Dear colleagues,
together with colleagues at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) i'm currently pursuing a research project which tries to link subjective qualities of sound perception (so called personal constructs) to computable parameters describing audio signals (audio descriptors). The ultimate goal is to build musical interfaces that enable browsing through large sound archives by using intuitive notions for sound qualities instead of technical parameters.
If you want to help us on this endeavor you are kindly invited to direct your web browser to the online form
http://grrrr.org/test/classify
to grade some randomly chosen textural sounds in regard to qualities that have been identified as meaningful and somewhat universal in a previous phase of the project.
The form is available in English or German – use the language you are more comfortable with. You can pause and restart the grading process as you like – grading one sound takes about a minute.
For statistical reasons you should at least grade 15 sounds - however, as there are 100 sounds available, you don't necessarily have to stop at this number.
Thank you very much for your contribution!
all the best,
Thomas
The Research Department at Birmingham Conservatoire invites applications for a three-year full-time PhD studentship.
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A full-time bursary of £13,920 will be provided, and PhD fees will be covered by the University.
The studentship is offered for commencement in September 2011 in an area consonant with the research strategy at Birmingham Conservatoire. Areas of special relevance to our research include composition, interactive performance and live electronics, performance studies, music criticism, late medieval music theory, French and Italian Baroque, late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, film music and cognate studies.
Further details at http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire/research
Current part-time students may apply for a two- or three-year full-time programme.
Birmingham Conservatoire has a very lively research department. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise almost 50% of its research outputs were judged to be either world-leading or internationally excellent. It has awarded PhDs since 1993 and has an excellent completion rate.
Deadline for applications is Friday 13th May 2011
Interview date: Friday 3rd June 2011
For enquiries and application forms please contact:
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Birmingham
B3 3HG
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