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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: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: C4DM Seminar Announcement: Rob Toulson in ENG 209 on 21 July 2014 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:56:44 +0100 From: Jordan Smith <[log in to unmask]> To: Jordan Smith <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, c4dm <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Dear all, A reminder that Dr. Rob Toulson will give a C4DM Seminar on "Digital Music Innovation and Culture" next Monday. The abstract, previously TBA, is provided below. On 03/07/2014 00:40, Jordan Smith wrote: > Dear all, > > On Monday, July 21st at 2:00pm, Rob Toulson of Anglia Ruskin > University will speak on "Digital Music Innovation and Culture". > > This C4DM Seminar will take place in ENG 209 (the Engineering > building) at Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 > 4NS. > > Information on how to access the school 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 that I can provide > detailed directions and make sure you are not stuck outside. If you > wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list as an individual > recipient, please send me an email and I'll be happy to do so. > > Speaker: > > Rob Toulson > > Title: > > Digital Music Innovation and Culture > > Abstract: > > Our relationships with music is continuously evolving, predominantly owing to digital innovations relating to the creation, distribution and use of musical content. The 'user experience' is therefore rapidly changing, for both the user as a recording artist and the user as a music listener. In this seminar I will discuss our musical culture from both a creative and commercial viewpoint and talk specifically about two research case studies conduced at the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. The first case study is the novel iDrumTune application which can assist percussionists in tuning and benchmarking the sound of a drum kit. Having conducted a number of new studies into the acoustics of cylindrical drums, we have been able to develop a tuning aid specifically tailored for percussionists. The iDrumTune app has been well received by the music playing public and recording industry alike, and has generated a number of new avenues for research in percussion acoustics with respect to music genre, song key and tempo. The second research project looks at the music listener experience and how it has changed through the emergence (and decline) of analogue and digital music formats. In particular we have evaluated the 'album app' as a potential music format of the future, which can combine the artistic merits of vinyl records (eg. artwork, song lyrics and producer credits) with the functional benefits of digital platforms (eg. portability, rapid catalogue access and random play). Funded by NESTA's Digital R&D grant for the arts, this project showcases the album app 'Piano Ombre' by Francois and the Atlas Mountains as the first chart eligible music album for iOS devices. > > Bio: > > Dr Rob Toulson is Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy > Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He was > previously Director of the Sound and Audio Engineering Research Group > at Anglia Ruskin University. Rob is also a successful music producer > and recording, mixing and mastering engineer. In particular, he has > worked as recording and mix engineer on a number of albums for > Mediaeval Baebes, who have previously topped the UK classical album > chart. Rob has also worked collaboratively across a diverse range of > music genres including rock, metal, electronica, folk and pop. > > Dr Toulson is an active researcher in sound, audio and music > production fields, holding a first degree in Mechanical Engineering > and a PhD in Digital Signal Processing. He has a number of years' > experience working in the audio and electronics industries, as well as > teaching audio and music technology in Higher Education. Rob is > founder of the Cambridge regional branch of the Audio Engineering > Society and he is also a committee member of the AES British Section > and a Co-Chair of the Innovation in Music Conference. He is a Director > of both Half-ton Studios in Cambridge and High Barn Studios in Essex, > as well as Director of his own music production and audio software > development company, RT Sixty Ltd. Rob is the author of 'Fast and > Effective Embedded Systems Design: applying the ARM mbed' published by > Newnes in 2012. He is also inventor of the iDrumTune iPhone App, which > assists percussionists with drum tuning. >