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Dear All,
Next Wednesday, 23 Nov at 3:00pm, Carmine Emanuele Cella will present the
seminar 'On symbolic representations and transformations of sound: the
theory of sound-types'.
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 experience
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not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are
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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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Wednesday's seminar (23 November, 3:00pm):
Title:
On symbolic representations and transformations of sound: the theory of
sound-types
Speaker:
Carmine Emanuele Cella
Abstract:
The theory of sound-types is a new representation method for musical
signals that, while being generic enough to be used for different signals,
fulfils by design the following requirements:
- signal-dependent semantics: the basis of the representation are inferred
from the signal, using learning techniques;
- scalability: it is possible to change the degree of abstraction in the
representation, ranging from the signal level to the symbolic-level in a
continuous manner; the degree of abstraction becomes a parameter of the
representation;
- weak invertibility: the representation method is able to generate the
represented signal; this possibility does not imply, however, that the
generated signal must be waveform-identical to the original one, but only
that perceptually relevant parts of it can be reconstructed (that's why it
is called weak);
- generativity: it is possible to generate sounds other than the original
one, according to some parameters in the domain of the representation that
can be estimated from a given signal or deliberately created. After the
presentation of the basic ideas, this talk will show a full
analysis-synthesis framework and some applications on real signals.
Bio:
Carmine Emanuele Cella studied at Conservatory of Music "G. Rossini" in
Italy getting diplomas in piano, computer music and composition; he also
studied mathematics and got a PhD in mathematical logic at the University
of Bologna working on symbolic representations of music.
As a composer he won many prizes, including the prestigious Petrassi prize
for composition, from the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio
Napolitano.
From 2007 to 2009 he had a job position as researcher at IRCAM in Paris in
the Analysis/Synthesis team and he is currently composer in residence in
the same institute.
C4DM Website : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html
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Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Room 105, Electronic Engineering Bldg
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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