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** The Music and Science list is managed by the Institute of Musical Research (www.music.sas.ac.uk) as a bulletin board and discussion forum for researchers working at the shared boundaries of science and music. ** MESSAGE FOLLOWS: Dear all, A reminder that tomorrow at 2pm, Sebastian Heise, Michael Hlatky, and Jörn Loviscach will present the seminar 'Novel User Interfaces for Audio Retrieval and Processing, Episode 2'. The seminar will take place in room 105 in the Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Directions of how to get to Queen Mary are available at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/c4dm-seminars.php as are details of future seminars. The room is under access control, so people from outside QM will need to contact C4DM to get in - the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 7480 and if I'm not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one's stuck outside the doors. All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video recording of the seminar will be streamed live and also made available online after a few days. Please see the above website for details. If you wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list, please send me an email and I'll be happy to do so. *Tomorrow's seminar (7 September, 2pm):* Title: /*Novel User Interfaces for Audio Retrieval and Processing, Episode 2*/ Speakers: *Sebastian Heise (h3e) Michael Hlatky (Accessive Tools) Jörn Loviscach (FH Bielefeld)* Abstract: Many tasks in digital music making, audio retrieval, and audio processing become chores, with only few occasions for inspiration and serendipity. This talk is a show & tell presentation of a range of prototypes of enhanced user interfaces developed by the presenters to bring back the fun. This includes: * Multiple modified mice, color-changing buttons used as controllers for music software (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sc8tXEiUA) * Automatically adjusting audio effects and synths to produce a given result (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brGbu3ByWRQ) * Projecting the fingering onto a bass guitar's fretboard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkS464yKJU) * A MIDI data editor that displays the actual waveforms of the individual notes and allows editing the data based on the acoustic result, not on the bare numbers (http://www.h3e.eu/images/Drums_Choir_hk_double.png) * Enabling tactile feedback on electronic music instruments - A loudspeaker as a drumhead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLkafr2Xp8) * Setting up complicated audio effects with only two buttons (http://www.accessive-tools.com/?page_id=425) Bios: Sebastian Heise (http://h3e.eu) is a HCI researcher, software developer and musician. He holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences Bremen and has worked with the Gauselman Group as sound designer for gambling machines. He has published a series of papers at AES conventions and the SIGCHI and SIGTEI conferences about novel user interfaces for audio applications. Michael Hlatky (http://www.accessive-tools.com) is an entrepreneur and advisor, who has previously worked for the Audi AG and Bang&Olufsen as a DSP researcher. He holds a Diploma degree from the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg and a Master's degree from the University of Applied Sciences Bremen. Jörn Loviscach (http://www.j3L7h.de) is a professor of technical mathematics and computer engineering at Fachhochschule Bielefeld (University of Applied Sciences), Germany. In his research, he aims at connecting human-computer interaction, visual computing, signal processing, machine learning, and electronics. He is a regular contributor to conferences such as SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, AES Convention, and ICMC. In addition, he has published numerous chapters in book series such as Game Programming Gems and ShaderX Programming. Emmanouil Benetos -- Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) Electronic Engineering Department Queen Mary, University of London [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7480 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997 C4DM Web-site : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html