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Group Members
Faculty
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Professor Barry Vercoe
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- Professor Barry Vercoe -
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- Professor of Media Arts & Sciences
- Music, Mind and Machine Group
- Research Interests
- Synthetic Listeners and Performers
- Education
- D.M.A. University of Michigan
- Birthplace
- New Zealand
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Professor Judy Brown
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- Professor Judy Brown -
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- Visiting Scientist, Music, Mind and Machine Group
- Professor of Physics Emerita, Wellesley College
- Research interests
- Marine mammal sound classification,musical perception by machines and humans, pitch tracking, performance limits, intonation, sound textures
- Education
- B.A. Rice University
- Ph.D. University of California (Berkeley)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay
- Interests
- Horses, golf, piano, art history, fun reading
- Birthplace
- Teague, Texas
- A favorite book
- You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett
- Some favorite music
- Dvorak - A Major Quintet
- Brahms - E minor Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4
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Professor Dale Joachim
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- Professor Dale Joachim -
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- Visiting Professor, Music, Mind and Machine Group
- Assistant Professor at Tulane University
- Research interests
- Adaptive Signal Processing, Audio processing, Learning from Environmental Audio
- Education
- Ph.D. (1998), and M.S. (1994) in Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University
- Interests
- now: Snowboarding
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, NY
- A favorite book
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Some favorite music
- difficult! If I Were A Bell - Miles Davis
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Students
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Mihir Sarkar
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- Mihir Sarkar -
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- Masters candidate in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Real-time online music collaboration, sound analysis & synthesis, audio reproduction enhancement, interactive multimedia systems, developmental technology
- Education
- Dipl. Ing., Computer Science, Electronics and Automatic Systems
- ESIEA, Paris, France, 1996
- Interests
- World music, travelling, skiing, cooking, organizing stuff
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Roots
- Pondicherry, India
- A favorite book
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- Some favorite music
- Dire Straits, Marillion, Nitin Sawhney, Shakti, Jean-Michel Jarre, Air,
- Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass – Passages
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Owen Meyers
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- Owen Meyers -
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- Masters candidate in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- > Synchronization and communication in live music performance using laptop computers
> Music Classification
> Music, Mood and Emotion
- Education
- B.Mus in Music Technology
- > McGill University, 2004
- Interests
- Laptop Rock. Piano. Snowboarding.
- Hometown
- Campbellford, Ontario, Canada
- Some favorite music
- Boards of Canada
- Massive Attack
- Jaga Jazzist
- Prefuse 73
- Tool, A Perfect Circle
- Rachmaninov (all concertos, preludes, morceaux, etc.)
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Cheng Zhi Anna Huang
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- Cheng Zhi Anna Huang -
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- Masters candidate in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Cross-Cultural Music Transformation
- Education
- B.M. in Music Composition and B.S. in Computer Science
- University of Southern California (USC)
- Interests
- Swimming
- Hometown
- Hong Kong
- Birthplace
- Boston, MA
- Some favorite music
- The Bad Plus
- Joshua Bell
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Wu-Hsi Li
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- Wu-Hsi Li -
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- Masters candidate in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- User Interface for Collect and Organize Social Tagging
Computational Neural System on Music Perception
- Education
- M.S. and B.S. in National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Electrical Engineering
- Interests
- Coffee (Making/Roasting), Badminton, Piano
- Hometown
- Taipei, Taiwan
- A favorite book
- A Song of the sad coffee shop, S.-L. Chu
- Some favorite music
- Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor
Chopin: Ballade No.4 in F Minor, Piano Concerto No.2 in F Minor
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G Major
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.2 in D Minor, Symphony No.5 in B flat Major
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Shostakovich: Symphony No.9 in E Flat Major, Op.70
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps, Three Movements of Petrushka (Piano Version)
and albums of Cheer Chen, a singer-songwriter in Taiwan
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Yang Yang
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- Yang Yang -
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- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Education
- Candidate for B.S. in Computer Science/B.S. in Mathematics (2007), MIT
- Interests
- Computer graphics, Musical software interfaces, Computer/Video game design
- Hometown
- Canton, China
- A favorite book
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
- Some favorite music
- Bach, Ravel, Stravinsky | Autechre, Bjork, Deerhoof
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Alumni
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