Book on
Edited by
Udo Zölzer
ISBN: 0-471-49078-4
John Wiley & Sons, 2002
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List of Authors
Daniel Arfib (born 1949) received his diploma as “ingénieur ECP” from the Ecole Centrale of Paris in 1971 and is a “docteur-ingénieur” (1977) and “docteur es sciences” (1983) from the Universite of Marseille II. After a few years in education or industry jobs, he has devoted his work to research, integrating the CNRS (national center for scientific research) in 1978 at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics (LMA) of Marseille (France). His main concern is to provide a combination of scientific and musical points on views on synthesis, transformation and interpretation of sounds using the computer as a tool, both as a researcher and a composer. As the chairman of the COST G6 action named “Digital Audio Effects” he has been in the middle of a galaxy of researchers working all around this subject. He also has a strong interest in the gesture and sound relationship, especially concerning the creativity in musical systems.
Xavier Amatriain was born in Barcelona in 1973. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the UPC (Barcelona) where he graduated in 1999. In the same year he joined the Music Technology Group in the Audiovisual Institute (Pompeu Fabra University). He is currently a lecturer at the same university where he teaches Software Engineering and Audio Signal Processing and is also a PhD candidate. His past research activities include participation in the MPEG-7 development task force as well as projects dealing with synthesis control and audio analysis. He is currently involved in research in the fields of spectral analysis and the development of new schemes for content-based synthesis and transformations.
Jordi Bonada studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Catalunya Polytechnic University of Barcelona (Spain) and graduated in 1997. In 1996 he joined the Music Technology Group of the Audiovisual Institute of the UPF as a researcher and developer in digital audio analysis and synthesis. Since 1999 he is a lecturer with the same university where he teaches Audio Signal Processing and is also a PhD candidate in informatics and Digital Communication. He is currently involved in research in the fields of spectral signal processing, especially in audio time-scaling and voice synthesis and modeling.
Giovanni De Poli is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Department of Electronics and Informatics of the University of Padova, where he teaches “Data structures and algorithms” and “Processing systems for Music”. He is the Director of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) of the University of Padova. He is a member of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music, member of the board of Directors of AIMI (Associazione Italiana di Informatica Musicale), member of the board of Directors of CIARM (Centro Interuniversitario di Acustica e Ricerca Musicale), member of the Scientific Committee of ACROE (Institut National Politechnique Grenoble), Associate Editor of the international Journal of New Music Research. His main research interests are in algorithms for sound synthesis and analysis, models for expressiveness in music, multimedia systems and human-computer interaction, preservation and restoration of audio documents. He is author of several scientific international publications, and served in the Scientific Committees of international conferences. He is coeditor of the books “Representations of Music Signals”, MIT Press 1991, “Musical Signal Processing”, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1996. Systems and research developed in his lab have been exploited in collaboration with digital musical instruments industry (GeneralMusic). He is owner of patents on digital music instruments.
Pierre Dutilleux graduated in thermal engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Industrielles et des Mines de Douai (ENSTIMD) in 1983 and in information processing from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et de Radioélectricité de Grenoble (ENSERG) in 1985. He developed audio and musical applications for the Syter real-time audio processing system designed at INA-GRM by J.-F.Allouis. After developing a set of audio processing algorithms as well as implementing the first wavelet analyzer on a digital signal processor, he got a Ph.D in acoustics and computer music from the university of Aix-Marseille II in 1991 under the direction of J.-C.Risset. From 1991 through 2000 he worked as a research and development engineer at the ZKM|Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe. There he planned computer and digital audio networks for a large digital-audio studio complex, and he introduced live electronics and physical modeling as tools for musical production. He contributed to multimedia works with composers such as K. Furukawa and M. Maiguashca. He designed and realized the AML|Architecture and Music Laboratory as an interactive museum installation. He is a german delegate of the Digital Audio Effects (DAFX) project. He defines himself as a “digital musical instrument builder”.
Gianpaolo Evangelista received the laurea in physics (summa cum laude) from the University of Napoli, Napoli, Italy, in 1984 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Since 1998 he has been a Scientific Adjunct with the Laboratory for Audiovisual Communications, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, on leave from the Department of Physical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, which he joined in 1995 as a Research Associate. From 1985 to 1986, he worked at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathematique et Acoustique Musicale (CEMAMu/CNET), Paris, France, where he contributed to the development of a DSP-based sound synthesis system, and from 1991 to 1994, he was a Research Engineer at the Microgravity Advanced Research and Support (MARS) Center, Napoli, where he was engaged in research in image processing applied to fluid motion analysis and material science. His interests include speech, music, and image processing; coding; wavelets; and multirate signal processing. Dr. Evangelista was a recipient of the Fulbright fellowship.
Florian Keiler was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1972. He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. As part of the study he spent 5 months at the King's College London in 1998. There he carried out research about speech coding based on linear predictive coding (LPC). He obtained his diploma degree in 1999. He is currently working on a Ph.D. degree at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. His main research field is near lossless and low-delay audio coding for a real-time implementation on a digital signal processor (DSP). He works also on musical aspects and audio effects related to LPC and high-resolution spectral analysis.
Alex Loscos received the B.S and M.S. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from Catalunya Polytechnic University, Barcelona, Spain, in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Informatics and Digital Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) of Barcelona. In 1997 he joined the Music Technology Group of the Audiovisual Institute of the UPF as a researcher and developer. In 1999 he became a member of the Technology Department of the UPF as lecturer and he is currently teaching and doing research in voice processing/recognition, digital audio analysis/synthesis and transformations, and statistical digital signal processing and modeling.
Davide Rocchesso (S'93-A'96) received the Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. His Ph.D. research involved the design of structures and algorithms based on feedback delay networks for sound processing applications. In 1994 and 1995, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Since 1991, he has been collaborating with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC), University of Padova as a Researcher and Live-Electronic Designer. Since 1998, he has been with the University of Verona, Italy, as an Assistant Professor. At the Dipartimento di Informatica of the University of Verona he coordinates the project “Sounding Object”, funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Disappearing Computer initiative. His main interests are in audio signal processing, physical modeling, sound reverberation and spatialization, multimedia systems, and human-computer interaction.
Mark Sandler (born 1955) is Professor of Signal Processing at Queen Mary University of London, where he moved in 2001 after 19 years at King's College London. He was founder and CEO of Insonify Ltd, an Internet Streaming Audio startup for 18 months. Mark received the BSc and PhD degrees from University of Essex, UK, in 1978 and 1984, respectively. He has published over 200 papers in journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IEE and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society. He has worked in Digital Audio for over 20 years on a wide variety of topics including: Digital Power amplification; Drum Synthesis; Chaos and Fractals for Analysis and Synthesis; Digital EQ; Wavelet Audio Codecs; Sigma-Delta Modulation & Direct Stream Digital technologies; Broadcast Quality Speech Coding; Internet Audio Streaming; automatic music transcription, 3D sound reproduction; processing in the compression domain, high quality audio compression, non-linear dynamics, time stretching. Living in London, he has a wife, Valerie and 3 children, Rachel, Julian and Abigail, aged 9, 7 and 5 respectively. A great deal of his spare time is happily taken up playing with the children or playing cricket.
Xavier Serra (born in 1959) is the director of the Audiovisual Institute (IUA) and the head of the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona, where he is also Associate Professor since 1994. He holds a Master degree in Music from Florida State University (1983), a Ph.D. in Computer Music from Stanford University (1989) and has worked as Chief Engineer in Yamaha Music Technologies USA, Inc. His research interests are in sound analysis and synthesis for music and other multimedia applications. Specifically, he is working with spectral models and their application to synthesis, processing, high quality coding, plus other music related problems such as: sound source separation, performance analysis and content-based retrieval of audio.
Todor Todoroff (born in 1963), is an electrical engineer with a specialization in telecommunications. He received a First Prize in Electroacoustic Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels as well as a higher diploma in Electroacoustic Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons in the class of Annette Vande Gorne. After having been researcher in the field of speech processing at the Free University of Brussels, he was during 5 years head of the Computer Music Research at the Polytechnic Faculty in Mons (Belgium) where he developed real-time software tools for processing and spatialization of sounds aimed at electroacoustic music composers in collaboration with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons. He collaborated on many occasions with IRCAM where his computer tools were used by composers Emmanuel Nunes, Luca Francesconi and Joshua Fineberg. His programs where used in Mons by composers like Leo Kupper, Robert Normandeau and Annette Vande Gorne. He continues his research within ARTeM where he developed a sound spatialization audio matrix and interactive systems for sound installations and dance performances. He is co-founder and president of ARTeM (Art, Research, Technology & Music) and FeBeME (Belgian Federation of Electroacoustic Music), administrator of NICE and member of the Bureau of ICEM. He is a Belgian representative of the European COST-G6 Action “Digital Audio effects”. His electroacoustic music shows a special interest for multiphony and sound spatialisation as well as for research into new forms of sound transformation. He composes music for concert, film, video, dance, theater and sound installation.
Udo Zölzer was born in Arolsen, Germany, in 1958. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree in electrical engineering from the University of Paderborn in 1985, the Dr.-Ingenieur degree from the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) in 1989 and completed a habilitation in Communications Engineering at the TUHH in 1997. Since 1999 he is a Professor and head of the Department of Signal Processing and Communications at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany. His research interests are audio and video signal processing and communications. He has worked as a consultant for several industry companies in the related fields. He is a member of the AES and the IEEE. In his free time he enjoys listening to music and playing guitar and piano.