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Active Students and Faculty
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- Professor Barry Vercoe - email - web
- Professor of Media Arts & Sciences
- Research Interests
- Synthetic Listeners and Performers
- Education
- D.M.A. University of Michigan
- Birthplace
- New Zealand
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- Judy Brown - email - web
- Professor of Physics, Wellesley College
- Visiting Scientist, Machine Listening
Group
- Research interests
- 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
- Golf, piano, Paris architecture, fun
reading
- Birthplace
- Teague, Texas
- A favorite book
- Electrodynamics -- Griffiths
- Some favorite music
- Dvorak - A Major Quintet
- Brahms - E minor Sonata for Cello and
Piano
- Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4
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- Owen Meyers - email -
web
- 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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- Mihir Sarkar - email -
web
- 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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- Wei Chai - email -
web
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Music retrieval, music cognition, machine
learning and database systems
- Education
- S.M in Media Arts and Sciences
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2001
- S.M. Computer Science
- Peking University, 1999
- S.B. Computer Science
- Peking University, 1996
- Interests
- Music (tonal), Karaoke, Chinese calligraphy
and painting
- Grew up in
- Beijing, China
- A favorite book
- Xiao Ao Jiang Hu -- Jin Yong
- A favorite piece of music
- Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
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- Brian Whitman - email -
web
- Received Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences June
2005
- Research interests
- Language and music, music recommendation,
generalized synthesis
- Education
- Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences, Music Mind
and Machine Group
- MIT Media Lab
- M.S. Computer Science (Natural Language
Processing)
- Columbia University, 2001
- B.S. English Literature;
- B.S. Computer Science
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1999
(Highest Distinction)
- Interests
- Literature, duck watching, walking
about.
- Hometown
- Hillsdale, New Jersey
- A favorite book
- Vineland - Thomas
Pynchon
- Some favorite music
- Wire - "Outdoor Miner"
- Jim O'Rourke - "Women of the World"
- Elvis Costello - "Green
Shirt"
- Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
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- Víctor Adán - web
- Masters candidate in Media Arts and
Sciences
- Research interests
- music cognition, music automation.
- Education
- B.M. in Music Composition
- Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM]
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- Interests
- music, graphic design, architecture,
computer programming,...
- Birthplace
- Mexico City
- Some favorite books
- Le Petit Prince, Sait Exupéry
- Formalized Music, Xenakis
- Some favorite music
- Tetras, Xenakis
- Ishini'ioni, Estrada
- 7th symphony, Beethoven
- WTC, Bach
- Rite of Spring, Stravinsky
- Requiem, Mozart
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- John Harrison - email -
web
- Masters candidate in Media Arts and
Sciences
- Research interests
- music performance, music education, sound
perception, music cognition
- Education
- B.M. in Music Performance
- Cleveland
Institute of Music, 1994
- B.M. candidate
- Eastman School
of Music
- Concurrent studies in Computer
Science:
- Case Western
Reserve University, 1989-1992
- University of
Rochester, 1986-1989
- On leave
- Assistant Professor of Violin
- Wichita State
University, 1998-
- Concertmaster
- Wichita
Symphony Orchestra, 1998-
- Interests
- Bicycling, jazz & improvisation,
animals, politics
- A favorite book
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A
Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - Al
Franken
- Some favorite music
- Berg Lyric Suite, Bartok String Quartet
#4
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- Andrew McPherson - email
- Received M.Eng. in Electrical
Engineering June 2005
- Research interests
- Audio systems, signal processing, analog and digital electronics
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- Education
- M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering;
S.B. in Electrical Engineering
MIT, 2005
S.B. in Music
MIT, 2004
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- Interests
- Music composition, viola, speaker building, politics
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- A favorite book
- St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Some favorite music
- Hindemith - Mathis der Maler
Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Harbison - Partita
Beethoven - Late string quartets
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- Michael Mandel - email - web
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Research interests
- Machine listening, musical
transcription
- Education
- S.B. Candidate in Computer Science
- MIT, 2004
- Interests
- Saxophoning, bicycling, swimming,
tooling
- Hometown
- Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
- A favorite book
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Some favorite music
- Tenor Madness - Sonny Rollins
- Money Jungle - Ellington, Mingus and
Roach
- "I'll Remember April" from Mingus at
Antibes
- 2nd Symphony - Mahler
- The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky
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- Nyssim Lefford - email -
web
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Psychoacoustics, Internet-based tools for
recording engineers and producers, film scoring for
virtual environments
- Education
- S.M in Media Arts and Sciences
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2000
- B.M. Music Production and Engineering and
Film Scoring
- Berklee College of Music,
1995
- Interests
- Non-Western Music, Visual Arts
- Birthplace
- New York City, NY
- A favorite book
- A River Sutra -- Gita Mehta
- Some favorite music
- Janacek "Sinfonietta"
- Lou Reed "Heroin" (esp. 1967 recording from
the Velvet Underground & Nico)
- Youssou N'Dour the entire album
"Set"
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- Youngmoo Kim - email - web
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Singing voice parameterization and
re-synthesis,MPEG
- Education
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, M.A.
Music
- Stanford University, 1996
- B.S. (with distinction) Engineering, B.A.
Music
- Swarthmore College, 1993
- Interests
- Opera, golf, musical theater, Dallas
Cowboys, television
- Grew up in
- Champaign,IL
- A favorite book
- Harmony and Voice Leading -- Aldwell &
Schachter
- Some favorite music
- Bach Magnificat
- Beethoven Symphony #7
- Johannes Brahms 'Ein deutches
Requiem'
- Duran Duran 'Rio'
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- Paris Smaragdis - email - web
- Postodoctoral Associate in Perceptual
Computing
- Research interests
- Applications of information theory to
perception, self-organizing perceptual systems,
scene analysis algorithms.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Perceptual Computing
- MIT Media Laboratory, 2001
- S.M. in Media Technology
- MIT Media Laboratory, 1997
- B.M. Music Synthesis (Magna Cum
Laude)
- Berklee College of Music,
1995
- Interests
- My work of course!
- Hometown
- Hania, Greece
- Some favorite music
- Gyorgy Ligeti, Atmospheres
- Jaco Pastorius, Word of Mouth
- Lamb, Fear of Fours
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- F. Joseph Pompei - email -
web
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Physical acoustics, Psychoacoustics, spatial
audio
- Education
- M.M. Music Technology (with
distinction)
- Northwestern University
- B.S. Electrical Engineering
- Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
- Interests
- Working, Reading, Thinking,
Listening...
- (and biking in the snow)
- Formative years largely spent in
- Wayland, MA
- A favorite book
- Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
- Favorite music
- Anything real
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- Rebecca Reich - email -
web
- S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences
- Research interests
- Contextual optimization of sound
manipulation in movie theatres, Parametrizing
Musical Performances
- Education
- B. Eng., Electrical, Minor Arts
- McGill University, 2000
- Interests
- Classical Piano, Funk, Jogging
- Hometown
- Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
- A favorite book
- Oh the Places You Will Go -- Dr.
Seuss
- Some favorite music
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto
no.2
- Maceo Parker - Pass the Peas
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- Ricardo Garcia
- S.M. in Media Arts and
Sciences
- Research interests
- Sound synthesis techniques,
psychoacoustics, audio watermarking
- Education
- M.S. Music
Engineering
- University of Miami,
1999
- B.S. Electronic
Engineering
- Universidad Pontificia
Bolivariana, 1996
- Interests
- Keyboards, Se~nal Nocturna
(my former band), reading, talking
- Grew up in
- Medellin, Colombia (South
America)
- A favorite book
- El libro gordo de
Petete
- Some favorite music
- Enjoy the Silence (Depeche
Mode)
- Take on me
(A-HA)
- Tren al Sur (Los
Prisioneros)
- J.C.
Olsson
- M.Eng. in Electrical
Engineering
- Research interests
- Synthesis of complex
auditory research interests descriptions
- Education
- S.B. Electrical
Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 2000
- Interests
- Napster, high-fiber foods,
my dog Julie
- Birthplace
- Jersey, the garden
state
- A favorite book
- "Jersey, the Garden
State"
- Some favorite music
- Radiohead - Fake Plastic
Trees
- Eric Scheirer
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 2000
- Research interests
- Music-analysis systems,
synthetic listeners, structured audio
- Education
- S.M. Media Arts and
Sciences
- MIT Media Laboratory,
1995
- B.A. Computer Science (cum
laude), B.A. Linguistics
- Cornell University,
1993
- Interests
- Jazz, art, sports, cooking,
talk.bizarre
- Boyhood home
- Annandale, VA,
USA
- A favorite book
- Beneath the Underdog --
Charles Mingus
- Dr. Keith
Martin
- Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering, 1999
- Research interests
- Auditory object recognition,
musical instrument acoustics, Computational Auditory
Scene Analysis, spatial hearing
- Education
- S.M. Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1995
- B.S. (with distinction)
Electrical Engineering
- Cornell University,
1993
- Interests
- Music, guitar, books,
outdoors
- Old homestead
- Kingston, MA
- A favorite book
- The Stranger -- Albert
Camus
- Dr. Michael
Casey
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 1998
- Research interests
- Generalized timbre and sound
recognition, music composition and production
technologies, statistical basis functions, technology and
culture
- Education
- Ph.D. Media Arts and
Sciences
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1998
- A.M. Electroacoustic
Music
- Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH, 1992
- B.A. (with Honours)
Music
- University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK, 1990
- Interests
- Composition
(Prix Residence Bourges 1992, Newcomp Prize 1991),
Trombone (Grade VIII Distinction Royal Schools of Music,
UK), Jazz, Avant-Guard Music, Ambient
Music
- Old homestead
- Enderby, Leicestershire,
UK
- A favorite book
- From Dawn to Decadence --
Jaques Barzun
- Dr. Bill
Gardner
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 1997
- Research interests
- Spatial audio synthesis,
room acoustics, reverberation perception
- Education
- Ph.D. Media Arts and
Sciences
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1997
- M.S. Media Arts and
Sciences
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1992
- B.S. Computer Science and
Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1982
- Interests
- Playing guitar, basketball,
ice hockey, bicycling
- Birthplace
- Meriden, CT
- A favorite book
- Lord of Darkness -- Robert
Silverberg
- Dr. Dan
Ellis
- Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering, 1996
- Research interests
- Computational Auditory Scene
Analysis, design environments
- Education
- M.S. Electrical
Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1992
- B.A.
Engineering
- Cambridge University,
England, 1987
- Interests
- Music, books, fine
art.
- Birthplace
- Southsea,
England
- A favorite book
- Kleinzeit -- Russell
Hoban
- Jonathan
Feldman
- S.M. candidate in Media Arts
and Sciences
- Research interests
- machine analysis of jazz
performance
- Education
- B.Sc. Computer Science (Cum
Laude)
- McGill University,
1996
- Interests
- jazz, sailing, swimming,
cooking, art
- Birthplace
- Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada
- Adam
Lindsay
- S.M. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 1996
- Research interests
- Melodic information
processing, human performance
- Education
- S.B. Cognitive Science, S.B.
Music
- Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1994
- Interests
- Music, esoterica, cooking,
Macs
- Birthplace
- Syracuse, NY,
USA
- A favorite book
- The Mysterious Disappearance
of Leon (I mean Noel) -- Ellen Raskin
- Matt
Krom
- S.M. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 1996
- Research interests
- "High-level" human and
machine perception in general, vision-based musical
conducting
- Education
- B.A. Cum Laude Computer
Science
- Cornell University,
1993
- Interests
- Cooking, musical &
visual arts, cinema, language, fresh air
- Birthplace
- Valparaiso,
Indiana
- A favorite book
- A Natural History of the
Senses -- Diane Ackerman
- Nicolas
Saint-Arnaud
- S.M. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 1995
- Research interests
- Sound textures, sound
synthesis for music
- Education
- M.S.
Telecommunications
- Institut National de la
Recherche Scientifique - Telecommunications, Montreal,
1995
- B.Sc.A. Electrical
Engineering
- Universite Laval, Quebec,
1991
- Interests
- Sailing, scuba-diving,
reading, traveling
- Birthplace
- Quebec City,
Quebec
- A favorite book
- Brave New World -- Aldous
Huxley
- Jeff
Bilmes
- S.M. in Media Arts and
Sciences, 1993