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Dear all,
On Wednesday, 3rd October at 2:00pm, Nicolas Gold will present the seminar
'What's stopping you? Getting "digital subs" into popular music
ensembles'.
Please note that the talk will take place in Eng 209 in the Electronic
Engineering building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS.
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Wednesday's seminar (3rd October, 2:00pm):
Title:
What's stopping you? Getting "digital subs" into popular music ensembles
Speaker:
Nicolas Gold
Abstract:
Popular music plays a central role in the lives of millions of people. It
motivates beginners, engages experienced musicians, and plays both
functional (e.g. churches) and non-functional (e.g. music festivals) roles
in many contexts. Forming and maintaining a popular music ensemble can be
challenging, particularly for part-time musicians who face other demands
on their time. Where an ensemble has a functional role, performing music
of consistent style and quality becomes imperative, yet the demands of
everyday life mean that it is not always possible to have a full
complement of musicians. Interactive music technology has the potential
to substitute for absent musicians to give a consistent musical output.
However, the technology to achieve this is not yet in a suitable form for
widespread adoption and use by musicians who are not experienced with
interactive music systems or who are unwilling or unable to work with
experimental technology.
In this seminar I will present some results from a recently completed
project that aimed to elicit the barriers (both technical and
non-technical) to the widespread adoption of "digital subs". The results
include a framework of adoption-related issues based on innovation
diffusion models, summary outcomes from a recent symposium that addressed
these issues in relation to popular music, and the results of a
feasibility study of distributed beat and chord tracking using multiple
iOS devices.
Bio:
Nicolas Gold is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at
University College London (UCL) and received his Ph.D. from the University
of Durham, UK, in 2000. He undertakes research in music computing,
software engineering and the digital humanities and has published widely
in these areas. He is a member of the Centre for Research in Evolution,
Search, and Testing (CREST), an affiliate member of the UCL Centre for
Digital Humanities, and an Associate of the AHRC Research Centre for
Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP).
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Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Room 104, Electronic Engineering Bldg
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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