Wednesday's seminar (13 May 3pm):
Title:
Making Sense of Music Therapy - Can Computational Music Analysis Help?
Speaker:
Elaine Streeter
Queen Mary University of London
Abstract:
Music therapists are keen to establish systematic evaluation methods to monitor their practice with patients who use musical improvisation to communicate. Is it possible to detect and quantify significant musical events from audio recordings of
music therapy improvisations using computational analysis? Examples of music therapy will illustrate what music therapists mean by the term 'significant musical event' . Examples of computational analysis in development will be presented from a 12 month proof
of concept project funded by the White Rose Health Technology Innovation Partnership.
Bio:
Elaine Streeter is a music therapist and visiting research associate at Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Digital Music. She is also a senior research fellow in music therapy at the department of music, University of York. Her early research
investigated the relevance of rhythm as an organising factor in children's language development and social interaction. She has worked extensively as a music therapist with children and adults with special needs and as a training therapist. She was a senior
lecturer at Roehampton Institute, Surrey University for many years, also a visiting professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 15 years where she trained music therapists and directed the arts therapies CPD programme. Her current PhD research
is on developing an evaluation tool for music therapists working in evidence based health settings.
Tim Murray Browne
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Centre for Digital Music (C4DM)
Electronic Engineering Department
Queen Mary University of London
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