted from Audio |
| 7:35 | Ethan Hein | The Drum Loop |
| 8:10 | Yuan Wang | “Dislocation and Relocation”: Enhancing Expressivity of Interactive Music Performance with a Multidimensional Tactile Interface |
| 8:45-9:15 | DEMOS | |
The NYU Music Technology program in the Music and Performing Arts
Professions Department at the Steinhardt School recently hosted its
annual open house, Saturday the 18th of May, 3-6pm.
Attendees were treated to live performances in the James L. Dolan
Recording Studio, hands-on electronics projects, ambisonic
demonstrations and various poster presentations on the latest music
technology research. A recording competition sponsored by Avid was
held in the James L. Dolan Recording studio.
At the end of the 3-hour open house several students were recognized
for excellence in specific projects as well as academic achievement.
The NYU Music Technology program wishes to extend a thank you to the judges of the recording competition, as well as to Avid for the support and sponsorship of the recording competition. Judges: Brandie Lane, Tom Beyer, Allan Silverman, Isabel Diaz-Cassou, Tim Starnes, Tom Doczi, Stuart Argabright, Leszek Wojcik, Allan Tucker, and Joel Chadabe. Open House Mix Critique Panel: Jim Anderson, Joel Chadabe, Brandie Lane, and Elliot Scheiner. We wish to thank all who participated in and attended the open house, with an extra special thanks to Braxton Boren and Uri Nieto for organizing the event this year!
Date/Time: March 4, 2013, 8:00PM
Location: Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street
Directions: Subway to A/C/E/B/D/F/M to West 4th Street, N/R to 8th Street, 1 to Christopher Street/Sheridan Square
Admission: Free
Congratulations to those members of the NYU Music Technology Faculty, Students, and Alumni who’s work was honored at the 2013 Grammy Awards.