Digital Music Research Network

Digital Music Research Network

EPSRC Network GR/R64810/01

Funded by
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Research Groups: International

See also: Research Groups: UK

Austrailia

Sonic Communications Res Grp, University of Canberra - Founded in 2004. Key Projects: Real time computational generation of large scale musical structure, Verbal and Sonic Interactivity, Australian Contemporary Jazz.
Key Staff: Prof. Roger Dean, Dr. Hazel Smith

Austria

Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI): Machine Learning and Data Mining Group - In the "Machine Learning and Music" project, AI methods are being used to study cognitive phenomena in the domain of tonal music.

Italy

C.S.C. - Centre of Computational Sonology - working on restoration of audio documents, tunning of new techniques of synthesis, analytical tools, techniques of sound spatialization, complex dynamic systems and analysis and morphing of expressive content in music performances.

Finland

Helsinki University of Technology (HUT): Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing - the main focus areas of recent research at the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing has been high-quality speech synthesis, modeling and natural-sounding synthesis of musical instruments, audio coding and perceptually-based audio signal processing, 3-dimensional and multichannel sound reproduction, and analysis of human speech production. The laboratory provides several different facilities for acoustical research, such as a large anechoic chamber and a listening room that fulfills the standards.

Tampere University of Technology: Audio Research Group - conducts research on audio content understanding, including speech, music and spatial analysis.

France

Bordeaux: LaBRI: Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

CNRS-LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, Marseille

IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique) - Research is structured around concerted projects, harmonising the most recent technology with the demands and logic of the field of music. It uses the best in scientific know-how and benefits from numerous external partnerships, as well as from effective applications of its results.

Japan

Tanaka & Sakai Lab - Research includes Auditory Scene Analysis for Music Signals. (OPTIMA project with Kashino).

See also:

The Netherlands

University of Amsterdam, Music Cognition Group - research in music cognition and empirical, computational, and cognitive musicology. The research aims to arrive at a cognitive science of music, with a special focus on its temporal aspects, such as rhythm, tempo and timing. The website contains papers with sound examples, movies and animations, archives, demonstrations, and other material.

Radboud University Nijmegen (was: University of Nijmegen), Music, Mind, Machine Group - computational modeling of music cognition.

Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI): Music, Mind, Machine Group - takes a multi-disciplinary approach, as musicologists, psychologists, and computer scientists work together to solve problems in music cognition research (hence the name "Music, Mind, Machine").

Poland

Sound and Vision Engineering Department - Technical University of Gdansk - teaching and research encompass such diverse areas as digital signal processing, microprocessor design, computer techniques for audio signal processing, acoustics of music, acoustics of speech, sound synthesis, electroacoustics, psychoacoustics, measurement and instrumentation, music theory, studio technology and sound reinforcement technology.

Spain

GAPS: Signal Processing Applications Group, Polytechnical University of Madrid

MTG: Music Technology Group, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona - includes work on audio processing technologies and their musical and multimedia applications. From the initial work on spectral modeling, the MTG is dedicated to sound synthesis, audio content processing, and other topics related to Music Technology research and experimentation.

USA

CCARH: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University - Founded in 1984, CCARH is engaged in the development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance

CCRMA: Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University - a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool.

CERL Sound Group - an informal research group that undertakes hardware/software development in digital audio signal processing and computer music. Current research areas include real-time algorithms, sinusoidal modeling, user interface hardware/software for music performance, airflow, and music notation.

CNMAT: Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley - an interdisciplinary research center, drawing participants from many UCB departments including physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, computer science, cognitive science and music.

Columbia University Computer Music Center

Computer Music Group, Carnegie Mellon University - conducts research in the areas of real-time control, acoustic signal processing, music synthesis, music understanding, and performance. In all of these areas, work is focused on issues of representation.

Communications and Signal Processing Lab, Drexel University