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Dear all,
Tomorrow, Friday, 16th March at 11:00am, Alexander Lerch will present the
seminar 'Music Technology for Music Production, Broadcast & DJing'.
The talk will take place in room 207 in the Electronic Engineering
building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
Directions on how to access the building can be found at
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus-map.php. If you are coming from
outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one is stuck
outside the doors. Details of future seminars can be found at
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.
All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video recording of
the seminar will be made available online after a few days.
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Friday's seminar (16th March, 11:00am):
Title:
Music Technology for Music Production, Broadcast & DJing
Speaker:
Alexander Lerch
Abstract:
zplane.development is a technology provider to the music industry. The
licensable portfolio includes music processing technology such as effects
and time-stretching/pitch-shifting as well as music analysis technology
including beat tracking, key detection, and classification approaches. The
talk will cover several zplane technologies and products; it will conclude
with current developments in the music software market.
Bio:
Alexander Lerch studied Telecommunications at the Technical University
Berlin and Tonmeister (Sound Engineering) at the University of the Arts
Berlin. He received his PhD on algorithmic music performance analysis from
the Technical University Berlin. In 2000, he co-founded the company
zplane.development, a research-driven technology provider for the music
industry. At zplane, he works on the design and implementation of
algorithms for music processing and music information retrieval. In
addition to his work at zplane, he lectures at the audio communications
department of the Technical University Berlin and has been actively
contributing to the MIR research field.
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