We seek outstanding students for our 21 month Masters in Digital Musics at Dartmouth. This fully-funded program (tuition plus stipend) encourages interdisciplinary research and creative production at the intersection of digital music composition/performance, sonic and audiovisual arts, computer science and engineering, and music cognition and neuroscience.
Applications must be received by February 1st 2012.
Application requirements, online application form
Graduate Studies at Dartmouth
The Northeast Music Informatics Special Interest Group workshop brings together graduate students and faculty in the Northeast USA working on music, information, and computation.
In January 2012, the workshop is being hosted by Dartmouth’s Bregman Lab, with generous support from the Neukom Institute for Computational Science
Bregman Studio graduate students Jessica Thompson, Andy Sarroff, Qinguan Kong, and Spencer Topel, co-authored two submissions at this year’s Neural Information Processing Systems workshops in Granada, Spain.
Casey, M., Thompson, J., Kang, O., and Wheatley, T., “Timbre Population Codes for High-Level Categorization of Music”, Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation of Neuroimaging, Granada, Spain, December, 2011.
Kong, Q., Sarroff, A., Topel, S., and Casey, M., “Getting Into the Groove with Hierarchical Independent Component Analysis”, Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Machine Learning and Music Processing, Granada, Spain, December, 2011.
The six graduate students in the Bregman Masters program, and two Ph.D. students, will be attending ISMIR 2011 in Miami. Our students will present a total of 3 posters and 3 music works at the conference. Good luck, see you in Miami.
Bregman’s papers include:
See the ISMIR 2011 Web Site for more information, and to get PDFs of our papers.
Green Orpheus consists of all six of the graduate students in the digital music department: David Kant GR’12, Alex Dupuis GR’12, Alison Mattek GR’12, Ryan Maguire GR’13, Phillip Hermans GR’13 and Jessica Thompson GR’13.
The group plans to perform in various campus venues in the coming months, including One Wheelock and the Hopkins Center, but their most ambitious plan involves utilizing the Baker Tower bells in the spring.
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH 03755)
Professor Michael A. Casey, Department of Music, Department of Computer Science
Professor Mark Williams, Department of Film and Media Studies
ACTION (Audio-visual Cinematic Toolbox for Interaction, Organization, and Navigation): an open-source Python platform
The development of a platform that would support the computational analysis of film and other audio-video materials. The platform would allow such features as the automatic detection of shots and scenes, the analysis of soundtracks, and overall content analysis.
Digital Musics CS Ph.D. Student, Andy Sarroff, is the recipient of a fellowship from the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College. Andy will be working on the Search-By-Groove project, which is co-sponsored by Google Inc via a Faculty Research Award to Professor Michael Casey.
Congratulations from everyone at Dartmouth Digital Musics to Josh Hudelson (‘09) and Alex Wroten (‘09), who graduated from the program this past Sunday, June 12th, 2011. We wish you the best in your future endeavors and enjoyed having you with us these past two years.
To find out more about their work:
Joshua Hudelson: http://joshuahudelson.com/bio.html
Alex Wroten: http://www.alexwroten.com/
Shown here from left to right, Professor Michael Casey, Lecturer and Technical Director Spencer Topel, and and computer science PhD students Qingyuan Kong and Andy Sarroff. (photo by Joseph Mehling '69)
Digital Musics director Michael Casey and researchers from the Bregman Music and Audio Research Studio (BMARS) is named as the recipient of a Faculty Research Award from Google Inc, for the project “Search by Groove”, a project spanning several years at the studio aimed at creating a new search engine to find music tracks with similar rhythmic backgrounds in large audio databases.
Digital Musics student Alexander Dupuis premiered his piece All Hail the Dawn this May at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference in Oslo, Norway. The piece is an interactive audiovisual feedback loop mediated by a custom-built photosensitive oscillator instrument. Documentation of the piece can be viewed here.